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Letter: Survivor tactics

Published 29 October 2014

From Eric Kvaalen

There is one group of people who can do a lot to help stop Ebola (18 October, p 10). They are the survivors. About 50 per cent of those who get the disease survive, and they are then, as far as is known, immune.

They should be recruited to take care of those who have the disease and to clean up after them. Since the disease has a short duration compared with the rate at which the number of cases doubles, there should be more survivors than sick people.

They can also give blood, which can then be used to give antibodies to those who are sick.
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 2993 published 1 November 2014

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