By John Bacon
Salia's wife, Isatu, (click here) says her husband tested negative for the virus in the early days of his illness. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said "false negative" test results are possible in the first days of symptoms when the viral load is relatively low. The tests do not represent a health risk to others, he said, because people with low levels of the virus are not very contagious....
There are many diseases and medical conditions that test false when indeed there is a change in the internal environment of the body. Women know that pregnancy tests are not always accurate and will result negative. Walking stress tests will result negative for men when indeed they have a heart condition.
There is nothing new here. One of the earlier physicians, a woman whom's name escapes me, tested negative for Ebola and was first treated for malaria. This is not new.
The BEST indicator of SUSPICION are symptoms, moderately high fever (within what is considered a cardinal sign of infection, but, the fever is not deadly itself) accompanied by fatigue.
This virus remains to be consistent in it's manifestation. It is the symptoms in the early stages of infection that results in emergent treatment that saves lives. In the picture he looks in very good health. Had he come to treatment earlier there is a far greater chance he would be alive today. We cannot afford to lose physicians, surgeons, nurses or anyone affiliated with the health care system. Without them we all fail.
This is a profound tragedy for the lives he will no longer save.
