and it's time now for sunday house call. joining us as always, dr. mark siegel author of inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. you first begin with the top news on treating the ebola virus. the treatment for dr. kent brandtly is one of two americans that have been affected by the

ebola virus. dr. brantly undergoing treatment at emery hospital. dr. siegel sat -- >> ebola is spread primarily in two ways, one if someone is severely ill and cared for at a hospital and at home and has the care givers or health care workers have contact with the body fluids. that's the first way, the second way in africa is burial practices where people may be exposed to body fluids from someone who has died. >> dr. siegel, dr. brantly we're told is getting better. what is ebola and how do you prevent possible spread? >> the fact that he walked into the hospital is a positive sign. ebola can really knock you down, because the way ebola works is it eludes the immune system, you don't get the usual immune

response. the anti-bodies are not responding. if you get very sick, it's because ebola has gone all over the body, it can affect the kidneys and the liver. the initial signs are just like the flu and that's why it's hard to diagnose. dr. freedman, the top infectious disease guy in the country says you're not going to spread ebola unless you've already got sichl toms from it, you've got headache, muscle makes, you've got high fever, then you've got nausea and vomiting. then you get plenty of bleeding which is one of the things that leads to the death of patients with it. over 50% of patients are dieing from that particular outbreak. he probably got very good care over there in africa and he got blood from someone who had already survived it. >> there was a 14-year-old boy who was infected with ebola and he got a blood transfusion from

that young man that possibly saved his life. i saw that video of him walking in. in that kind of decontamination suit. there's dr. brantly on the left. what does this mean, when you see him not on a stretcher, but actually under his own party, able to walk in and then reportedly talk to his wife. >> i think it's incredible. and by the way, one of the things that the doctor underlined is how much of a hero he is. he goes to countries in west africa and he's working to save lives and we owe him our taking care of him. and this unit that the cdc is overseeing, we're able to isolate him, study the ebola virus, and figure out how to treat it in other. . >> i think they're very courageous, they're people to be admired. they take their job and their oath as a physician and a healer and a health care provider to

take care of people even under extraordinary circumstances. you know, we have that kind of experience, myself personally in the very early years of the hiv aids pandemic, when we were taking care of patients when we had no idea, what this was, how it's transmitted or things like that. it's what you do, it's your job as a physician. >> populated areas, areas that are porous borders and very poor health care infrastructures, and very poor health care things like washing their bodies, that's one of the reasons it spreads there and worvelt spread here. >> it's such a noble cause going over there and being an american doctor and treating it. should we worry? >> the reason we got so many e-mails and americans are concerned, we have a second doctor that's probably going to come monday morning, so we have

a second case of live ebola virus on american soil and that makes people uncomfortable. we also have a third one who actually died two days a lot in nigeria. that's the third american who actually passed away from that and you have a retired pediatrician who's on household almost quarantine because he doesn't want to expose himself, for the next three weeks, he's not going to leave his home. and we have ebola virus in the u.s. and that's increasing concern. if you look at ebola, since 1967, we have had 23 people die. just recently we had 700 people who have died over there. americans are concerned because we have no cure, no vaccine, and it's lethal. the answer to your question, should they be worried? absolutely not at this point, the reason is our health care

system can manage this. even though the world can become global, people are traveling from other countries, they can bring this, we can find this, we can isolated it and treat it very accurately. obviously emery is a great hospital, they have four centers that can take care of this. cdc is 100% behind this. if anyone has fever who has travelled to africa, the next question is we should take that person in the hospitals and isolate them so we cut down the aggressiveness. >> i think a lot of the concerns are human error. you cannot guarantee that one doctor could potentially make a slipup. doctors are not perfect. so we're talking about human error and also security risks because this could potentially be used as a weapon if in the wrong hands. >> your point is absolutely well taken. ebola is known as a biological weapon. what it does, if the virus comes into your system, takes over the

immune system, then starts traveling to all the other organs, kidneys, liver, and what it does is it basically makes organ failure, it causes clotting in the major areas but it causes massive bleeding all around your body and you can die. it's true, it's a biological weapon and the government is looking into it, we recentlied a the mistake at the cdc where they send the virus from one lab to another one. >> we have to take a quick commercial break, but we're going to go into that more, because the cdc is not perfect either. there is no room for mistakes. coming up, weighing the risks of possible ebola outbreak here in the united states. we're getting a flood of your questio questions. unlimited cash back.

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the idea of having a patient for one reason or other to come here for care, given the conditions that we have four isolating and taking care of patients, the risk is extraordinarily small that there will be a problem. >> he said small but he didn't say zero and i asked him that, and he said i can never say zero, nothing is zero in the world. so that's the part that didn't make it to the sound bite. not zero, infin test mali small. that's a respiratory virus that spreads much for easily than

this. >> that was the national institute of -- responding to concerns about a possible ebola outbreak here in the u.s., those fears are being raised now after a u.s. doctor infected with the virus was flown into a hospital in atlanta. our weekly segment about everything that worries us. so how concerned should you be about this health crisis? here's a twitter question and we have been getting dozens upon dozenings of these. the people affected with ebola were wearing protective sites. >> the kind of protection that they have over here is completely different than what we have over here. we have a way to put these patients almost in a bubble wrap where there won't be any kind of contamination. the reason why i don't want people to really panic is because this is not in the air, this is not air, so you have to be in contact with the body

