Ebola Surveillance Thread

Free Republic Threads ^ | August 10, 2014 | Legion

[Smokin' Joe]

I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.

Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.

Thank You all for you participation.

[Smokin' Joe]

Thanks for the link!

[Smokin' Joe]

If this comes here, MD’s will have to wear PPE (mask, gown, gloves, facemask) for every single patient visit for anything. Even a hangnail. That’s the message I get from this. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Now, imagine the effects on EMS responses--for any reason from gunshots to car accidents, the possibility that the patient has EVD would seriously hamper response time and possibly treatment and transport. Decontamination of vehicles and equipment to prevent fomite infection of subsequent patients would add to the problem.

One of the spin-offs of this in Africa is that patients are dying of non-ebola related diseases that either present similar symptoms or through lack of care because of the preventative measures that must be taken for EVD.

[Black Agnes]

Yeah. That’s kind of what I thought too.

What a nightmare.

[Black Agnes]

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/377647/pinoyabroad/news/pinoy-official-says-un-making-sure-peacekeepers-in-liberia-remain-ebola-free

“Pinoy official says UN making sure peacekeepers in Liberia remain Ebola-free”

[Black Agnes]

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/features/natural-health/177579-panic-across-nigeria-over-ebola-virus

“Panic across Nigeria over Ebola virus”

[PA Engineer]

If this comes here, MD’s will have to wear PPE (mask, gown, gloves, facemask) for every single patient visit for anything. Even a hangnail. That’s the message I get from this. Correct me if I’m wrong.

You are right. Wife agrees because you just don't know.

[Black Agnes]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-outbreak-threatens-food-security-in-hardest-hit-countries-1.2752880?cmp=rss

“Ebola outbreak threatens food security in hardest-hit countries
Labour shortages on farms, bushmeat restrictions could lead to widespread hunger”

[Black Agnes]

http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-188210/suspected-ebola-case-nakuru

“Suspected Ebola case in Nakuru” (Kenya)

[Smokin' Joe]

CDC Director: Ebola 'spiraling out of control'

[Black Agnes]

http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Triosi-Flu-not-Ebola-a-pandemic-threat-to-U-S-5731667.php?

“Triosi: Flu, not Ebola, a pandemic threat to U.S.”

(Catherine Troisi is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.)

[Black Agnes]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/09/03/3360188_world-is-failing-to-confront-ebola.html?&rh=1

“World is failing to confront Ebola catastrophe”

[Black Agnes]

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/quarantine-escapee-sparked-more-ebola-nigeria

“Quarantine escapee sparked more Ebola in Nigeria”

[Black Agnes]

http://www.msf.org/article/ebola-after-five-months-where-response

Sad story.

[Smokin' Joe]

One repeated all too often.

The absence of action to contain the outbreak borders on criminality.

[Smokin' Joe]

Triosi: Flu, not Ebola, a pandemic threat to U.S.

I feel so much safer now....NOT!

It seems so many of these articles are based on information from the last outbreak.

I must note that the code phrase "bodily fluids" so often translated as sharing needles or sexual contact in American medicine (thanks to AIDS), really means ALL bodily fluids in the case of Ebola, from tears and sweat to saliva, blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and by the time someone is symptomatic, feces as well. Fomites are ignored, and the whole concept that Ebola is "hard to catch" works best when you are an ocean away.

That sort of normalcy bias/denial has helped the current outbreak expand considerably. If this disease is so hard to catch, why do the numbers keep going up (at an increasing pace). By now, virtually every person in West Africa should have been told (whether they will listen or not) how it is transmitted, and they know what the stakes are.

[Black Agnes]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/04/ebola-might-be-sexually-transmitted.html

“Ebola Might Be Sexually Transmitted”

[Shelayne]

They claimed that they didn’t have anymore to give to the WHO scientist that was infected, so maybe they really are out.

I understand they are ramping up production for ZMapp right now.

[Black Agnes]

But Michael Pooley got it after the WHO scientist that was infected.

[Shelayne]

Hmmm. I had it my head that Pooley was first, so I just double-checked, and it said in an August 26 report that Pooley had already been given the ZMapp treatment.

They received the WHO scientist in Hamburg, Germany on August 27, and the report (linked below) says that ZMapp had run out, so he would just be getting “supportive care”.

If what was reported is correct, the scientist missed it by *thismuch*. I should do a search to see if there is any update on his condition. It would seem that if one were to have a chance outside of any effective serum, early treatment is it, and he did get that.

sources:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-scientist-begins-treatment-for-ebola/

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/26/british-ebola-victim-will-pooley-drug-zmapp

[Shelayne]

Apologies if posted already:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/another-ebola-victim-dies-p-harcourt/?

LAGOS — The first confirmed Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, case that was also one of the three persons quarantined in Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has died of the disease.

The deceased, an elderly woman, is the seventh Ebola fatality to be recorded in the country, and the first death in the new Port Harcourt isolation centre for Ebola.