Dr. Phillip Smith says ebola kills by dehydration, not hemorage.....on NPR

I was listening to NPR about 15-20 min ago, and they were interviewing Dr. Phillip Smith who is the Medical Director at the Biocontainment Center in Nebraska. He was asked why the death rate is so low in America vs Africa and Dr. Smith replied that [paraprashing, was driving and couldn't write down word for word] "we are able to monitor their fluid levels,electrolytes things like that. When people get ebola their organs are damaged due to dehydration and we can combat that with treatments such as IV fluids. This will be the lesson for Africa". This was on 90.1 our local NPR station (eastern VA). Dr. Smith was also talking about how he has been ostracized at work; and the daughter of one of his employees was uninvited to a birthday party due to them working with ebola. 😢 He also mentioned (briefly) that NY ebola dr's status is now stable.

I thought the organ damage was caused by everything in your body bleeding out.....but I guess a banana bag can cure that now.....

Last Edited by Ziggyspaz86 on 11/02/2014 07:01 PM