Posted on 10/23/2014 5:33:03 PM PDT by bryan999
A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the Ebola virus Thursday, becoming the city’s first diagnosed case.
The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday and placed in isolation while health care workers spread out across the city to trace anyone he might have come into contact with in recent days. A further test will be conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control to confirm the initial test.
While officials have said they expected isolated cases of the disease to arrive in New York eventually, and had been preparing for this moment for months, the first case highlighted the challenges surrounding containment of the virus, especially in a crowded metropolis.
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Very true about the decon, but I see what those doctors are wearing now and I wouldn’t trust it.
It is Africa after all, and mistakes are made, but n95 masks don’t seem to be the problem or all of them would be sick. It is decon. Even tyvek allows through itty bitty minuscule particles and these people are treating the most virulent. I say n95 isn’t looking too bad.
I was where u are right after Duncan popped up working on a family protocol. It has matured a bit, but my ass is more puckered over this than day one.
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- What happens In Africa should stay in Africa . . .
You’re so right.
What happens when someone with Ebola sneezes? I’m sure it stays alive for a short time indoors.
6 hrs is the best research I have seen. If they crap on the floor that is infective for 2 days. My best guess from what I have read is it needs to be in some sort of liquid. Dry it out and no longer infective. No wonder the dead with all the liquid and viral load in them are as infective. No idea as if you rehydrate it if it becomes infective again. God forbid that is true.
Silson Global's business (authorized contractor for UPS) was obviously centered on the airport. As was that of Duncan's employer, Safeway Cargo, a FedEx contractor. Duncan was the personal driver of the General Manager of Safeway.
I suspect Duncan knew someone at Silson, and some money, much less than the value of the round-trip ticket, changed hands.
Nope. ... and the hits just keep coming.
Bingo
Someone should have told those 30 million Mexicans!
BUMP!
Isn’t there something in the hippocratic oath about first doing no harm? Where is his honor?
What is this doctor’s background?
Is he a muzzie? Then he has not honor.
Is he a democrat? Then he may again, have no honor.
For sure he has no common sense. Feeling bad for three days, been to the shiite hole where Obola is and have been treating dieing people for the disease. Oh, I think I will go bowling.
Either he knew he had it, is a terrorist and wanted to spread it or he is one major dumb shiite.
They need to start looking into connections with terrorist groups.
Supposedly it causes a cough in the early stages. There is a painted mural in one of the infected African counties that the very first picture is a guy coughing.
I read that as "In this case, we knew he came back from eating Ebola patients." I almost spit out my coffee.
Yes, the doctor seemed to be in denial if he wasn’t feeling well for a couple of days. The nurse who flew on the plane acted the same way.
NBC this morning keeps repeating he wasn’t contagious since he didn’t have symptoms. I guess feeling grungy isn’t a symptom.
The Ebola virus does not survive dry, only in droplets, so the N95 mask is fine. What is not ok is having an unsealed suit. Droplets float and will get around a face shield.
It's the next dozen that will continue to kill Americans, mostly first responders and health care workers.
We need a list.
0. Duncan. - died
1 nurse 1 -
2 nurse 2 -
3 Doctor returned from Africa (first one)
4 african camera man
5 NY Doctor
Dog lung rate us every 33 days. So how are we doing?
In Dr. Brantly’s case it was a patient who was initially negative but later tested positive. In most health care worker cases they are dealing with much more hazardous cases, bleading from both ends with lots of droplets being created. There’s no real protection for that other than sealed, pressurized suits and I have seen none of those in Africa or in ordinary hospitals here. I’ll bet the specialized centers (e.g. Emory) have them.
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