Posted on 10/19/2014 6:49:36 PM PDT by Dallas59
Edited on 10/19/2014 7:12:41 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
You have a lot more experience than Obama's pick for Ebola Czar. A niece just became a registered nurse earlier this year, maybe bad timing what with ebola becoming an issue. She certainly has more experience than the Ebola Czar (and she's retired Navy so she has military experience).
Such as Amber Vinson’s mother who was exposed to Ebola and hopped on a plane to be with her daughter.
What hotel is going to have a nightmare if Amber’s mother turns out to have Obolo.
What about Amber’s boyfriend? Is he under observation?
“Why were these cohabitants NOT infected? (That we know of.)”
They obviously knew where he was traveling from so maybe they kept enough distance from him in the apartment when he became ill.
I believe that we may have to waterboard the ebola czar to get to the truth.
But perhaps the secrecy runs so deep that they are telling him lies just to keep him on the job.
It seems as though the Islamic funeral rites (washing and kissing the deceased) has a lot to do with African transmission. Of course, we are too polite to say so but the two cases of contagion in the US are from nurses who cared for Duncan during his last hours. This seems to be true for at least some of the cases. Duncan was infected during a woman’s last hours.
I saw Pretty Boy Jenkins on the news today being interviewed
He looked like death warmed over. Skinnier than usual, gaunt face, white as a sheet. I know the PC Panderer probably hates that latter description, just calling it as I see it.
Very strange.
At the rate Mr. Obama is importing ebola, we shall soon find out.
He’s a strange looking dude.
“People who haven’t gotten “sick” still show up with the antibodies..and thus if they have the antibodies they are good candidates to donate blood if none is available from anywhere else.”
Simply because a person who has been exposed to Ebola and does not contract Ebola, does not mean that they have antibodies to Ebola.
His was Jenkins exposed to Ebola?
Shssss. I think you may be on to something.
Why is that?
That is because Ebola is not an airborne disease, but is spread by prolonged close contact. None of the family were in prolonged close contact with the index case.
The two nurses who got sick were apparently taking care of him without using proper PPE until he was diagnosed. By then, they had been exposed for 2 days. Nurses sometimes have very close contact with patients. There is no excuse for them not wearing proper PPE; that should be standard hospital procedure for dealing with any patient with an unknown disease.
I’m assuming you are asking “How was Jenkins exposed to Ebola”?
My understanding was he spent 30 minutes unprotected in the apt shortly after Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola. He also claimed he gave the family the ride over to the secret place. If the family et al does not have Ebola, which it is looking like is the case, then he wasn’t “exposed” to it. Just sheer negligence on his part to take that risk, and then to go home to his family, to his job, etc.
If they have immunity, an antibody titer can be measured from their blood. Many people in Africa have anti-Ebola antibodies in their blood, indicating that they are probably immune.
“”Why were these cohabitants NOT infected?”
For the same reason that not every hospital staffer that worked with Duncan got infected and the very same reason why if someone at your workplace has the flu, not everyone in the office gets the flu.
According to timelines that I have seen, the nurses were not using full PPE until after the patient was definitively diagnosed. So, for two days, they were caring for him while he became progressively more infectious. Hospital guidelines *should* be for full PPE to be used until the disease is diagnosed; at that time, PPE use can be scaled down if the diagnosis warrants doing so.
Ebola can live outside the body on surfaces for around 12 hours. If he went into the apartment more than 12 hours after Duncan left, he would not have been exposed.
Sue the CDC for what, exactly? For the fact that the hospital did not use CDC guidelines and a couple of nurses got sick? The CDC only puts out the recommendations--it expects local hospitals to be mature enough to follow them.
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