MHSC
Senior Moderator
Its a long article where he answers questions, here is a sampling of the questions.
Is transfusing blood from an Ebola survivor a possible treatment? Wouldn't the blood need to be screened for many other diseases prevalent in West Africa, like Lassa fever? And we hear from Doctors Without Borders that there aren't enough staff just to put regular old IVs in patients to hydrate them.
You've spent a lot of time in Guinea. Do you have any insights into the anger and suspicion that apparently prevails in southern Guinea, where a team of health workers and journalists were attacked and killed?
How do health care workers, who we're told are incredibly proficient at their job, end up getting infected with Ebola? Is there something going on that we don't completely understand?
This one is my favorite, and the first honest response I have heard.
If you were treating Ebola patients in this country with our facilities and expertise, what do you think the survival rate would be?
Is there potential for transmission in public transit, if someone with Ebola were to shed blood or sweat and another passenger came in contact with the blood or sweat?
How much do we in fact know about transmission?
How long can the virus exist outside a human host?
How could we get ahead of the outbreak?
Is it true that the current outbreak was identified as Ebola because patients were hiccuping, and that's a symptom?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandso...iel-bausch-knows-the-ebola-virus-all-too-well
Is transfusing blood from an Ebola survivor a possible treatment? Wouldn't the blood need to be screened for many other diseases prevalent in West Africa, like Lassa fever? And we hear from Doctors Without Borders that there aren't enough staff just to put regular old IVs in patients to hydrate them.
You've spent a lot of time in Guinea. Do you have any insights into the anger and suspicion that apparently prevails in southern Guinea, where a team of health workers and journalists were attacked and killed?
How do health care workers, who we're told are incredibly proficient at their job, end up getting infected with Ebola? Is there something going on that we don't completely understand?
This one is my favorite, and the first honest response I have heard.
If you were treating Ebola patients in this country with our facilities and expertise, what do you think the survival rate would be?
Is there potential for transmission in public transit, if someone with Ebola were to shed blood or sweat and another passenger came in contact with the blood or sweat?
How much do we in fact know about transmission?
How long can the virus exist outside a human host?
How could we get ahead of the outbreak?
Is it true that the current outbreak was identified as Ebola because patients were hiccuping, and that's a symptom?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandso...iel-bausch-knows-the-ebola-virus-all-too-well