Comment Re:ebola stigma (Score 4, Insightful) 65
I believe that the survivors are generally thought to be immune to further infection as well, so it's a bit scary that the virus can still find repositories in the body where it can hang out for longer periods of time.
It's not anything particularly new - we've known for decades that anyone that's had chicken pox still has the dormant virus in a number of nerve ganglia near the spine, and sometimes it reactivates and causes shingles.
It's not anything particularly new - we've known for decades that anyone that's had chicken pox still has the dormant virus in a number of nerve ganglia near the spine, and sometimes it reactivates and causes shingles.