Dallas Nurse Infected With Ebola to Be Transferred to NIH

[JimDandy]

63. All the US patients survived who were given transfusions containing the Ebola antigen

She will survive as she was given the antigen blood. On the 14th, a couple days after receiving the transfusion, she herself reported she was "doing well". And the recent video of her walking during a time in the infection path when Duncan was on his death bed (not given a transfusion) is just more evidence she is "on the road to recovery". So, no, not premature.

Her blood is valuable, more valuable than Brantley's blood that she received. It contains antigens to the virus strain that most closely matches Duncan's (patient zero in the US). Her blood will be more helpful to everyone else who gets Ebola via the chain of illness originating with Duncan than Brantley's will (or any other survivor who got Ebola from someone else in West Africa).

The NIH can start testing her blood for HIV, Hep C etc right now and then, when she is more fully recovered, start stockpiling it (I can't see her not permitting it).