Atlanta hospital to receive its third American Ebola patient Tuesday

Fox News ^ | September 9, 2014 | Fox News

[Raebie]

An Atlanta hospital is preparing to receive its third Ebola patient Tuesday after successfully treating two other American aid workers for the virus that has killed thousands in West Africa.

Emory University Hospital said that the patient, whose name has not yet been released, was expected to arrive sometime Tuesday and would be treated in its isolation unit. Last month, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were released from the same hospital after recovering from Ebola.

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Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. James Wilson said the patient, as in the prior two cases, would be flown into Dobbins Air Reserve Base outside Atlanta.

The patient is believed to be a doctor who had been working in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that the doctor was in stable condition in the country's capital, Freetown, and would be evacuated. The State Department confirmed that the doctor was from the U.S.

[Raebie]

Ping

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[null and void]

Has anyone heard from Mother Abigail lately?

[driftdiver]

Thought he was going to Omaha?

[Black Agnes]

This is a different one.

[Raebie]

This is a 4th healthcare worker...so that makes 4 in total. The one referenced the other day is being treated in Omaha.

[pepsionice]

Maybe it’s just me....but wouldn’t we want to have one single facility handling these guys.....at some military base in Nevada...and limit all potential accidents? Or is the strategy to have forty different medical handling facilities and ensure the spread across the US as much as possible?

[Blue Highway]

You would think the idea of isolating a disease would mean just that instead of having multiple places for the disease to not be so isolated.

[Ingtar]

They had better prepare for a lot more. US military being moved in to help, ie expose them to the disease.

[VAFreedom]

i can see advantages to both models.

they probably want to spread the experience around

[ansel12]

We have four of these specialized isolation, infectious disease centers. Georgia, Nebraska, Maryland, and Montana.

Remember that Ebola, Sars, etc, has been being handled in labs all over America, for years, for instance in Atlanta Ebola has been being shipped in from around the world for many years, and research conducted and animals infected, they built the Emory isolation treatment clinic just down the street from the lab.

[FreedomPoster]

GA Ping.

[Airwinger]

Wife and I started watching that again last night...

[DouglasKC]

They’re playing with fire...

[MWFsFreedom]

“They had better prepare for a lot more. US military being moved in to help, ie expose them to the disease.”

I’m glad you brought this up again. It is frightening to me to think of the soldiers put in harm’s way like this. These 4 healthcare workers knew the risks, and chose to assume them anyway, and I’m so grateful there are people willing to do the work they do, but the soldiers would be compelled to enter the danger zones. The medical volunteers knew better than anyone how to protect themselves, and had extensive medical education and training—unlike our soldiers—and still they were infected. It is frightening indeed.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!