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Exclusive: U.S. nears solution for safe disposal of Ebola waste
Reuters ^ | October 2, 2014 | BY PATRICK RUCKER

Posted on 10/02/2014 5:18:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The United States is days away from settling the critical question of how hospitals should handle and dispose of medical waste from Ebola patients, a government official said on Wednesday.

Experts have warned that conflicting U.S. regulations over how such waste should be transported could make it very difficult for U.S. hospitals to safely care for patients with Ebola, a messy disease that causes diarrhea, vomiting and in some cases, bleeding from the eyes and ears.

Safely handling such waste presents a dual challenge for regulators, who want to both prevent the accidental spread of the deadly disease and avert any deliberate attempts to use it as a bioweapon.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ebola

1 posted on 10/02/2014 5:18:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It shouldn’t be a problem...if we just don’t let people in.


2 posted on 10/02/2014 5:20:12 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like any sane individual believes Reuters.

What a coincidence, just after Obama’s lies about Ebola control have been exposed, we just happen to have developed this new technique.

Not.

The sum total of Reuters reporters expertise (on a scale of 1 to 100) could be expressed in a number much smaller than one.


3 posted on 10/02/2014 5:23:24 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another crisis the Regime has known about for long time, and they are not prepared. This epidemic supposedly started last year, IIRC.


4 posted on 10/02/2014 5:23:51 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kill it with FIRE


5 posted on 10/02/2014 5:25:05 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Da Coyote

Why would Reuters lie about this? It makes Obama look bad. They had trouble dealing with the hazardous waste from one of the previous patients here. No one would move it or take it.


6 posted on 10/02/2014 5:25:22 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

days away.....

Mere Days Away

The Solution Is eminent...thanks to THe Great Leader.

now how to prove the Regime wanted to inspire a Panic..prior to the Election..?


7 posted on 10/02/2014 5:38:30 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did they follow protocol when cleaning up the vomit outside the Liberian family’s apartment? Just wonderin’.


8 posted on 10/02/2014 6:22:37 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

“Did they follow protocol when cleaning up the vomit outside the Liberian family’s apartment?”

The most recently hired minimum wage apartment complex flunky got that job.


9 posted on 10/02/2014 6:31:01 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In Africa they throw the waste into a nearby 55 gallon drum and burn it. Here I suspect we’ll have to get approval from the EPA for an open fire and Union contracts to transport the waste as well as buy carbon offsets to atone for the shrinking ice caps caused by burning the deadly bugs. Political correctness is all fun and games until folks start dying.


10 posted on 10/02/2014 6:34:29 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about viruses around here. They don't survive well outside of a warm liquid and they don't replicate. Unlike cholera bacteria which swim around in sewers or the bay for a year and then wash back into Bangladesh's water system with the spring floods. Also unlike anthrax spores which can sit in dirt for a century before growing into a bacteria. Viruses need to grow inside of hosts, in the case of the human host, in just about any cells inside the body at a low rate of growth or in the blood vessels at a high rate of growth. The viruses take over the cells lining the blood vessels and replicate in the billions.

Once vomited onto the sidewalk the virus's hours are numbered. They can infect but most likely they will die first.

11 posted on 10/02/2014 6:40:21 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: Dallas59

Hospitals used to have incinerators until some Dweebs outlawed them.


12 posted on 10/02/2014 6:43:51 AM PDT by DeWalt (Times are more like they used to be than they are today.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about back where it came from.


13 posted on 10/02/2014 6:44:38 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: moovova

Or an under the table illegal.


14 posted on 10/02/2014 6:54:44 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: palmer

This virus in past studies seems to survive just fine on surfaces for a little over 20 days in some instances.


15 posted on 10/02/2014 6:56:05 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: Lady Heron

If the surfaces stay moist.


16 posted on 10/02/2014 7:04:09 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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