US sends medical experts to study how Nigeria tamed Ebola

Vanguard ^ | October 02, 2014 | Hugo Odiogor

[justlittleoleme]

Stunned by the entrance of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, into America, the United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched its personnel to study how Nigeria contained the killer disease.

The US reported on Tuesday that it has discovered a case of EVD in Dallas, Texas, but its health officials said “the crisis is under control and the public has nothing to fear.”

A statement released by US CDC Director Tom Frieden said “it’s clear the nation needs a quick and thorough response to its first Ebola patient”

He said although Nigeria was not completely out of the woods, “their extensive response to a single case of Ebola shows that control is possible with rapid, focused interventions.” Apart from Nigeria, the US will also visit Senegal to study its model.

[justlittleoleme]

Shouldn't they already have a plan in place and know how to contain it? They are saying don't worry we got this and then out of the other side of their mouth they are saying we need to figure out how to contain this?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cause nothing kills American Exceptionalism like getting schooled by Nigeria

[Pearls Before Swine]

Quarantine.

By the way, if they can’t control Boko Haram running wild all over the country, how do we know they actually contained Ebola?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Stunned by the entrance of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, into America..

Why would they be stunned? Do they forget who is POTUS? If atomic bombs exploded all over the US it wouldn't surprise me. If he went and played golf after it happened it wouldn't surprise me.

[silverleaf]

How about they grabbed Sawyer and confined him as soon as he got off the plane (in a car to hospital which he vomited in back seat and infected and killed the car driver)

Nigeria fast recognized he was insanely TRYING to infect people with whom he had contact- most of whom were medical professionals - which he did successfully- urinating on hospital staff and infecting a nurse when he removed his IV (presumably blood spray)

[Snickering Hound]

A strictly enforced quarantine. Which will NEVER be able to happen in this country thanks to political correctness.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Really. I think their success rate with the disease is probably related to misreporting their success rate.

[Marie]

I’m seeing a shocking amount of common sense coming from our government this morning.

[Kartographer]

You don’t think that they would lie about something like that now do you? ;-)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Obola just wants to find out what they did so he can make sure we don't do it.

[refermech]

What if they decide to quarantine conservatives?

[MeshugeMikey]

In Real Estate its Location, Location, Location.

IN POLITICS it's Timing, Timing, Timing.

[MeshugeMikey]

piiing

[Vigilanteman]

Three elements in successful containment:

1. Quick identification of the carrier and contacts.
   
2. Placing the same under quarantine.
   
3. Monitoring for 21 days or more to ensure they were disease free before letting them back into the general public.

We couldn't do #1, because that would be considered profiling. Plus it might disproportionately affect people of color.

If we did #2, we would have to keep them in five star hotels or isolated hospital wings because, otherwise, they might get their feelings hurt or feel stigmitized.

As for #3, it would have all the disadvantages of #1 and #2.

[jimmygrace]

Our JV president needs help wherever he can find it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Kind Sir or Ma’am,

I am Ajayi Omotunde, the Nigerian Minister of health and would be glad to provide you with the Nigerian Master Plan for Preventing the Spread of Ebola. All I require is an e-mail address and your savings account number.

Respectfully,
Ajayi Omotunde

[TurboZamboni]

not to worry. if he can heal oceans, he can heal you.

“this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ...”~~Barack Obama upon winning the Democratic nomination for presidency conveys his thinking of what that means for the world, Tuesday, JUNE 03, 2008”

[i_robot73]

Forgot rule #0: DON’T IMPORT THE INFECTION/INFECTED (kill as much travel from the hot-zone as possible and secure the border)

[MNDude]

with all those wealthy princes and widows there, it’s no surprise they’ve found the means to contain it.

[justlurking]

A couple of interesting things in the article:

The man who imported Ebola into US was found to have travelled to Liberia without informing the authorities and did not disclose the nature of his ailment to the nurse that attended to him. Reports from Texas yesterday said that the Nurse who attended to the man has also taken ill for Ebola in Texas.

I hadn't heard this. Has anyone seen confirmation elsewhere?

A spokesman for Texas Health Presbyterian said the patient had walked into a Dallas emergency room on September 26, without knowing that he contacted the deadly virus and left after he was treated. He then returned to the facility on September 28 where it was determined he likely had Ebola and was isolated. He tested positive Tuesday, health officials said.

I think this is BS. The guy knew he had been exposed to Ebola. He helped take a woman to the hospital, was turned away, and she died that night.

There has been an extensive campaign in West Africa to tell people what Ebola looks like and how it is transmitted. He would have to be living under a rock to not know he was exposed.

And he didn't tell the nurse.