Posted on 11/06/2014 6:39:20 PM PST by wtd
DES MOINES, IOWA -- <
One person is under quarantine in Iowa and a dozen others are being monitored after returning from west Africa, the Iowa Department of Public Health said Thursday.
An IDPH release said that they consider the individual under quarantine to have some risk of carrying Ebola, while the other twelve are considered low risk. They say all 13 are cooperating fully with officials.
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Brad Paisley Carrie Underwood: Quarantine Song
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The returning individual likely knows their risk level if they’re honest about it. I really don’t know why anyone would lie about something so critical to their family and friends.
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
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...
Duncan did.
How comforting.
One of my best friends lives just a few blocks up the street from the Des Moines airport.
And we're only an hour and half away by car.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
1. Ebola has high morbidity in Africa because of the abysmally poor quality of their healthcare systems.
2. People who die of Ebola in Africa typically succumb to a heart attack, caused by electrolyte imbalances due to the horrific diarrhea that is part of the progression of the illness. The dehydration and electrolytic imbalance leads to irregular heart rhythms and cardiac arrest.
3. Because we have very good care infrastructure by comparison, we have been able to get the few cases into treatment quickly and do things like hydrate and maintain electrolytic levels. So, thus far the morbidity has been much lower in patients in the US. Well, except for the guy in Dallas.
4. We have devoted tremendous resources to the few cases that have been here in the US, and to those who contracted the disease in Africa and were brought to the US for treatment. Probably hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps millions per patient.
5. All this works in the US if the numbers are low. Even our healthcare system would be taxed if the numbers were in the 100’s or if a large number of cases occurred simultaneously in say, 40 cities across the US.
So, I'm wondering if the folks in Washington are thinking that with our porous borders, an inexpensive way to create terror and perhaps even economic chaos, would be to extract the virus from one of the victims in Africa, either dead or alive, and then infect radical terrorist carriers who then deploy to say 100 different cities in the US and proceed to figuratively “hug everyone they can” as they begin to be symptomatic and thus contagious.
Pretty nasty idea, but then again, so was 9/11. Anyone have confidence that such a scenario has been anticipated by DHS and CDC?
I must have meant mortality instead of morbidity. Ooops!
When physicians at the Nebraska Medical Center got their first Ebola case in September, they knew they'd rely heavily on sophisticated blood-test machines to monitor the man's condition. They didn't expect the virus might leave the machines incapacitated for longer than the patient.
Several leading manufacturers of high-tech diagnostic devices have alerted hospital laboratories that they will restrict service, support and warranties for equipment used to test blood and organ functions for Ebola patients. Fearing infections, some decline to have their technicians perform tuning and maintenance the expensive devices often require. Others advise labs to quarantine the equipment after use on Ebola patients or even destroy it.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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