re: #43 wheat-dogghazi

I just watched a CNN International BackStory report from the chief medical correspondent. Three important points she made:

* People who have recovered from ebola bounce back quickly to complete health.
* A nursing student cared for four members of her family who had contracted ebola, using homemade hazmat equipment made from plastic bags, rubber boots (gumboots, as they call them in Africa), and rubber gloves.
* Building isolation wards is an excellent response, but someone has to be in charge of those wards to deal with incoming patients efficiently.

One thing I’ve heard recently is that, unlike past Ebola outbreaks where the fatality rate ran as high as 90%, the current epidemic has been roughly 50%, mostly due to the better equipped hospitals in Africa being able to address early symptoms and combat dehydration in infected patients. So the idea of Ebola as a death sentence is wildly overstated.