> no cure
Sort of, their are treatments that increase survival rates significantly. Supportive hospital care might not seem as useful as a wonder pill, but an IV drip can make a huge difference.
Sort of, their are treatments that increase survival rates significantly. Supportive hospital care might not seem as useful as a wonder pill, but an IV drip can make a huge difference.
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/ask-well-immune-to...
Also bodes well for our ability to make a vaccine.
It also doesn't help that medical teams sometimes get attacked by locals.
> It also doesn't help that medical teams sometimes get attacked by locals
Who is attacking them for what reason? Anti-vacciners or something?
The last outbreak started from people eating infected bats. I'll have to read up on this one.
He certainly didn’t mention cannibalism. They were most concerned about the ritual washing before burial. Apparently the bodies are cleansed, bowels washed, etc. Given how Ebola spreads, this was virtually a guarantee that anyone handling the dead would contract the disease.
Their biggest successes were in teaching families how to use gloves, masks, and bleach. Any danger the CDC teams were in seemed to be mostly limited to political instability.