Ebola Virus Lurked In Survivor One Year Before Resurfacing To Reinfect

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Ebola mysteriously hid in a woman for more than a year before spreading
The study highlights the risk of Ebola “flare-ups” well after outbreaks declared over.

The researchers speculate that the woman survived an initial Ebola infection after caring for her brother but that the virus merely went into some mysterious, latent stage afterward. Then, after the birth of her baby in 2015, the virus flared. This, they suggest, makes sense because pregnancy dampens maternal immune responses—to avoid attacking the baby—and the immune system reignites shortly after delivery. This burst in inflammatory responses may have sparked the dormant Ebola into a symptomatic disease, which then spread to her husband and children.


----It came back and killed her son and infected her hubby and other kid.