fluid, whether it's blood, you e urine, sputum, whatever. >> jim ozmond asks how is ebola spread, there's conflicting stories about this. >> i don't think there's conflicting stories about this. we talk about flu virus changing all the time, becoming more and more concontagious, he said the ebola virus has not changed since 1976. you can only get it by close contact with secretion. and usually it's diarrhea by the way. because of the practices in west after karks when someone dies, they wash the body, they don't separate themselves. they also are not understanding precautions. dr. freeden said to me if you were able to isolate sick paiblgts -- now the reason that

this is such a huge problem in west africa is because these are populated areas. before there's been several outbreaks of ebola that have been controlled because they'll rural. >> i think the hygiene and the water system and the way we live our life is a little bit different hire. over there if something gets into the water there, it may spread like wildfire. they don't have soaps and water, erts et cetera. i think the reason we don't have a vaccine yet is you're talking about 2,300 people. on the other hand, this is hemorrhagic fever, you also have something in nigeria and west africa is called lessa. it can get in the air. 300,000 people get the same symptoms as this one, and 5,000 people died as a result of that. >> hemorrhagic fever?

>> hemorrhagic fever is ebola that we were talking about, you start with a fever, slowly you lose our appetite and then you bleed out. >> there was a case of this in colorado in 2009. they isolated the guy mo had it. it's almost the same as ebola, they isolated him and he recovered. >> there's no vaccine for ebola. >> there whole purpose for the segment today because we got hundreds of twitters and e-mails, and i'll post it on my facebook, is people should not panic right now. cdc is all over this, if somebody has it, we're going to contain them, all the hospitals are prepared for this. so it's time to be calm and i'm sure they're doing an amazing job to make sure that our good doctor feels better. >> there's a vaccine coming, it's been incredibly powerful in monkeys, it's starting in human

trials next month at the nih. >> my fiance works for emery, i was pretty worried but i feel much better now, they in the cdc are top notch. >> the hospital is making it very clear, this is a completely separate isolation. >> we got to pay the bills, we got to take a break. >> we hope that dr. brantly and the other doctor that's coming, our thoughts are and prayers are with them. e-mail us your questions to housecall@f housecall@foxnews.com. . . ♪

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and back now with sunday house call. researchers have unveiled a new test for prostate cancer, it's called the designed to give patients an accurate reading. is it better than psa. >> the short answer is yes. it is new on the market. rielt now the test we use is psa. but this one, it consists of three tests, it has psa already in it. it also has a second test p 2 psa. it is actually a combination of three tests. the purpose is to detect aggressive cancers. it is a little complex. the new website

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the right direction. in psa around 4 or 5 we're not sure what to do, it's not as accurate so here we have these other tests that can be packaged together. when you are on the border line to have a biopsy or not, the point is to not do unnecessary biopsie biopsies, and also on the flip side to find it early, and you want to get it out. >> so what should we look for. as the numbers go up bit by bit what do you tell your doctor. >> we call it psa kennetics. we always look at the trend oh find out what who is going on with the patient but it is not always accurate. we also have patients with

slow-growing cancer. this test shows whether it is slow-growing or a bad one. because the biopsies are random so the false positives are high that's why surgery is the first line of treatment because those random biopsies are not good. these tests give us much more information. >> i think also you mentioned it is one of the most curable cancers out there. >> when it is caught early on. >> and that is the key. >> we started in june, for a lot of the viewers, we talk to you come on in. >> a good surgeon is someone who decides if you need the operation. we will come right back and talk about the ultimate super foods, garlic, why is it so

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>> it can be added to add flavor to your food or ward off the occasion vampire, but did you know garlic is packed with vitamins and nutrients to prevent everything from certain types of cancer.

what other benefits are there to garlic besides stinky breath. i love garlic but not the most pl pleasant taste. >> it can also cause a little heart burn. but the big plus signs, it seems to lower blood pressure and has a compound in it to decrease your risk of heart disease. cholesterol plus minus, some studies say yes, some say no. it is an anti inflammatory. it does have an antibiotic effect. the cancer part i'm not convinced. >> the best way to take it raw. if you really cook it you lose all the effect and there will be no burping going on. so there's been a lot on the research. it has something that opens up

the vessels and it helps with people who have high blood pressure. so if you don't want to take a lot of blood pressure medication add some pressure garlic to your food. it is the celebrity of all the spices. it is beneficial. if you don't want to take it raw take 600 mill grams of the herbals. >> a lot of cancer patients eat it. so raw garlic, is it going to help? >> yes it reduces inflammation. so for colon cancer, any kind of bowel inflammation, it is very helpful. so add it to your food. >> not just in my tomato sauce. >> absolutely. raw. we have been talking about the med terrainian diet for a long

time, that is why they live forever. >> doctors, thanks as always. >> always learn something. >> that's it. thank you. thanks for watching. see you again at 3:30 and again at 7:00. an air strike killing as many as ten people, no cease fire in site. netanyahu says he will continue to secure his people. an effect with ebola is usually a death sentence but an american doctor walked into an atlanta hospital and is getting treatment. are the consequences too