Who is Dr. Shem Musoke? Did Dr. Musoke contract Ebola?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Shem Musoke was a doctor at a hospital in Nairobi, and treated Ebola patient Charles Monet. Dr. Shem Musoke later became ill with the virus, and made a full recovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep reading to find out how Dr. Shem Musoke contracted the virus, and how he survived it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The nurses wheeled Monet\u2014barely alive\u2014into the intensive care unit, where a young doctor named Dr. Shem Musoke inspected him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musoke had no idea what kind of illness this was, but his first priority was to help Monet breathe, which was becoming increasingly difficult as he hemorrhaged and his airways filled with blood and mucus. Without wearing gloves, Musoke put his finger in Monet\u2019s mouth to clear the blood and mucus so he could insert the laryngoscope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Musoke leaned close to Monet\u2019s face, peering down his throat, Monet spewed black vomit all over Musoke, the gurney, and the floor around them. Bits of vomit landed in Musoke\u2019s eyes and mouth.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Musoke got Monet breathing again, but Monet was losing so much blood that his blood pressure was plummeting. Musoke attempted to give him a blood transfusion, but each time he tried inserting the needle, Monet\u2019s vein gave way and blood came pouring out, unable to clot. At the same time, Monet continued to hemorrhage from his bowels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Monet fell deeper into a coma and died hours later. As doctors performed the autopsy, Monet\u2019s body looked like it had been dead for days, not hours.<\/strong> Monet\u2019s liver was yellow and partially liquefied, and his intestinal lining had shed\u2014both of which are common in days-old corpses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nine days after treating Monet, Musoke got a backache and his eyes became red. Musoke suspected he had malaria. He took malaria pills and had an antimalarial injection, but neither helped. It seemed like Dr. Shem Musoke’s Ebola symptoms were different from Charles Monet’s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, Dr. Shem Musoke’s Ebola symptoms worsened. He developed a fever, aches throughout his body, and abdominal pain. He began to think he had typhoid fever, but the antibiotics he took for it did nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Musoke continued to work at the hospital, and he kept getting worse. Soon, he developed jaundice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, Musoke turned to another doctor at his hospital, Antonia Bagshawe, for treatment. Bagshawe suspected gallstones or a liver abscess, which would explain the fever, abdominal pain, and jaundice. However, an ultrasound showed nothing more than an enlarged liver. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMusoke Breaks With Symptoms<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n