Don't we have the best Betters ever!

This is one nurse in England and she has not infected anyone else. She has/had a chance to live in England. Ha she been left in Africa her chances of survival would have lessened.

Bringing our medical staff back here to the US to be treated was absolutely the right things to do and the results were great.

So they don't know yet that she hasn't infected anyone else. Since her own viral load has probably gone up, that would affect how contagious she is.

I agree that we had an obligation to our medical staff -- but we shouldn't ever minimize the danger of this disease.

What should we do when our citizens who sacrifice everything to help others in need are dying and need our help?

And this patient isn't from the US.

You are the best.

I've heard enough of this panicky bullshit from my s/o's right wing relatives and they won't answer either.

How many people were infected here and should we leave our brothers and sisters to die alone in a foreign country or not?

But you're spot on.

That is pure right wing stuff he/she is spouting there.

Sad that a "progressive" doesn't want to help those in third world countries...or even to help those who DO help in third world countries.

Those people are heroes, they're not risking everything for money or prestige, they give a damn.

That's what we're all supposed to do, as liberals, as human beings.

You really cracked her up. Thanks for the lulz.

helps keep it out of our country?

of course you don't.

see if they don't go, if others like them don't go, it spreads farther.

and it will get here, no two ways about it, unless experts and others work in those countries to stop its spread.

Real heart of gold you have there.

They also tend to come down with a very noticeable disease called Betters Syndrome, where they experience a desire to help others.

Have no fear though - You're immune to it.

Here's hoping she makes a full recovery.

Very sad

Although her case seems to be very unusual.

Her case isn't really rare, in terms of having live virus.

What is rare is that she has become so ill, but it was probably the plane ride and the pressure changes that did it. She must have had infection, and the pressure changes probably forced some of it out into the spaces around the brain. They have vaccinated some of the contacts already, so they know it is potentially infectious.

The case of the six-month sexual transmission in Liberia was similar. What is more frightening is that that particular survivor had had sex with another person just a bit earlier who didn't get it, leading to the hypothesis that viral levels are waxing and waning in these people. By the time they got around to testing him, they found only low levels in his semen, although the sequences that they got did tightly match the virus that killed the poor lady.

WHO now is recommending indefinite safe sex for male Ebola survivors.

God bless this woman. She was so brave to do what she could and risk her life to help others.

Immune deficiency viruses have a tendency to recur when you are under stress.

Shingles is like that, as is mononucleosis.

Have mercy. I hope the poor woman survives!