hope you continue to be more of a healthy you. hope you continue to be more of a healthy you. it's time now for "sunday housecall." >> and i'm julie. welcome everybody. >> joining us as always dr. marc siegel. he's a professor of medicine and the author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. and dr. david samadi chief of robotic surgery. we first begin with the top news on treating the ebola virus. the treatment for dr. kent brantly, one of two americans infected with this deadly virus. they were treating ebola

patients in west africa. first, what is ebola and how does it spread. dr. siegel sat down with the head of the centers for disease control and spoke to him about that. >> ebola is spread primarily in two ways. one if someone is severely ill and cared for, the care givers or health care workers have contact with the body fluids. the second way in africa is burial practices where people may be exposed to body fluids from someone who has died. >> dr. brantly we're told is getting better. can he fully recover, what is ebola? >> the idea that he walked into the hospital is a tremendous sign. we don't know the specifics, but ebola can really knock you down. it eludes the immune system. you don't get the usual immune response you get for another

virus. the anti bodies are not responding. now, the initial signs of it are just like the flu. that's why it's hard to diagnose. both the doctors i spoke to, both said that you're not going to spread ebola unless you already got symptoms from it. symptoms first are flu-like symptoms. basically you have a headache, muscle fatigue, high fever. after that, you can get plenty of bleeding which is one of the things that leads to the death of patients with it. over 60% of patients are dying from this particular outbreak. he got blood from someone who had already survived it. it's possible the antibodies he got actually helped him. >> they say he got a blood transfusion from a young man that possibly saved his life. you saw that video of him walking in, it was unbelievable.

walking out of the ambulance in that suit. there it is. there's dr. brantly on the left. when you see this, as you mentioned, what does this mean when you see him under his own power able to walk in and reportedly talk to his wife? sgli think it's incredible. one of the things that i want to show here is how much of a hero this guy is. he goes to countries like west africa and is working to save lives. in a way, we owe him in taking care of him. in this unit in atlanta, we're able to isolate him, study the virus, figure out how to treat it in others. >> i think they're very courageous. they're people to be admired. they take their job and oath as a physician and a healer and a health care provider to take care of people even under

extraordinary circumstances. you know, we had that kind of experience myself personally in the very early years of the hiv-aids pandemic. we had no idea what this was and how it's transmitted. it's what you do. it's your job as a physician. >> he said the trouble is going to be to control it in west africa. populated areas, areas with pour rust borders. that's one of the reasons it spreads there and won't spread here. >> you're right. such a noble cause going over there and treating the people who have this deadly virus. dr. samadi, should we worry here in this country? >> the reason why we got so many e-mails is because we have a second doctor that's going to come probably monday morning. so we will have a second case of live ebola virus on american soil. that makes a lot of people

uncomfortable. we also had patrick sawyer who actually died two days ago in nigeria. that's the third american that passed away from this. and you have a doctor in tennessee who is on household almost quarantine because he doesn't want to expose himself. so we have ebola virus now in u.s. and that increases a lot of concern. now, this is a major outbreak. if you look at ebola, since 1967 we've had 23 people die. just recently -- >> and you mean a major outbreak in west africa. >> 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 because our health care system can manage this. even though the world has become

global, they can bring this, we can find it, we can contain it, we can isolate and treat it very accurately. so i don't want people to really panic as a result of this. obviously emory is a great hospital. they have four centers that can take care of this. of course finding if anyone has fever that has traveled to africa, the next question is, we should take that person in the hospital and isolate them so we cut down the aggressiveness. >> i think a lot of concerns are also human error. you cannot guarantee that one doctor could potentially make a slipup. so people are worried about human error, possible transmission that way and also security risks. this could be used as a weapon. >> what we saw -- >> if it's in the wrong hands. >> your point is well taken. ebola is also known as a biological weapon. if the virus comes into your system, takes over the immune

system, then starts traveling to all the other organs. it basically makes organ failure. it causes clotting in the blood vessels, but it causes massive bleeding all around your body and you can die. so it's true, it's a biological weapon. we just had a recent mistake at cdc where they send a live virus from one lab to another one. >> that's the reason i bring this up. we will go into that more. the cdc is not perfect either. so it's not just human error, it's the cdc. with this, there is no room for mistakes. stand by. we have more on this. coming up, weighing the risks of a possible ebola outbreak in the united states. should you be concerned? we're getting a flood of your twitter questions. so the doctors weigh in on that next. we'll read some of your concerns to the doctors right after the break. wondering what that is?

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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 for isolating and taking care of patients, the risk is extraordinarily small that there will be a problem. >> he didn't say zero. and i asked him that. 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. but the isolation units we're talking about here are the same ones that they used back in 2005. that's a respiratory virus that spreads much more easily than this. >> so that was who you've been

talking to responding to concerns about a possible ebola outbreak here in the u.s. those fears are being raised after a u.s. doctor with the virus was felony to america. this brings up the question, should i worry. how concerned should you be about this health crisis. dr. samadi, i want to ask you, here's a twitter question, the people infected with ebola were wearing protected equipment and contracted the virus. why can't that happen here? >> the kind of protection they have over there is nothing like we have here. we have a way to put these patients almost in a bubble wrap were there won't be any kind of contamination. the reason why i don't want people to panic is because this is not in air. you have to be in contact with the body fluid, whether it's blood, urine, sputum, et cetera.

