Could Duncan have been saved with the right treatment?

The patient’s 103-degree fever might warrant “a little more investigation,” Adalja said. A chart showed he did not arrive with a fever but left with one.

By Duncan’s second ER visit, the care was “impeccable,” the doctor said. Dallas physicians immediately signaled concern about Ebola and “spared no measure to try to keep him alive.”

After it became clear that Duncan was suffering from Ebola, another option would have been to give him a transfusion from an Ebola survivor in the hopes that antibodies in the blood could help him fight the disease.

But Duncan did not receive a transfusion because the blood types did not match, the hospital said.

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