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[quote=Anonymous]An interview with a Spanish physician who returned recently from SL:

"In Sierra Leone, Ebola is completely out of control. We are now able to provide patients with better care [...]But we still need much more. It is said that there are currently 5,000 cases, but there are many more. The numbers authorities put out are very low. Right now, in Sierra Leone, there may be more than 1,000 new cases each week. The World Health Organization thinks that by the end of the year there could be more than 10,000 each week. If the mortality rate is 60 percent, you can figure out the results.

...We met a father who had two kids with fever. The mother had died from Ebola. After finishing our analysis, the two kids were negative and he was positive. We sent him to the treatment center, and he took his children there because he had nowhere to leave them. The situation remains the same. He is infected, but has no symptoms, and the kids have fevers, but are not infected. Three days later, the father develops a fever and suddenly the three of them are infected. He had no fever, but he was infected, which destroys the theory that says that without fever there won't be contagion. In medicine, two and two rarely make four..."

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