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A few patients do bleed to death, Rollin said, but they don’t explode, and they don’t melt. In fact, he said, the conventional term then in use, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, was itself a misnomer, because more than half the patients don’t bleed at all. They die of other causes, such as respiratory distress and shutdown (but not dissolution) of internal organs. It’s for just these reasons, as cited by Rollin, that the WHO has switched its own terminology from Ebola hemorrhagic fever to Ebola virus disease.
David Quammen
A few patients do bleed to death, Rollin said, but they don’t explode, and they don’t melt. In fact, he said, the conventional term then in use, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, was itself a misnomer, because more than half the patients don’t bleed at all. They die of other causes, such as respiratory distress and shutdown (but not dissolution) of internal organs. It’s for just these reasons, as cited by Rollin, that the WHO has switched its own terminology from Ebola hemorrhagic fever to Ebola virus disease.
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A collection of Quammen's drafts, research, and correspondence is housed in Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. The collection consists of approximately 63 boxes of publicly available literary production, artifacts, maps, and other papers dated from 1856–2014.