Ebola Patient Dies, Post-Election Coverage Isn't Fearmongering

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From: The David Pakman Show

[Warpy]

1. Thank goodness, this is just very sad

He went downhill very quickly, from being just a little feverish to dead in days instead of weeks.

I keep wondering if there is a genetic component to this, a natural resistance like the one that allowed a few Europeans to survive the Black Death, one horrible disease Africans weren't cursed with.

It might explain the high death toll even with treatment in Africa, while Europeans are managing to survive with treatment.

[GeorgeGist]

3. He had a false negative Ebola test ...

‘We were celebrating. .?.?. Then everything fell apart’

When Martin Salia’s Ebola test came back negative, his friends and colleagues threw their arms around him. They shook his hand. They patted him on the back. They removed their protective gear and cried.

But when his symptoms remained nearly a week later, Salia took another test, on Nov. 10. This one came back positive, sending the Sierra Leonean doctor with ties to Maryland on a desperate, belated quest for treatment and forcing the colleagues who had embraced him into quarantine.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-doctors-mistaken-ebola-test-we-were-celebrating--then-everything-fell-apart/2014/11/16/946a84da-6dd5-11e4-a2c2-478179fd0489_story.html

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2. Did you for a minute think any different.

[Quantess]

4. No doubt in my mind

We have a corporate near-monopoly- run media. This was not a fluke.

[HereSince1628]

5. Well there was that one story about his false negative Ebola test

the story that talked about his co-workers in Africa shed their protectionand, iirc, hugged him.