Posted on 10/06/2014 10:46:39 AM PDT by FR_addict
On the night of Sunday July 20, 2014, Patrick Sawyer was wheeled into the Emergency Room at First Consultants Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos, with complaints of fever and body weakness. The male doctor on call admitted him as a case of malaria and took a full history. Knowing that Mr Sawyer had recently arrived from Liberia, the doctor asked if he had been in contact with an Ebola patient in the last couple of weeks, and Mr. Sawyer denied any such contact. He also denied attending any funeral ceremony recently.
Blood samples were taken for full blood count, malaria parasites, liver function test and other baseline investigations. He was admitted into a private room and started on anti-malarial drugs and analgesics. That night, the full blood count result came back as normal and not indicative of infection.
The following day however, his condition worsened. He barely ate any of his meals. His liver function test result showed his liver enzymes were markedly elevated. We then took samples for HIV and hepatitis screening. ...
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Great read. Something I noticed right off. He came in with symptoms, but a relative LOW GRADE fever, 100.4. It appears that from Sunday to Tues he stayed with a LOW GRADE FEVER, but worsening symptoms (digestive). Late on Tues, the fever quickly rose from 100.4 to 104. The CDC is using “high fever” as being symptomatic. Clearly, there are other indicators that may manifest first.
Thanks, you are right.
I didn’t do the Centigrade to Fahrenheit calculation.
More than that:
Early Symptoms:
- Fever
- Headache
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting - Stomach pain
- Unexplained bleeding or bruising
- Muscle pain
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/west-africa-outbreak-infographic.pdf
Interesting isn’t it. Sometimes the bodies immune system won’t raise the temp in attempt to kill off the virus until it’s too late. Little kids on the other hand, a cold and boom, the temp is 104 but they are running around. This “high fever” as a gauge may be a dead end.
“I soon started experiencing joint and muscle aches and a sore throat, which I quickly attributed to stress and anxiety. ... Every day, I would attempt to recall the period Patrick Sawyer was on admission – just how much direct and indirect contact did I have with him? I reassured myself that my contact with him was quite minimal.”
Never underestimate the capacity of people to be in denial. Even when someone is a trained professional, when it comes to life and death people will do the dumbest things.
Yep, they have all that. How with the tests taking 12 hours min. are they going to rule out 100 other diseases?
There are also cases of Ebola in which there is a higher temp, then the temp lowers to normal (apyrexial).
The whole process can take as little as three to four hours.
How Hospitals Test for Ebola
http://www.newsweek.com/how-hospitals-test-ebola-274898
That is great if you live close enough to a testing facility. This is going to be messy with “flu season”, the enterovirus, asthma attacks, food poisoning..... They are going to have to do some quick triaging at ERs.
“Even with the symptoms, I did not believe I had Ebola. After all, my contact with Sawyer was minimal. I only touched his I.V. fluid bag just that once without gloves. The only time I actually touched him was when I checked his pulse and confirmed him dead, and I wore double gloves and felt adequately protected.”
This is the scary part...
I though it was “HARD TO CATCH EBOLA”....
"Even with the symptoms, I did not believe I had Ebola. After all, my contact with Sawyer was minimal. I had only touched his I.V. fluid bag just that once without gloves. The only time I actually touched him, was when I took his pulse and pronounced him dead, and I wore double gloves and felt adequately protected."
beat me to it.
Nigeria seems to have a better handle on Ebola than we do.
Great account! She sounds like a wonderful woman and great doctor and Christian.
I have always wondered, in passing, if Patrick Sawyer didn’t have some particularly virulent strain of the disease. A lot of people who came into contact with him died.
That IS frightening.
Nigeria had one of the best success rates of people living following Patrick Sawyer's infection.
After the first patient — a dying Liberian-American — flew into Lagos on July 20, Ebola spread to 20 other people there and in a smaller city, Port Harcourt.
They have all now died or recovered, and the cure rate — 60 percent — was unusually high for an African outbreak.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-outbreak-in-nigeria-appears-to-be-over.html
Although the first patient, a businessman named Patrick Sawyer, was vomiting on his flight in, none of the roughly 200 others on the plane fell ill. Others did after helping him into a taxi to a hospital.
And a patient in Port Harcourt went to her church and became violently ill during a ceremony in which the congregation laid hands on her. But none became infected.
A remarkable testimony. Thank you.
Nigeria contains Ebola Successfully – and US officials want to know more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3212009/posts?page=1
Nigeria is using common sense to fight it, which seems to be lacking here.
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