Doctor who treated Ebola patients rushed to NYC hospital

New York Post ^ | 10/23/2014 | Jamie Schram

[Rusty0604]

Dr. Craig Spencer, who returned to New York City from Africa 10 days ago, was rushed in an ambulance with a police escort from his Harlem home to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, sources said.

He was suffering from Ebola-like symptoms — a 103-degree fever and nausea, sources said.

While he was in Africa, the doctor had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea, sources said.

[steve86]

There does not appear to be environmental persistence of EHFV RNA even with end stage disease.

Personally I think they should gut it anyway.

[Ingtar]

I went to the dr. with intestinal cramps yesterday. They were ready to freak out.

[RinaseaofDs]

Could be malaria too. If only they could use DDT in Africa . . .

[caddie]

IIRC, Bellevue was one of the Oboli designated hospitals, and THE hospital in NYC that is actually supposed to catch these patients.

[wtd]

Here is what has been posted by WSJ Oct. 16,2014:

"At a news conference in New York City on Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said eight hospitals in the state would provide specialized care should any Ebola cases be identified in the state.

The hospitals are

• Mount Sinai Hospital,
• NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital,
• Bellevue Hospital Center,
• Montefiore Medical Center,
• North Shore-LIJ Health System,
• SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse,
• University of Rochester Medical Center and
• Stony Brook University Hospital.

Mr. Cuomo said the more than 200 hospitals statewide will be prepared to identify a case of Ebola.

[dowcaet]

Yep, ol Chucky Schmucky Schumer implied that NYC hospitals were better prepared for Ebola than the ones in Dallas. For once I hope’s right.

[alphadoggie]

Columbia Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and Bellevue were designated as the hospitals to which suspected ebola cases should be transported.

Columbia Presbyterian is closer to Harlem than Bellevue, so I don’t know why he was transported down to Bellevue.

That said, I’m having surgery in Weill Cornell on November 13 so I’d really like this NOT to be ebola...

[Ancesthntr]

I wouldn’t also want to have sex with someone who was recently in an ebola hot zone either, until I was sure that either the virus was out of her system, or that she wasn’t infected at all.

...or unless she was Jessica Simpson. :>)

The real question is, "Under what circumstances would Laz hit it?"

[Electric Graffiti]

Didn't these rags get the White Hut's directive not to use the word 'Ebola'?

Btw----This doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea with a high fever is nothing but a false alarm. The press is being totally careless throwing around that racist term 'Ebola' in their reports. Hopefully the government mandates education courses in how to report on Ebola. This crap is getting out of hand.

(Saving Steve86/palmer and other Ogabe rumpswabs the trouble of typing that.)

[alphadoggie]

I’d think a doctor with MSF would be on anti-malarials while in-country, but...I’m hoping he wasn’t!

[Ancesthntr]

Yep, ol Chucky Schmucky Schumer implied that NYC hospitals were better prepared for Ebola than the ones in Dallas. For once I hope’s right.

Me, too. Though it would be interesting to see Schmucky have to eat his words, the lying, gun-grabbing, obnoxious little $hit. Being a resident of Texas would make it even more entertaining...but I don't wish Ebola on anyone.

[RinaseaofDs]

You’d think, but you’d be surprised at how many won’t do their yellow fever shot, etc.

[Revel]

It would be far safer and less destructive to just bring in the big heaters and heat the apartment to something like 150 degrees for a day or so. That would kill Ebola.

[bgill]

You can’t turn your average hospital into a Level 4 unit overnight. If that’s the case, then why the heck did Frieden request all those billions of tax dollars over all those years?

[mylife]

Nothing can kill the Dr.

[wtd]

Not sure if 'these rags got the white hut's directive' but the "travelers" arriving at one of the designated airports do get the following:

CARE Kits to track Ebola symptoms (courtesy of Cleveland.com 12/23/2014 @3:22PM)

[cuspofcommonsense]

Well, maybe he ducked out to get some soup ???

[PA Engineer]

If anyone ends up getting Ebola back after they tested to have been cleared from it, that's when I'd get real cautious.

There actually is some troubling information coming out now:

This is from the PFIF and is a post from a webcast answer on Medline.

Reinfection, Reemergence Unknown

Larry Hand October 23, 2014

In response to a question from a webcast participant, experts discussed the possibilities of reinfection and reemergence of disease after initial clearance.

"We know that patients who have survived do have specific antibodies in their blood," said Armand Sprecher, MD, from Médecins Sans Frontières. "Of course, what we don't know is the threshold at which antibodies give you a surrogate marker of protection. It's possible we may gather that over the course of this epidemic, as we hopefully move toward vaccination."

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, from Partners in Health, Boston, Massachusetts, added, "In Monrovia, a couple of children under 5 who had negative [polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) after treatment] then returned some weeks later with positive PCR.

"These are children who had a normal course of illness...and had a clinical recovery, and both of these children became ill in a day or two," Dr Sprecher continued. "They came back and were found to be febrile and [PCR-]positive again. Both children had some neurologic signs. The feeling amongst the virologists is...the virus gets into some parts of the body with immunologic protection, like the central nervous system. The immune response clears the virus from the periphery, the patient has a clinical recovery, while the viral infection progresses in the [central nervous system] and eventually returns and reemerges as a renewed positivity. At least one of the children became negative again."

[PGalt]

The screening at the airport (temp gun to the temple) protocols failed? Good thing the self-monitor back up protocols kicked in. They’ll work until they don’t. Meanwhile, Obolacare costs will necessarily $kyrocket. Cue the death panels.

[hal ogen]

Many of them do so. There are many recent, unassimilating immigrants and illegal aliens there.