Originally Posted by chapped_lips
jdm....maybe you can ask your daughter if she has heard what treatment the Liberian patient will receive?
I ask this because the supply of ZMAPP is being reported as being zero and will take months to regenerate.
Will blood transfusions be used?

Only ask if you feel this will not violate any doctor-patient confidentiality and not put your daughter's job at risk.
Eventually some member of the press will ask the same question at a news conference.


They will more than likely throw a combination of anti-virals at it and it they have some available they will use blood (whit cells) to get antibodies into him. With a virus, there isn't much they can do other than supportive care. Keep him hydrated, keep him breathing, keep his fever down. His immune system will either kill him or save him.