Posted on 07/31/2014 2:25:13 PM PDT by Wage Slave
Emory University Hospital is expected to receive a patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus within the next several days, the university announced Thursday.
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“Emory University Hospital is expected to receive a patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus within the next several days,”
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That’s strange, I was under the impression that anyone infected with the deadly Ebola virus should expect to be received by an open hole in the ground or an incinerator within the next several days.
actually not one but two patients.... Brilliant idea to bring this back to the US intentionally
It’s a private plane specially equipped for medical evacuation. Unless your uncle or sister or brother, etc. is a physician with the CDC, they won’t be anywhere near danger:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health/ebola-isolation-treatment/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has outfitted a Gulfstream jet with an isolation pod designed and built by the U.S. Defense Department, the CDC and a private company. The pod, officially called an Aeromedical Biological Containment System, is a portable, tentlike device that ensures the flight crew and others on the flight remain safe from an infectious disease.
A U.S.-contracted medical charter flight left Cartersville, Georgia, Thursday afternoon, to evacuate the Americans, a source familiar with the travel plans told CNN. At least one of them will be brought to Emory University near the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, hospital officials told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Brilliant idea to bring this back to the US intentionally
Roughly 70% of them are. Many of us are praying that Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol beat the odds.
Isn’t it great that they’ve brought this/these patients here? Maybe we could’ve sent our humanitarianism to them.
Praying that these two brave souls definitely beat the odds.
Hopefully the flight crew wears spacesuits too. Just in case.
Or at the very least are quarantined for 21d after their trip.
In this case, our humanitarianism is what caused these good people to contract the virus. Medical facilities in Africa cannot compare with what we have; thus the attempt to evacuate and save their lives.
Actually, I hope that both Brantly and Writebol are in stable enough condition to be evacuated, and I have confidence that quarantine procedures once they’re in American hands will be sufficient.
Check out the slide show at the link in post #83 for pictures and an explanation of the quarantine pod on the plane.
It only takes one disruption in that surface.
Just one.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
It’s mam, and it’s a good bet that I know more history than you do.
I would ask you to step back and consider. I am not concerned about any public danger from two isolated, quarantined, ill Americans in the hands of medical professionals in a containment facility. That is most unlikely to be the spark for a worldwide pandemic.
On the other hand, I am most certainly concerned about a great number of Africans traveling to Washington for some political/sociological/policy meeting, which is imminent. I am all for quarantining all of Africa and banning flights from that continent until this potential pandemic is squelched.
My fervent prayer is that Dr. Brantly and Mrs. Writebol recover and that their experience helps develop a vaccine or other treatment against this awful virus.
You have a lot more faith in our quarantine procedures than I do. I pray for them and wish them the best as well, but they knew the risks when they went. If we are to do something for them, I would favor sending a team to them, not bringing the disease to the US.
How will they get from the airport to the hospital? In what vehicle or vehicles? Will they be transported through hallways and on elevators? Will the nurses live at the hospital or will they go home at the end of their shifts?
Apparently I have been under the wrong impression, I thought the death rate was closer to 100 percent than 70.
All excellent questions.
I think if this gets away from them, they should EACH be held PERSONALLY responsible for it.
Like the Chicoms would.
Couple transporting with the virus being viable for 5 days on hard, dry surfaces, and just moving the patients is a huge risk.
And this strain is transmissible through the air as has been demonstrated, NOT solely via physical contact or bodily fluid contact.
Being handled by our gov’t, don’t worry. Has CDC been taken over by Obamacare yet, or is that after the next election.
There are different strains of ebola, with differing mortality rates. The Ebola Zaire strain has historically been the most deadly, with up to 90% fatality. In this particular outbreak, the rate has been nearer 60%, which is still awful.
One fear is that the virus may mutate and become less virulent, thus allowing those infected both to live longer and to be less symptomatic. From an epidemiological viewpoint, the 90-100% mortality rate is a good thing because the disease kills so quickly and efficiently that it does not spread.
All that is to say that the lower mortality in the current outbreak raise questions, as does the ease of infection despite extreme precaution on the part of medical personnel. Is it becoming less virulent and thus more communicable? It is becoming airborne and thus a true threat worldwide?
Scary thoughts.
That’s who it is......Dr.Brantley and Nancy ? Of Samaritans Purse.
They are the ones arriving.
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