Ebola BDBV is untreatable, but we can still tilt the scales

There is no approved vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo Ebola virus. Instead, what we have to rely on is good supportive care. And what do we mean by that? We mean fluids when the patient is in shock, electrolytes when they're being lost because of diarrhea, hemodynamic support when the blood pressure is falling and the patient is going into septic shock, symptom control, treatment of co-infections that might occur. All of these things improve survival. This is what I do every day in the intensive care unit. I take patients just like this and treat them. And the problem is that it's very intensive, obviously. These patients require constant care where you will have only a maximum of two patients per nurse if you're doing two to one ICU care like I do in the United States, specifically in California. As you start to get more and more patients per nurse, it becomes difficult to be able to take care of these type of patients and do a good job. — gram. com