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In reply to the discussion: 2nd nurse's Ebola case may have been worse than thought [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Nor would she have called CDC and not reported those symptoms, nor, if she had reported gastro symptoms, would CDC have cleared the flight.
She is a nurse who got infected from a patient, not a mass murdering sociopath who got engaged and planned a wedding just to have a chance of passing it on.
It's more probable that she just had a slow immune response. It is the immune response that alerts the infected individual that something is wrong, and that varies quite naturally among individuals. Some people react to viral infections with stronger initial symptoms.
Also, in women of reproductive ages, there are natural modulations of the immune response that vary throughout the menstrual cycle. Certain types of immune responses are regulated down during the period during which a woman might get pregnant. This could account for milder initial symptoms:
http://www.livescience.com/36067-women-prone-infections-ovulating.html