The person with Ebola has never recovered, the Ebola virus has fooled us all

If this risk becomes a reality, humanity will face a real disaster on a global scale.

Ebola virus has never been destroyed

With the efforts of the world health system, the Ebola epidemic in Africa has gradually subsided on newspapers. However, the mystery about it right now attracts many scientists. One of the biggest questions about Ebola: Is it possible to recur on people who have been cured? Can viruses fool the immune system to hide and be ready to come back at any time? If this risk becomes a reality, humanity will face a real disaster on a global scale, not just in Africa.

Moving Ebola patients back from Africa.

On October 9, Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish nurse, became the first case of relapse in Europe. The special thing is, the time she was discharged after receiving treatment and receiving negative results for Ebola for up to 9 months. All scientists and doctors are startled with a great concern about the Ebola outbreak in Europe . Pauline Cafferkey was immediately taken to Royal Free Hospital in London by military aircraft.

"Ebola virus, somehow, it still exists and has returned to cause serious disorder in the nervous system of Pauline Cafferkey," wrote The New York Times. "Her marrow fluid gives a positive result for the existence of Ebola".

Previous doctors also raised a big suspicion that patients like Pauline Cafferkey who were discharged from the hospital were "cured" , they did not fully recover and the Ebola virus did not seem to be ruled out. All of them are being monitored with severe visual and hearing loss, seizures, insomnia and body aches that exist for months after negative results.

Image of Ebola virus under a microscope.

Ebola is a dangerous virus that spreads through body fluids, causes high fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and headaches, killing half of all people infected with it. Up to now, Ebola has been confirmed as the culprit of more than 10,000 deaths. Its strongest outbreak was in West Africa in 2014, the epidemic that caused waves of transatlantic panic attacks to reach both the US and Europe.

Many people believe that all those who have survived Ebola infection can consider themselves lucky. However, the truth is not so, the war with Ebola has not ended since they left the hospital and returned to daily life. A risk of recurrence and infection is always close to their lives.

In addition to nurse Pauline Cafferkey, the case of Crozier, an American doctor who served and infected Ebola in Sierra Leone, was mentioned in August 2014. He was later transferred to the United States and received treatment. pole at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta. In early October 2015, at an infectious disease conference in San Dieogo, Crozier first details what he suffered after 40 days of battling Ebola.

About 10 weeks after the first symptoms, Crozier had serious vision problems. Basically, he was blind. Reports of this condition were quickly published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Upon discharge, Ebola no longer appears in Crozier's blood and urine but is later found in sperm. He also had problems with lower limbs, difficulty walking, lumbar pain, tendinitis and always had a feeling of needles under his feet.

Crozier's left turns green.

The worst, Crozier felt a burning sensation in his eyes, a feeling of something ragged in his eyes and then he had a sensitivity to light. Doctors detect a scar inside the eye and mild hemorrhage nearby.

About 1 month later, symptoms showed its danger. Doctors have to extract a sample of fluid inside the cornea and lens. Unexpectedly, it was positive for Ebola. Crozier's eyesight continued to decline and the color of his eyes even turned from blue to green.

"In addition to the change in eye color, I lost control of eye pressure, it started to lighten , " Crozier said in an interview with CNN. "When I fly back to Phoenix, I have to see the world through a piece of cheese."

The problem happened not only with Crozier, 25% of patients survived Ebola with visual problems . To overcome this, doctors must eliminate retinal cell fragments that are thought to be responsible for vision impairment. However, Crozier's eyesight could not return to normal.

Besides vision problems, he also suffered from persistent back pain, tinnitus, hearing loss, short-term memory impairment. Crozier had a seizure while attending a wedding in England last summer. Soon after, his treatment regimen was supplemented with anti-epileptic drugs.

Nina Pham, a Vietnamese nurse, also suffered from complications after Ebola treatment. She contracted the virus in October 2014 while treating a patient at Dallas Hospital. After "curing" , she continued to cope with body aches, hair loss, sleep disorders and nightmares.

Protective clothing is worn outside the Madrid Red Cross Center.

Studies on Ebola survivors were performed in a sporadic and incomplete condition. It is a difficulty for us to understand the long-term effects of the virus on the body " has cured" . What we know, is the symptoms of fatigue, joint pain that they often experience after any serious infection , Jesse Goodman, an infectious disease specialist and Professor at the University Medical Center Georgetown, Washington DC told LiveScience.

The immune system's own chemicals can make us think we're sick, Goodman said. Muscles and tissues are vulnerable to dehydration, malnutrition and low blood pressure in this condition. About 13,000 people are the number of Ebola survivors recorded as similar to Crozier or Nina Pham.

It must also be said that there are no Ebola cases, but patients show good recovery. That was the case of journalist Ashoka Mukpo, who was infected with Ebola in an outbreak in Liberia and received intensive treatment afterwards. Recently in an interview with CNN, Ashoka said : "I feel strong and physically, mentally and psychologically". Besides, Rick Sacra, a doctor who is also infected with Ebola in Liberia, only confirmed that sometimes he looked blurred and coughed but they disappeared after he left the hospital.

Although there are good recovery cases after treatment, the number is still too small. Until now no scientist or doctor has dared to assert they understand Ebola. And if more and more evidence relates to the recurrence and return of the Ebola virus in a patient's " recovery" , it will be a major danger. The disease can break out in the US or Europe at any time and it is clear that our fight with Ebola has never ended.