health care providers are at risk. there's nobody out there walking around with ebola because they're going to be extremely sick. >> how is ebola spread? >> i ask, does this thing mu at a time, has it changed. we talk about flu virus changing all the time. he said the ebola virus has been basically the same since 1976. so you can only get it, julie, by close contact to secretions. usual usually, it's diarrhea by the way. and because of the practices in west africa. when someone dies, they wash the body. they don't separate themselves. they also are not understanding precautions. he said to me, if you would be able to isolate sick patients and take someone that's sick -- the reason that this is a huge problem in west africa is

because these are populated area. before, there have been several outbreaks that have been controlled because they're rural. you're able to come in with a health care team and control them. >> i think the hygiene and water system and the way we live our life is a little different over here. over there, if something gets into the water system, they may not really be keeping the kind of hygienes and they don't have soaps and water. i think the reason that we don't have a vaccine yet is because you're talking about 2,300 people. on the other hand, this is hemorrhagic fever. you also have something called lassa fever. lassa fever is almost the same thing, but it can get in the air. guess what, 300,000 people get the same symptoms as this one and 5,000 people die as a result of that. >> that's hemorrhagic fever. >> it's ebola that we were talking about. you start with a fever and

slowly you lose your appetite, diarrh diarrhea, vomiting and start bleeding out. >> it's amazing there's no vaccine. >> there was a case of this in colorado in 2009. they isolated the guy who had it. it's almost the same as ebola. there is a vaccine in the works for this. >> there's nothing yet. i think the whole purpose of the segment today because we got hundreds of twitters and e-mails and i'll post it on facebook a summary of all of this, people should not panic right now. cdc is all over this. you cannot get it prom breathing. all the hospitals are prepared. so it's time to be ca emory, i'm sure they're doing an amazing job to make sure 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. >> mark davis tweets, my fiance works at emory. >> that's another thing that this is important. if there are other patients at emory, the hospital is making it clear, this is completely separate isolation. >> we have to pay the bills. we have to take a break. >> we hope dr. brantly will recover completely. and of course, if you have a question for the doctors, you can tweet us or e-mail us. they can answer the questions on air as they have this morning. all e-mails and addresses are kept completely confidential. >> tweet us. we'll be right back.

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>> and now, research has unveiled a new test to detect prostate cancer which is designed to give paints more accurate reading whether they are at risk of the disease. dr. samadi, this is your specialty. is it better than p.s.a.? >> the short antiis "yes." the toasts we use is called prostate specific antogen but it can boost the p.s.a. test which p.s.a. in it and another second test in it and now it is a combination of three testifies in one biomarker. the purpose is to detect aggressive prostate cancers, and to reduce the number of biopsies. it could sound complex. that is why the new website www.

prostatecancer9-1-1.com is out there for anyone that is diagnosed with prostate cancer or elevated psa, for all the fox news viewers we give a free consultation to bring the psa and pathology and have a discussion on that site. >> this is a prostate index or rely on the psa? >> in two weeks we will have this in our practice and offer that to the patient. it is more specific to find the prostate cancer that can hurt the patient. big news. >> false positives, doctor, is a concern for many men who have a biopsy. the rate of false positives is too high, if i were a man and i find out i have prostate cancer, oops, no, no, you don't. >> great question. that is what i worry about. i am a fan of psa because the tool is the doctor, not the test. i have to do something with the result that will steer me in the right direction in. in a psa of around four or five

we are not sure what to do, it is not so accurate and the other two tests could be packaged, together, and a free psa is predicted in those areas. when you are wondering if you should have a biopsy or not, you start a men's screening program using the three tests and the point is not to do unnecessary biopsies, and, also, on the flip side, to biopsy those aggressive cancers early and this test combination predicts if there is an aggressive cancer. >> what do you look for? the numbers go up, bit by bit? >> good point, we look at the trends to find out what is going on with the patient but that is not always accurate. we have a lot of patients that could be "wantful waiting." they have cancer but it seems to be growing and this will show if

it is bad or slow growing. the biopsy is random biopsy. the false positive is high. that is why in my opinion surgery is the first line of treatment for these. those random biopsies are not good. this reduces the number of biopsies and gives us more inflammation. >> ands prostate cancer is the most curable? >> when it is caught early. >> that is the key. >> the screening we are talking about we started in june for fox news viewers if you have prostate cancer, come in and send in the information. >> a good surgeon is not just who just operates but who decided if you need the operation. >> we will have you stand by. this is considered the ultimate have foods: garlic. what makes it so beneficial? how do you know if you should include it in your diet?

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can >> it can be used to add flavor to the food or ward off the occasional vampire but garlic is full of vitamins and nutrients that prevent everything in high blood pressure to cancer. what are the health benefits to garlic aside from stinky breath?

>> i am not convinced --. >> i love garlic but when you burn after... >> it can cause heartburn. that is the other down side. the big plus sides, it lowers blood pressure, it seems to have an effect, compound in it that affects decreasing risk of heart disease and cholesterol plus or minus i am not sure. early studies san mateo and follow-ups say no. people have used it for thousands of years to battle infection and decrease inflammation. it does have an antibiotic effect. cancer part? i am not convinced. >> did you have to eat it? or take a pill? >> the best way is raw because if you cook it to 140 degrees you lose the benefit and there is in burning so there has been a lot written on the research and it decretes something that opens up vessels and that is why

it helps people with high blood pressure. if you do not want to take the blood prior medication, add fresh garlic to the food and the garlic is known like the celebrity of all the spices. it is beneficial. if you don't went to take it raw, take 600 milligrams of the herbals. >> cancer patients like to eat raw in the process of getting cancer treatment. raw garlic help? >> it reduces inflammation. for any kind of bowel ininmation it is -- inflammation. >> raw is best? >> raw. >> we have been talking about the mediterranean diet and this is why italians live forever, have the garlic, have the sauces, have the wine, a nice glass of wine.

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