Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Has anyone heard an update on this story?
last I heard was what I posted in # 35....
(and psst---I don't believe them.........)
Has anyone heard an update on this story?
Absolutely true! Patrick Sawyer tested negative initially. Where is he? Oh, yeah, he's dead....of Ebola. The tests are not accurate and have a very high rate of false negatives until later in the active stage of disease.
Thanks. Maybe it was something I read over at Pixie's forum, but I could have SWORN I read that you have to allow time for a culture of virus to grow, and that takes about 24 hours.
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Testing and tracing
Blood samples from the Dallas patient were sent to both the CDC and to the Texas public health lab in Austin, which has a team specially trained to handle high-risk specimens, said Dr. David Lakey, director of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
He said the lab received the blood sample at 9 a.m. and at 1:22 p.m. got the result back showing the sample was positive for Ebola Zaire, the strain that has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.