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As Ebola spreads out of control in West Africa, the World Health Organization reports a black market in blood from Ebola survivors. The epidemic is killing up to 70 percent of those who get sick, but the thousands who have survived have blood teeming with antibodies that protect them against infection again.
Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly has donated serum to three other patients — fellow medical missionary Dr. Rick Sacra, NBC camera operator Ashoka Mukpo and Dallas nurse Nina Pham. No one knows if it’s helped, but in theory Brantly’s antibodies should have kick-started their immune responses.
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“There is limited evidence from past outbreaks that suggests there probably are quite a few people who get exposed, who get infected, without ever developing symptoms and without ever developing illness but they develop immunity,” said Lauren Ancel Meyers, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin.
In other words, Ebola might be acting like its own vaccine.
[Source NBC News]
On this first feature, we are going to do something that innumerate, propagandist Axis MSM mouthpieces unwilling and in most cases unable to do, which is compute the probability that Brantly’s blood type matched, for plasma transfusion purposes, the blood type of Sacra, Mukpo, and Pham. That probability, it turns out, is very low indeed.
originally posted by: Witness2008
a reply to: ketsuko
A+ can not donate to any negative blood type. Only A+ or AB+. No RH negative could ever receive RH positive blood.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: ~Lucidity
Well, that will be terrible if people will bleed the survivors for their plasma, but in this world everything is possible.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: Witness2008
a reply to: ketsuko
A+ can not donate to any negative blood type. Only A+ or AB+. No RH negative could ever receive RH positive blood.
All I had read was that Brantly is A which is why I said "If Brantly is A-."
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Mitchell: Nancy, have you been asked to donate blood? I know Dr. Brantly was a good match for our own freelance camera person, Ashoka Mukpo.
Writebol: I have been asked to donate blood. I have not been a match for any of the patients
[Source]
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“There is limited evidence from past outbreaks that suggests there probably are quite a few people who get exposed, who get infected, without ever developing symptoms and without ever developing illness but they develop immunity,” said Lauren Ancel Meyers, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: badgerprints
I also read that is many children that have survived the ebola and now are orphans.
originally posted by: dreamingawake
Possibly coincides with the ten , up to fourteen percent, of people of European descent have immunity markers against AIDS, to as said even Ebola, due to exposure over time by the Black Plague. Areas in Africa, have groups of people that have immunities to Ebola, said to because of being exposed to Ebola in the environment over the years.