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In reply to the discussion: Ebola patients, US citizens, are being evacuated to the U.S. from Liberia. [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)also yesterday Samaritan reported that his condition had slightly improved. It was overnight that it went "slightly downhill." I've read a couple times it's been up and down.
Certainly heading downhill is not good, but not necessarily surprising. A transfusion is a major event and even with fully compatible blood there can be minor reactions. The blood he was given was not likely to have been leukocyte-reduced or as "cleaned up" as American Red Cross blood is.
It really depends on what symptom specifically has gotten worse. Fever is an indication that the body is fighting, and fever also can be a transfusion reaction, especially to foreign WBCs.
The main thing is that nothing has been reported about either of them entering the hemorrhagic phase. That will be the real turning point. I suspect if they had entered that phase they would not even think of shipping them back here except for their funerals.