Posted on 10/02/2014 5:35:28 PM PDT by servo1969
A photo posted to Twitter by New York Post web editorial assistant Connor Ryan shows an unprotected family member delivering food to the quarantined Texas family of the Liberian man hospitalized with Ebola.
Red Cross worker delivers supplies to quarantined family of Ebola victim in Dallas. http://t.co/KL8jrwAJBg pic.twitter.com/cw9frK9tJK
— Connor Ryan (@connortryan) October 2, 2014
Photo: James Breeden/Splash News
In the photo, a quarantined family member is bringing in supplies left at the apartment door by Red Cross volunteers.
More… The media also released these shocking photos today:
WFAA image of individuals pressure washing Mr. Duncan’s ebola laced vomit from the pavement/sidewalk. The men are not wearing any biohazard protective clothing or gear and there is a woman walking through the liquid in the parking lot wearing sandles. (wtd)
Here’s another photo of the unprotected worker cleaning up Ebola vomit on the sidewalk with a power washer.
A worker power washes the sidewalk in front of the apartment unit at The Ivy Apartments where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas October 2, 2014. Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, and four people have been quarantined in a Dallas apartment, health officials said on Thursday. (REUTERS/Mike Stone)
The CDC cares about liberal elites AND third world hellholes... The guy with the pressure cleaner is an American job holder... they don't give a crap about him. As you can see from the picture...
You are so right. These exposed people will then go to their jobs in schools, offices, stores all over Dallas. What a disaster. They will try to lie to us about the amount infected.
The CDC is doing contact tracing now. That is an old and effective method of containing infectious disease outbreaks. It worked when a case of Ebola got into Senegal, and was the only case there. It worked in Nigeria, which quickly stamped out its imported outbreak. It's underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is also having an Ebola outbreak. There may be other cases from this, but I would be surprised if it isn't contained quickly.
or listen to Metallica.
There are perfectly good reasons this virus is running rampant in Africa, that culture has some notion that ebola is caused by bad luck or evil spirits so who the hell needs to worry about sanitation and quarantine.
If ebola does take off here, it will be mostly within the holders peoples culture which isn’t really much different than their brothers in Africa.
Purple drank?
Hazmat suits? Only if you break a lightbulb. These unsuspecting people are being sacrificed.
Where is Al Sharpton, now that he is really needed?
And the good news from a thread here on FR a bit later in the day:
NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola 10/2/2014, 6:34:18 PM · by TigerClaws · 21 replies NBC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210581/posts
Posted on 10/2/2014, 6:34:18 PM by TigerClaws
An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.
As the stockbrokers say, past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
Someday, there will be more papers written about this outbreak, with a slightly different strain of Ebola, and they will change the field of peer-reviewed knowledge. Unfortunately, the lessons learned will be after the fact, unless people pay attention to what isn't working now.
While I understand your reticence to part with the peer-reviewed standard, it is much like fighting the current war using the last war's tactics. Sometimes that works, but often the outcome is not what was desired.
I work in an environment where accepted belief clashes with new data on an almost constant basis, where results depend on adapting to new information in real-time, and the differences in outcome can be significant in economic terms. A small failure can cost a million dollars or more, and thankfully, no lives hang in the balance.
The data is mounting that the accepted risk patterns and protocols are not taking some factor into account, and that is leading to unnecessary deaths, especially in the health care community.
There will be more deaths before those protocols are altered to match what the data would indicate is necessary to avoid and contain the disease.
It is easy to fall back on accepted scientific beliefs. Have the courage to recognize when those beliefs do not fit the data and you can be a better scientist. We study anomalies, after all.
Informed consent was obtained from the patient or guardian. A convenience sample of various clinical specimens, primarily bodily fluids, was obtained from patients with laboratory-confirmed EHF
The color and absence or presence of blood was noted for each sample. All specimens were placed into sterile cryovials and stored at ambient temperature (∼25°C–30°C) in the isolation ward for the rest of the day (typically ⩽6 h) before being stored in liquid nitrogen at the field laboratory established for the outbreak.
There was a significant discrepancy between the results of virus culture and RT-PCR testing in our study, with many more frequent positive results from RT-PCR. Possible explanations for this finding include virus degradation from breaks in the cold chain during sample collection, storage, and shipping; the greater sensitivity of RT-PCR relative to culture; and, in the case of the saliva specimens, possible virus inactivation by salivary enzymes. The less-than-ideal storage conditions of the specimens in the isolation ward immediately after acquisition and the fact that even the nasal blood from 1 patient was culture negative suggest that some virus degradation indeed occurred.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16652308
METHODS: Serum and oral fluid specimens were obtained from 24 patients with suspected Ebola and 10 healthy control subjects. Specimens were analyzed for immunoglobulin G antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and for Ebola virus by antigen detection ELISA and reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Oral fluid specimens were collected with a commercially available collection device. RESULTS: We failed to detect antibodies against Ebola in the oral fluid specimens obtained from patients whose serum samples were seropositive. All patients with positive serum RT-PCR results also had positive results for their oral fluid specimens.
which shows that pcr detected parts of either active or inactive viral particles in the saliva
And then what? The Ebola viruses scampered across the package to infect the Red Cross worker who was handing it over? The pics show the volunteer delivering the food was keeping his distance. I do not see any physical contact between him and the person receiving the delivery.
I'm not sure why I thought it was pizza being delivered. Guess I'm getting tired...
I ain’t deliverin a damn thing without my 3 wolf moon shirt.
It's not like the CDC can just show up and take over.
If I'm not mistaken, it is Texas officials who have taken control of the effort to contain the crisis. Perry evidently made the decision to place the patient's family in quarantine and it is state troopers who are guarding the entrance.
The CDC is supposedly running the clean-up and identifying the contacts.
You're right. My bad. Maybe I should go and volunteer to make the next unprotected delivery...NOT!
I am not misrepresenting anything. I have pointed out many times that this study has some severe methodological flaws, and that it is grossly inadequate to answer the kinds of questions it supposedly addresses.
Although one might think that blood from an acute phase patient would contain viable virus, the fact that it did not could very well mean that the patient was beginning to mount an immune response and was, in fact, in the process of clearing virus from the blood. In that case, it is perfectly valid to find RNA but not live virus in that sample. The fact that so many other samples, kept in the same conditions (including a period of up to 6 hours at room temperature), contained live virus suggests that the storage conditions did not, in fact, affect the viability of the virus.
As I have said, this study is limited (and for many more reasons than just the ones I have pointed out). But it is the only study that really addresses these issues.
No problem, this Ebola virus is from Africa and doesn’t know it’s way around yet.
I’ve tried to searching for those shows to find out who he is but can’t find them. Any idea?
I’d like to thank multiculturalists and one worlders for this mess. Pox upon you personally.
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