WHO quietly admits that 5% of Ebola patients incubate the virus beyond 21 days
by: Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews.com
Friday, October 31, 2014
Nearly 42 days have passed since any new cases of Ebola have turned up in the countries of Senegal and Nigeria, both in West Africa. But a recent update issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that as many as 2 percent of Ebola patients can start to show symptoms beyond the standard 42-day surveillance period, suggesting more possible cases.
According to infectious disease experts, Ebola has a maximum incubation period of about 21 days, meaning the virus can lie dormant for up to three weeks before manifesting as fever, chills, vomiting or worse. To be safe, WHO and others typically monitor potential Ebola victims for twice this amount of time, or 42 days, which is standard containment protocol.
But as it turns out, not all Ebola patients start to show symptoms within this time period. While a 42-day monitoring window will catch the vast majority of Ebola cases, up to 2 percent will slip by and begin to show symptoms later. It is this small percentage that WHO hasn’t really talked much about, other than to slip it into a report suggesting that two countries are about to be declared Ebola-free.
“98% [of Ebola patients] have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval,” says WHO. “WHO is therefore confident that detection of no new cases, with active surveillance in place, throughout this 42-day period means that an Ebola outbreak is indeed over.”
Five percent of Ebola patients will start to show symptoms after 21 days
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