Posted on 03/12/2015 3:03:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An American health worker volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with the deadly virus and will be headed to the United States for treatment, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The patient, who has not been identified, will be isolated and flown to the NIH Clinical Center Special Clinical Studies Unit in Maryland, which is one of four hospitals in the country with isolation units prepared for Ebola patients. This will be the NIH's second Ebola patient. The patient is scheduled to be admitted on Friday, officials said.
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
My best guess is they are becoming the guinea pigs for ebola drugs.
Follow the money!!
Prayers for everyone involved in this. I sure hope warmer weather does not open a means for this thing to spread here.
I wonder who is going to pay for this one’s treatment.
Because if there’s one single mistake, Ebola is introduced to the American population.
How’s that for risk?
The most sophisticated treatment for infectious disease are at these special treatment centers in the United States, built close to our infectious disease research centers, primarily to treat our researchers in diseases deadlier than Ebola, it is where our Americans need to be brought to for treatment.
Would you want our people to be treated in Africa?
“to the NIH Clinical Center Special Clinical Studies Unit in Maryland, which is one of four hospitals in the country with isolation units prepared for Ebola patients.”
Don't you think that silly thinking was proven nonsense, long ago?
We have had Ebola introduced in America (although it has been in our labs for years), and non of the problems came from one of these super centers, nor did it spread.
I repeat, if there’s one single mistake, Ebola is introduced to the American population.
Actually, given the procedures and other safeguards in place in facilities like this, it would take much more than a single mistake to introduce the virus to the general population.
I’ll give you three snorts and major eye roll.
The mortality rate in US treatment centers for US citizen Ebola patients is zero.
The mortality rate in West African treatment centers is 70%
Arguably, we’ve been lucky thus far.
Not really, while this moving a patient to a super center has nothing to do with any problems whatsoever since this is what they specialize in, even the Ebola among the general population in our cities, didn’t amount to anything.
We were caught flat footed and unprepared, infections resulted, and while it resulted in lots’ of wasted money and printing ink, and expensive corrections in the systems, the Ebola in our cities didn’t amount to a hill of beans.
That also seems to have applied to the other advanced nations where Ebola came into the country.
Regardless of the anecdotal case you site, ebola IS dangerous and it is a bad idea to underestimate it. All it would take is a handful of muslim “extremists” slipping over the border after first intentionally infecting themselves and we’d see ebola cases sprout all over the country along with mass panic.
The anecdotal case?
You mean all of the cases to date that ended up not causing any problems for the advanced countries?
Don’t confuse what I posted, by now switching in midstream to a bio terror attack discussion, they are two different things.
But the government says that measles is the only disease to be feared, they must be right!(/sarc)
We haven’t been too bad with procedures so far. Good thing that the paranoia of an Austrailian politican about suicide ebola bombers has never come to pass.
It’s always great having deadly diseases brought into high-density regions next to major cities.
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