Not All Infected Ebola Patients Show Symptoms | Underground Medic.
On June 26th 2000 The New York Times carried an article by Lawrence Altman regarding asymptomatic Ebola patients carrying, and possibly spreading the disease.
The piece was based on research by African and European scientists regarding a study published in The Lancet. The team was headed by Dr. E. M. Leroy of Franceville, Gabon.
The study followed 24 ( Altman says 25 people, but the original piece states 24) people who had lived with Ebola patients. They had cared for them, and often buried them, all without the use of gloves and the protective clothing we have come to associate with the disease.
Blood tests at the time, this was 1996, didn’t detect the virus in the blood of the carers, but Leroy suspected it was there. He used polymerase chain reaction to isolate the virus and found it was, as he suspected, present in these people, albeit in small amounts.
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