Friday 8 August 2014

Even After Recovering, An Ebola Victim Stays Contagious For 7 Weeks After He Is Cured?


I read this in one of the comments on a post on Yahoo and I was shocked.

Remember, even in it's present hard-to-catch form, a man who recovers from this stays contagious for seven weeks after he is cured, through a sexual contact. Sperm can carry the EBOLA virus that long.
For the 10 to 40% who survive EBOLA, then, the men are walking time bombs for almost two months. Men working far from their home villages, having sex with part-time prostitutes is how AIDS spread all over Africa.
This virus could mutate, and become easier to catch. This is what happens to another virus, the 'bird flu' virus. When it mutates, then it gets easier for people to catch it.
That is what caused the huge flu outbreak during WWl, a bird virus that mutated.
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We really need to be careful how we handle this situation.

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