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NutmegYankee

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3. It's that way with most diseases. Once you've had it you have some immunity.
Reply to Electric Monk (Reply #2)
Sat Nov 1, 2014, 05:39 PM
Nov 2014

The immune system remembers the disease markers and is always ready to wipe it out. This is how vaccines work.

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Condition upgraded for NYC doctor with Ebola [View all] TomCADem Nov 2014 OP
The GOP won't like this news.... Turbineguy Nov 2014 #1
Are people who survive Ebola then immune? It would seem so, for a time at least. Electric Monk Nov 2014 #2
It's that way with most diseases. Once you've had it you have some immunity. NutmegYankee Nov 2014 #3
And that's a good thing :) This doctor could go right back to the front lines if he wants Electric Monk Nov 2014 #5
Other than he needs to clean up well to avoid infecting others, but yes, he could. NutmegYankee Nov 2014 #6
Of course. nt Electric Monk Nov 2014 #7
The panic-mongers are hoping against hope that he infected somebody else alcibiades_mystery Nov 2014 #4
+ 1000 notadmblnd Nov 2014 #8
They were hoping Ebola would be more than the dud it was FLPanhandle Nov 2014 #9
Yeah. How inconvienient is that? Science, fact, and truth bites them again! Elmer S. E. Dump Nov 2014 #10
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