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What Will Happen To Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan's Body?
NBC News ^ | October 8, 2014

Posted on 10/08/2014 12:44:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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The body of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan will be treated with extreme caution because the virus that killed him can live in bodily fluids and tissues as long as they stay wet and at room temperature.

Many deaths have been linked to the handling of bodies in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, so the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has clear guidelines for hospitals and mortuaries that might handle the remains of anyone who succumbs to Ebola.

At the Dallas hospital where Duncan died on Wednesday morning, anyone who had contact with the body must wear personal protective equipment...

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: dallas; ebola; texas; thomasduncan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet


Wheel this to the Mexican border and chuck that bastard over the Rio Grande .
21 posted on 10/08/2014 12:59:05 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As per recommendations to mortuaries the body is to be placed in a disaster body bag and that bag be placed in another disaster bag. All personnel handling remains are to be fully dressed in PPE’s. The outsides of both bags are to be sprayed with an antiviral solution. The PPE’s are to be sprayed with and antiviral solution before removal then incinerated. No autopsy or embalming is to be performed. The body is then to be placed in an hermetically sealed casket and buried or cremated.


22 posted on 10/08/2014 1:00:56 PM PDT by cork (Gun control = hitting what you aim at)
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To: Resettozero; Dark Wing; Smokin' Joe; Black Agnes; ElenaM; Thud; metmom

I just raised this question on the ebola surveillance thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3191066/posts?page=3403

This strain/clade of Ebola is different enough that a fully autopsy needs to be performed with as many tissue samples taken as possible to ascertain the full effects on the body.

So far as we know, no serious autopsy has been done on any of the West African victims. Hell, they had problems keeping blood samples properly chilled in transit to CDC Atlanta and German labs.

There is so much that is unknown about this damn virus it would be criminal to pass this opportunity up.


23 posted on 10/08/2014 1:01:38 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

I 2nd that!


24 posted on 10/08/2014 1:02:38 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Kartographer

LOL! perfect - except isis doesnt exist. Its yet another made up ‘name’ for MB - Muslim Brotherhood. Barak Obama is MB - whats that tell you?


25 posted on 10/08/2014 1:03:11 PM PDT by OleShep (ebola, dog)
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To: SharpRightTurn

No, bad idea. ISIS could do some really malevolent things with it, don’t want to give them ideas they don’t already have.


26 posted on 10/08/2014 1:03:24 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: forgotten man

:)


27 posted on 10/08/2014 1:03:56 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Covenantor

+1


28 posted on 10/08/2014 1:05:35 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: OleShep

“At the Dallas hospital where Duncan died on Wednesday morning, anyone who had contact with the body must wear personal protective equipment...”

I would think they would don protective equipment before they had contact with the body.

Or is my grammar incorrect here?


29 posted on 10/08/2014 1:06:14 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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To: Covenantor

Unless CDC or the BH people already know it from top to bottom and it’s not a mystery to them.


30 posted on 10/08/2014 1:08:44 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: VanDeKoik

Careful!

Our undocumented Spanish cousins will return the favor as the next 1,000,000 crosses the border!


31 posted on 10/08/2014 1:08:59 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’ve already announced that he’s being cremated.


32 posted on 10/08/2014 1:10:45 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I like that idea.


33 posted on 10/08/2014 1:10:58 PM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: VanDeKoik

Funny. Ebola Chunker.


34 posted on 10/08/2014 1:12:14 PM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

marked: Occupant, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW ....


35 posted on 10/08/2014 1:12:42 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I laughed at first but why give them such a weapon? How many of them have US passports or could get a fake? No thanks.


36 posted on 10/08/2014 1:13:26 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Body should be cremated immediately after Death, to insure Killing all the virus .Germs


37 posted on 10/08/2014 1:14:44 PM PDT by chatham
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To: FlingWingFlyer

My idea would have been to drop him on ISIS during one of our bombing runs.
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Great idea and with any luck some meth head Islamists will fire RPG’s rounds on it splattering the remains over a five mile radius.


38 posted on 10/08/2014 1:17:35 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They could float it down the Potomac? I saw a video from India with dead bodies floating down the river, and people swimming and wading past. I think it would bring in tourist dollars.


39 posted on 10/08/2014 1:19:44 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

You have the best idea..........but cremating will do.


40 posted on 10/08/2014 1:21:24 PM PDT by annieokie
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