Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
Wow
Just like our TSA fondle the genitals of hundreds of passengers wearing the same pair of gloves, I have to wonder how efficiently ebola could be transmitted from someone who had just become infectious by an ear thermometer...
Count the runners...
No kidding. Thought you and yours would appreciate that particular one.
The ‘added bonus’ is spending on the other stuff he listed will be way less if 1M+ are dead from ebola. Think of the savings!
Ummm, the ECOWAS dipolomat DID have Ebola, but survived, should they NOT be tracing all HIS contacts? I see the residents there see the "ostrich hiding their head in the sand" through their social media postings.
I think there is a lot of that kind of deception in this outbreak, for fear of being quarantined.
Those tertiary victims will be seen shortly. Especially if he continued (and continues) to engage in any sort of sex. Even if only with himself...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ebola-mind-us-colleges-screen-students-25171150
“Ebola in Mind, US Colleges Screen Some Students”
http://www.dw.de/frankfurt-authorities-prepare-for-ebola/a-17888387?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf
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Jalloh recently returned from Freetown in Sierra Leone, where he had been in close contact with Ebola patients on a reporting assignment. He was feeling unwell and tried desperately to get a blood test to confirm he was Ebola-free. He was shocked by the response of medical staff.
“You go to the emergency clinic and you would sit there for hours and hours and tell them ‘Hey my case could be very serious, take it seriously.’” Even when he explained that he could be a carrier of the virus, he was told that emergency patients are the priority. “As long as you don’t look like you’re dying, you’re not a priority,” Jalloh said.
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Raise your hand if you think this would NOT be the case in a typical US ER? (I am sitting on my hands.)
Yikes.
I posted that article to the wrong thread. Sorry. Thanks for finding that one and posting it in the correct thread.
And yes, that’s pretty much what happened at an ER in Canada during the SARS breakout. One hospital had a SARS patient show up in the ER, handled them quickly with a minimum of exposure to everyone involved. In another hospital the patient sat in the ER for 8 or 10 hrs hacking coughing and snotting on all and sundry and there was a cluster of infections from that.
Just imagine this fall if you are in the ER if the man next to you is hacking coughing and vomiting. Is it just a case of seasonal flu or is it something else entirely.
http://news.yahoo.com/experimental-ebola-drug-heals-monkeys-study-170316163.html
h/t Tilted Irish Kilt.
Good news for people in first world countries. Not great news for the African victims.
ZMapp is unsustainable for the outbreak in Africa.
It’s in short supply, expensive, and requires an extensive cold chain that can not be broken.
‘Exciting’, yes. Small molecules are better.
And it uses sequences that may be out of date by the time the plant itself matures to the point it can be harvested for use. See the Science paper about how quickly this thing is mutating. Which explains all the false negatives in Sierra Leone :(
Thanks... I am going to pay more attention to Ebola news
“Nigerians Threaten to Burn Ebola Units”
Lovely.
Thank you for this very important compilation of threads on the ebola health issue.
I heard today that there is a case in Dakar, Senegal, a city of 2.5 million people.
We are about to see the 21st century version of the Black Plague.
UGH!
Just think...thousands of African exchange students are showing up this week for the fall semester in American colleges and universities.
Are any of them being screened?
Thanks for this link...it answers my question.
Very few colleges are screening fo ebola symptoms in African students.
Most of the ones doing it are private colleges.
Very scary for parents sending their kids off to college!
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/29-august-2014.pdf?ua=1
Lots of interesting graphs on that one.
The Port Harcourt case, the doctor, was married (also a doctor) and had a 3m old baby.
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