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Do ebola survivors develop immunity to the virus?
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Yes: Hi. Yes, based on available data, Ebola survivors are immune.
Answered 12/9/2014
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? degree of immune?: "We know that patients who have survived do have specific antibodies in their blood," said Armand Sprecher, MD, from Médecins Sans Frontières. "Of course, what we don't know is the threshold at which antibodies give you a surrogate marker of protection. It's possible we may gather that over the course of this epidemic, as we hopefully move toward vaccination." See:
Answered 12/14/2014
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