Testing negative for Ebola is meaningless; the virus is not detectable for up to six weeks
by Mike Adams
NaturalNews.com
Monday, October 27, 2014
It’s too bad that many of the people debating the Ebola quarantine issue don’t know anything about virology. So far, the focus on New York’s reversal of its Ebola quarantine rule has centered on a single repeated claim: “The nurse tested NEGATIVE for Ebola!” Therefore she should be released, the logic goes.
Unfortunately, Ebola doesn’t work that way. A person who is carrying Ebola and replicating Ebola inside their own blood will test negative for Ebola for up to six weeks. The test won’t show a positive result until the virus has replicated to a sufficient quantity to be detectable.
This is the whole point behind the current 21-day observations periods and self-quarantine measures. If a person’s Ebola status could be instantly determined by one test administered at any time, then everyone could be either diagnosed or cleared on day one and there would be no reason to observe anyone for 21 days (or 42 days) in the first place.
But Ebola can’t be detected in a person’s blood in its early stages. Thus, the entire claim that “She tested NEGATIVE for Ebola!” is meaningless. And people who keep repeating this claim only highlight their own medical ignorance while underscoring the very reason why public pressure should never be relied upon to make medical decisions during a pandemic.
The fact that Ebola can be replicating inside your body while you still test negative should be obvious, in fact. Let’s say you’re a nurse who is treating Ebola patients in Liberia. You get a droplet of saliva on your hand and you accidentally touch the corner of your eye with that hand. Now you are infected with Ebola but of course a blood test will show a negative result.
Repeated blood tests will continue to show negative results until the Ebola virus has managed to replicate through many generations, spreading from the eye to the blood and then eventually saturating the blood with enough virus to be detectable. The timing of this varies tremendously, sometimes taking as little as two days and other times taking as long as six weeks.
Remember: Even the people who have died from Ebola would have initially tested negative for Ebola. A negative test is not any assurance that the results won’t become positive 24 hours later. Testing for Ebola during the early days of infection is just as useless as conducting a pregnancy test immediately after having sex.
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