Posted on 09/08/2014 10:36:26 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
#BREAKING: A potential case of #Ebola is being treated at a Miami-area hospital, officials from @CDCgov confirmed. http://on.nbc6.com/A1i24K6
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Oh crap
Like I said you’re right.
Never mind the amount of people going through this place, or the ease with which ebola can be transmitted.
I’d imagine people said the same thing about the flu in 1917.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/09/hundreds_tested_for_tb_in_lynn
LYNN, Mass. — More than 30 Lynn Community Health Center employees and 800 patients are being tested to determine if they were exposed to tuberculosis after center doctors confirmed a case.
Center Director Lori Berry says after confirming the single positive test for tuberculosis in a male health care worker around Labor Day, center medical workers contacted and tested employees as well as patients “having sufficient exposure to warrant testing.”
City Health Director MaryAnn O’Connor tells The Daily Item (http://bit.ly/1nIr4xi ) the identified case at the center is “not a reason to panic” and said people should not stay away from clinic
The Center for Disease Control’s website describes tuberculosis as bacteria “that usually attack the lungs” but can attack other parts of the body, and if not treated properly can be fatal.
boy isnt the open border policy super awesome
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It is if you are a progressive employing the Cloward-Piven strategy in your quest to bring down the USA.
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You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Jackson Hospital is an amazing place. MASH surgeons train at Jackson, gaining trauma experience typically seen on battlefields.
As for the unfortunate patient, perhaps their suffering is due to another virus seen Florida these days--Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever.
Didn’t say it wasn’t amazing, just scary.
They would have to have a fluid of an effected man touch them. It cannot be contracted any other way. If the virus morphs, everything changes, but in the years we know it has existed, it has not.
If you want to learn more about it, read The Hot Zone, one of the best and scariest books I have ever read. It’s a true story about Ebola almost being released into the public in Reston, Virginia.
Have read it.
If you touch the sweat of an infected person you can get it. This is in Miami.
Or any other bodily fluid including virus particles which have been sneezed or coughed. The virus has morphed several times. Some reports show the current outbreak is from two different strains of ebola.
It has never morphed into airborne.
Define airborne? You cannot say it is not “airborne” because even the experts cannot say it is not airborne, nor can they say it is. Even in the book you mentioned there were indications it MAY be airborne, again they have not been able to prove.
Is the virus present in material coughed up or sneezed? Yes it is present.
TB in Massachusetts..gee I wonder what recently came to Mass that would cause such an influx of TB cases, could it be those illegals..nah can’t be, all they bring is love don’t ya know
If I recall, the city of Lynn got quite a few of the illegal children dumped across the country.
I heard last week they did..I think someone in the town was complaining about it and she was accused of being a racist..hey when all else fails, just call someone a racist
Some 250 of the dead in the current African outbreak, are medical personnel. One of the doctors infected, who has been flown back to the US for treatment, is an associate professor of medicine, who contracted the virus while working on an Ob-Gyn ward, and *not* in the Ebola detail.
Now, it may be that some of these are due to either poor equipement, lack of full face shields, the heat causing doctors to remove equipment repeatedly, contamination while removing safety equipment, or the practice of people in non-Ebola areas of the hospital not to be fully covered up in personal protective gear.
On the other hand, Patrick Sawyer, who is now dead, infected several nurses immediately after being informed that he had Ebola, merely by dropping his trousers and urinating all over them.
*That* bespeaks problems; the more so as the virus has been isolated from sweat, the viral load for infection has (by some sources) been estimated as low as 10 virus particles, and the virus has been demonstrated to remain viable on surfaces for *hours*.
Do a little more research, and then tell me your thoughts in either direction.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Not likely, considering you need direct contact with an Ebola patient or fluids from that patient to get Ebola. I doubt any Ebola patient is going to be physically contacting thousands of people.
I saw nothing in the book or anywhere else that Ebola can be transmitted unless fluids from an infected patient make physical contact with another person. Where have you seen otherwise?
If this were accurate, all of Africa would already be infected, as would everywhere else, by now.
The Reston monkeys. Ones in different rooms got it without clear indications of how.
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