Posted on 10/12/2014 2:40:49 AM PDT by Drago
Health care worker in Dallas tests positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, hospital says in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I recently told my son in Special Forces that since the symptoms were like rampant scurvy, high dose Vitamin C should be tried. Today he sent me this excellent article on the use and doses of Vitamin C in medical treatment. Please send it far and wide. People here shouldn’t have to die, because our drug stores are well stocked with Vitamin C. My son living in Puerto Rico says authorities encourage the use of Vitamin C for Dengue Fever and some other virus that begins with the letter C. He is having a hard time finding it in drug stores.
http://vitamincfoundation.org/www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm
Not trying to don the tin foil Stetson, but doesn't seem odd that ground zero for Ebola is located at what is one of the largest conservative leaning cities in the country? Just why did this Liberian and his family choose Dallas?
Separate rooms - filtered ventilation - etc...this isn’t the 70’s TV show Emergency — things have changed and this virus is definitely a game changer!
Well those three reasons are good ones for taking pretty hard precautions. I wouldn’t be scared to bet that the hospital has what it takes for level 4 decontamination procedures, and yet, since we don’t have the equipment, why do our news reporters and government try to excuse not restricting travel. We truly live in a nation of fools.
No it’s not. However, bodily fluid residue is not always readily visible. And droplets of bodily fluid can be airborne from coughing or sneezing. Plus with Ebola victims, skin can break open and spray blood when they die.
I thought it was supposedly that he had family there but I really don’t know anything.
>> Like that doctor who was admitted to Bethesda on Saturday <<
Can you point me to further info on this? Bethesda is close you my area. Any info appreciated.
Sorry, didn’t save any links. You can do a search for him from the day before and the day that Duncan was admitted. There has only been a couple of tiny blurbs mentioned in other articles about a doctor being treated at Bethesda but that’s all.
Thing is, Bethesda had previously only been a Level 3 unit and, like the others, hadn’t had an infectious disease patient so it’s really just cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Isolation Unit Beds:
2? - Emory, Atlanta
3 - The Care and Isolation Unit in Missoula, Montana, opened in 2005 by the National Institutes of Health to serve lab workers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, hasn’t yet served an infectious disease patient, only a handful with tuberculosis or contagious bacterial infections. The rooms look like everyday hospital rooms—white, sterile, a TV and window for entertainment. That’s because St. Patrick Hospital retrofitted three of its ICU rooms to make the unit.
10 – Omaha, Nebraska Medical Center run twice yearly drills with decontamination at their hospital’s 10-bed biocontainment unit. Opened in 2005. Has never had an infectious disease patient. Prior to Dr. Sacra in Sept., the unit had only briefly housed one patient with malaria five years ago. Malaria does not require quarantine.
7 - NIH opened a seven-bed Special Clinical Studies Unit at the Clinical Research Center in Bethesda to replace it. Its four patient rooms, two doubles and a single (hope they’re better at containment than they are at math). Bethesda unit has only served a patient with a drug-resistant bacterial illness. “It can handle the highest level of respiratory virus, but Ebola isn’t even spread that way,” said Richard Davey, deputy clinical director of NIH’s Division of Clinical Research.
? - US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) – Ft. Detrick, Maryland.
for a later read. Important information.
Thanks anyway. This keeps up and we’ll soon see wide spread panic and that will be more of a danger than the actual virus.
This link needs it’s own thread.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html
Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates
A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.
Yes, it sure isn’t that seventies show. This stuff is deadly and we don’t have a Surgeon General acting as one - we have Friedman who’s just a talking head.
Breaking news Boston now plane from dubai. Hasmat now boarding.
5 people with flu like symptoms.
News conference now Dr saying transfer of virus from body fluids or direct contact with object. Person must be sick with symptoms to spread it.
No confirmed cases in Boston yet. Talking about how they will deal with ebola. No chance to get it if the sick person does not yet have symptoms. Saying no chance to catch through sir.
No chance to spread via air. Massachusetts has confirmed cases of malaria and typhoid fever.
Asking doctor if hysteria is overblown? She says you don’t get through air. Everyone should get flu vaccine. System is in place. If someone comes here I’ll customs and border protection evaluates. If they need transport it’d nt Boston ems
Passengers on board are coming back from the mecca pilgrimage. Hasmat team and ems on scene for 40 members. There is a doctor on board.
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