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Emory Healthcare to treat Ebola patient
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 31 July 2014 | Misty Williams

Posted on 07/31/2014 2:25:13 PM PDT by Wage Slave

Emory University Hospital is expected to receive a patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus within the next several days, the university announced Thursday.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; ebola
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To: Raebie

Please let me know your source for “the experimental serum” given to Nancy Writebol. Many thanks.


61 posted on 07/31/2014 4:13:44 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: blackdog

Agree with you about not bringing it here. Thats just asking for trouble. Send the medical workers over there if that’s what is needed.


62 posted on 07/31/2014 4:17:40 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Raebie

Never mind, I found a ton of articles about the doc and the missionary. Personally, I think it’s a crime that the 33-year-old doc with two young children gave up the serum to a 60-year-old woman. I can understand his thinking was flawed by the disease; someone else should have made the decision for him.


63 posted on 07/31/2014 4:25:49 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: blackdog

Quite a difference between a few samples stored in locked freezers and armed guards, vs the sample walking in and interacting with the not-long healthy.


64 posted on 07/31/2014 4:38:38 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: Wage Slave

I hope every person involved is summarily fired and imprisoned.


65 posted on 07/31/2014 4:39:53 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: bgill

A kid whom he treated. There’s poetry in that.

Praying fervently that this good man is spared to continue the work of his heart.


66 posted on 07/31/2014 5:13:19 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Veto!

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/07/31/6010018/texas-doctor-with-ebola-turns.html

Many others. Just google Writebol or Brantly.


67 posted on 07/31/2014 5:32:27 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Jedidah

Thanks Jedidah. I finally did just that. I think young Dr. Brantly should have been given the serum rather than the 60-yr old woman. He’s only 33 and has two children to raise. Hopefully both victims will rally and survive.


68 posted on 07/31/2014 5:38:01 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

He’s a medical professional. I would hope that his decision to give the serum to her was not entirely unselfish, that it may have indicated that his condition is improving and she needed it more.

We’re just sitting here armchair-quarterbacking. I feel sure the docs there know more than we do.

Unlike many, including some on this thread, I have no problem whatsoever with bringing either of these Americans back for treatment, if they’re up to the trip (which is questionable). Our medical community is completely capable of quarantining them and treating them in isolation. This awful disease is a threat worldwide if it escapes Africa, and we need to learn all we can about it and prepare.


69 posted on 07/31/2014 5:45:10 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: blackdog

Regardless of what the reason is in bringing them home, I agree, it is not sound public policy.


70 posted on 07/31/2014 5:49:06 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: Wage Slave

do we know the name of the airline/charter
that is transporting the diseased people?


71 posted on 07/31/2014 5:54:56 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Wage Slave

Putin could decontaminate it before it got here, if the flight path were in range of any assets. Maybe they’ll pass close enough to Cuba.


72 posted on 07/31/2014 6:18:00 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Ping...


73 posted on 07/31/2014 6:18:41 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Jedidah
Our medical community is completely capable of..............

You sir or mam, do not follow history much? The only upside to ebola is how fast it kills within a population of limited means of dispersal or travel. Give it the means to mass and transoceanic transit and you are looking at something out of a Stephen King novel.

The herds are about to be culled folks. I'm not armchairing anything. Global pandemics do occur. Why give them jet fuel to do so?

74 posted on 07/31/2014 7:03:06 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Girlene

If the flight is not military, the captain is solely responsible for his cargo and pax.


75 posted on 07/31/2014 7:05:05 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Wage Slave

This *patient* has to be arriving from somewhere/somehow....who’s to say they’re not flying in with your sister, brother, wife, husband, uncle....etc?


76 posted on 07/31/2014 7:09:45 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Wage Slave; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

77 posted on 07/31/2014 7:10:18 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: telstar12.5
just getting in practice for the REAL show - national quarantine and marshal law

FWIW, I got caught in a swine flu quarantine almost five years ago because of symptoms. I didn't have swine flu. It's very frightening. Once the ptb decide on a quarantine, you don't get to decide. Going home is not an option, until they say so.

I could imagine that experience as having been a test run. A quarantine situation in the US sure would take attention away from all of our crises.

78 posted on 07/31/2014 7:10:28 PM PDT by grania
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To: blackdog
If the flight is not military, the captain is solely responsible for his cargo and pax.

Bingo. THAT ^^ is the question.

79 posted on 07/31/2014 7:11:28 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: RockyTx

Radio news about five PM said the plane was a private jet with special isolation chamber and only five or six medicos aboard, IIRC


80 posted on 07/31/2014 7:27:51 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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