The World Health Organization and Congolese authorities are proposing changes to...
DAKAR - The World Health Organization and Congolese authorities are proposing changes to how some Ebola patients are cared for, new guidelines show, after a patient’s death challenged the accepted medical theory that survivors are immune to reinfection.
“That was a big red flag event for all of us,” said Janet Diaz, who leads the World Health Organization’s clinical management team for the epidemic in Congo. But it is not yet known whether the woman received a false positive result the first time she was tested, experienced a relapse or was reinfected, health officials say.
Survivors who had mild cases of Ebola and those who were found to have low viral loads - or lower levels of the virus circulating in their blood - while infected “need to be carefully assessed, as they may be at risk for having incomplete immunity after infection,” the draft says. But the draft protocols being discussed by health authorities would bar some survivors from working in the contaminated red zone.
In response to the case, health authorities have reviewed the clinical histories of all Ebola survivors working with Ebola patients, the WHO’s Diaz said. They have also reminded treatment centers to ensure their employees are following biosafety rules.
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