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To: Black Agnes

Read it already. Yes, breaches occur due to human error. From the sound of things in Africa, though, much of the transmission to healthcare workers had to do with very poor practices. These were likely due to poorly educated workers and the reality of a dearth of supplies/basic sanitation.
We are very blessed to have all of our modern conveniences, but the things that have made the biggest advances in medical care in the last 150 years or so in the West are the ability to keep feces and drinking water apart and the ability to sterilize medical equipment. Those things along with the knowledge about disease transmission and the importance of washing our hands are huge.
Africa is lacking in most of those things.


193 posted on 08/02/2014 3:20:37 PM PDT by Atomic Vomit (http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
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To: Atomic Vomit

I grew up in Africa. I know about the sanitation there.

Those are obvious means of transmission.

Assuming something isn’t airborne and later finding out it is is a breach. It takes Western brains to do those kind of breaches.

BTW, those buckets of ‘dirty water’ were buckets of concentrated clorox solution.


195 posted on 08/02/2014 3:24:44 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Atomic Vomit

But this Dr. is from here so he should have had better practices, no?


243 posted on 08/03/2014 11:00:07 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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