This is one time when I disagree with the great doctor. While it may be possible to “treat” Americans who have Ebola in some 3rd world country, would we want our son or daughter to be left in Liberia to be treated? Of course not!
Emory will take the greatest care to isolate these two patients. There MAY be danger to the caregivers, but not to the general public.
True.
That Ebola threat is coming across the Mexican border and into our airports straight from Africa.
Ebola is also an STD(Sexually Transmitted Disease)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease#Prognosis
Notice the boy wandering around and eating, conditions in Africa are primitive.
A health worker, wearing personal protection gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola virus disease (EVD), at a treatment centre for infected persons in Kenema Government Hospital, in Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone in this August, 2014 handout photo provided by UNICEF August 6, 2014.
Worn out, torn, punctured and threadbare protective gear being reused.
Dr Carson is right.
You have to weigh the benefits and risk of bringing these patients here, and there is more risk than benefit. Someone in charge has to remove emotion that you as a family member may have, and make the hard decision.
Have you heard an update of the two Ebola infected patients health?
I have not, and I suspect something is up.
There is a phase in which it appears that you are getting better once infected from Ebola, then you crash and bleed out.
How come no news lately?
If they want to treat these patients, instead of buidling a unit in Emory, they should have built a hosptal ship.
Get it away from American soil.
Those nurses have the potential, although small, of infecting their children , which in turn winds up in their neighborhood school. Infecting your children.
Then you might change your opinion about this.
Dr. Carson also believes the Iraq War was a bad idea.