Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by 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.
UPMC got a large bio-defense contract. I’m am not surprised. This came from the top.
Yes I recall seeing that somewhere in one of the reports
Interesting if for no other reason than Dr Brantly is ob/gyn , and was in a separate building , away from the isolation ward.
Also ,by having a transfusion from a survivor, as I don't believe that fits in with medical protocol for viral pandemimic medicine.
excerpt :"..A colleague tells me she has just lost a family member about to give birth.
It was a normal pregnancy, but she was turned away by every hospital as staff were too afraid to take her in case she had Ebola.
She did not have the virus, but she died because of delivery complications.
Her baby at least survived.
News of the US obstetrician in Liberia who contracted the deadly disease while delivering a baby has helped fuel such worries.
So far 169 Liberian health care workers have been affected by Ebola and 80 have died - a massive blow to a fragile health system.
Next I prepare to go up country to Lofa county where more warehouse space was needed - Unicef has delivered tonnes of equipment, including personal protective suits,
chlorine and oral rehydration salts to Liberia - and more monitoring was required of those other now-neglected childhood killers like measles, diarrhoea and cholera.
Ebola has turned survivors into human booby traps, unexploded ordinance - touch and you die.
Ebola psychosis is paralysing."
Actually Brantly is a GP who was working with the ebola patients. The doc in Nebraska right now is the one who was infected in an ob/gyn ward in another building.
But Brantly did receive a transfusion from a recovered patient.
You are right; I had also heard that prior to this interview. They didn’t mention that in the interview, which I thought was strange—unless I somehow missed it. They listed all the factors to his recovery, and the blood transfusion wasn’t one of them. I did watch all 5 parts of the special.
Hmmm.
I don’t know, maybe the child recovered just before Brantly was infected? I can’t imagine he would have forgotten the child that donated his blood for him. He seems to be a very humble man.
And now Brantly has donated his blood to the OB/Gyn doctor, Rick Sacra.
He was also given a different experimental drug or serum.
Just a note about the PPE that Brantly and his team were using. It was all being provided for by Samaritan’s Purse, so they did not have to depend on what would be available at the African hospitals or clinics. I would think that they had the best possible PPE that Samaritan’s Purse could provide for them.
What do you know, we both “heard” wrong. Ha! Apparently Dr. Buck is going to Hamburg for treatment, so it would seem she is not coming to the states. Her family is appealing to Bill Gates to fund her trip there, which will cost around 300,000 Euros.
http://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/
That would make 2 Africans that Germany has treated so far, right?
Wasn’t there an MSF worker from Sierra Leone that was treated in Germany previously?
Please put me on the list too, when you do.LOL
Ok, I guess I need to start a text window somewhere...
He also was going to the ER to evaluate suspected Ebola patients, and that is where he thinks he may have been exposed. He said he is absolutely certain that he did not get it in isolation zone.
I am wondering about when he took off the suit. The lady who was helping decontaminate the docs wearing the suits got infected, and it was reported that she had not had any patient contact.
Brantley stated that he had a fever and thought he might have malaria, but when that test was negative, he thought he probably had Ebola. At his first symptom, he called, and they sent a person in the protective gear to take his blood for testing.
The quick test was negative, the 72 hr. test was positive, but IIRC, he had already progressed to the point that he more or less knew he had it anyway. He was quarantined at his house, and the health care workers came to him.
The impression was that he never went back to the clinic for treatment.
Did you happen to see Matt Laurer’s interview with Dr. Brantley? I found it very interesting. Franklin Graham played a big part in getting him out of that country and back to the USA.
I don’t know about the protocols, but he was given a unit of blood from a boy who had survived. And Brantley has donated a unit of blood to the guy in Nebraska.
Apparently WHO approves this treatment as one worth trying.
The thing I don’t understand is if the virus can live in Semen for 60 days after symptoms are gone, how can someone donate blood so soon?
Maybe if a person already has Ebola, it doesn’t matter, it’s getting the extra antibodies that counts? So much we don’t know yet, and so much misinformation around too.
I think so. I am trying to keep up to date on this outbreak, and like to read what you and others are thinking.
From what I understand, a survivors blood contains anti-bodies which may prevent reinfection for an as yet unknown limited time.
Since the problem with hemmoragic fever is an 'excited' self immune system over-reacting and results in the body going into self-destruct mode to fight the invading virus,
such a transfusion containing anti-bodies would seem to be beneficial, adaptive and an innovative medical procedure.
If they are of the same 'blood type' , there may be some adaptive benefit. Ony time will tell .
See :" What happens when you survive Ebola? "
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/21/health/ebola-treatment-drug/
NYT: What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola(Last sentence)
If we wait for vaccines and new drugs to arrive to end the Ebola epidemic, instead of taking major action now, we risk the disease’s reaching from West Africa to our own backyards.
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