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.
Jesse Jackson heading to Dallas to solve the problem of Ebola!
GREAT post. Thank you.
Great cartoon, and so true! ....but the medical attendants should be in t-shirts, Bermuda shorts, and flip flops the way the government is treating the latest arrivals.
At this point I can only assume the Kenyan is trying to strike back at the white colonial oppressors (any cracka will do) by infecting them with an African disease.
http://www.thelocal.no/20141007/norwegian-ebola-victim-to-get-worlds-last-dose-of-zmapp?
“The Norwegian woman, infected by the Ebola in Sierra Leone and currently receiving treatment in Oslo, will get the last dose of the virus treatment medicine ZMapp available in the world.”
As I’ve said before. Is this REALLY the really super duper LAST does of ZMapp or are there more ‘This one is REALLY REALLY REALLY the REALLY last dose of ZMapp’’s floating about in a freezer somewhere...?
Because it really does look like they’ve got a stash. But only for the ‘right sort of people’.
It actually looks more like a Dalek but really does use as sort of death ray. Just wear sun glasses around it.
http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/2014/10/06/ebola-killing-robot-developed-in-texas/16794187/
"Ebola killing robot developed in Texas11:16 p.m. EDT October 6, 2014San Antonio, TX (KENS) - A local invention may turn out to be a key piece of technology in the fight against Ebola. It's a robot used by hospitals to disinfect and destroy bacteria and viruses.
Meet "Little Moe" the germ-zapping robot.
"What's inside here is a xenon bulb," said Mark Stibich, PH.D.
That bulb emits powerful UV light, which fuses the DNA of a virus and kills it. This powerful technology is now being used in 250 hospitals across the U.S. Little Moe was developed in the Alamo City by Xenex. Its customers include the University Health System in San Antonio and the Dallas hospital where doctors are treating the first man ever diagnosed with Ebola in America.
A robot used by hospitals to disinfect and destroy bacteria and viruses may turn out to be the key piece of technology in the fight against Ebola.
"We have been communicating with them and supporting them in any way we can," said Stibich.
Dr. Mark Stibich with Xenex said these robots can rid a hospital room of germs in 5 minutes and destroy Ebola on any surface in 2 minutes.
"The operator will come in they log in," he explained.
And leave the robot in a room by itself. It pulses UV light 1.5 times per second cleaning every surface in a hospital room.
"And what our customers have seen and reported in the medical literature is reduction in these infections in the rate of up to 50 percent," he said.
Dr. Stibich said while the Ebola virus is causing a lot of concern right now, he said, it's not as big as a threat here as it is in Africa because of our superior health care and advanced medical technology."
FYI....
EBOLA FEVER SCANNERS INSTALLED IN FIVE TEXAS SCHOOLS
Hazmat-suit maker Lakeland rallies again on Ebola spread
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Lakeland Industries rallied for the second time in five trading sessions as concerns about the Ebola virus spread to Spain.
Just on concerns about Spain? uh, huh
Spanish nurse’s Ebola infection blamed on substandard equipment
Staff at Madrid’s Carlos III hospital say protective suits do not meet WHO standards as second nurse undergoes tests for virus
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
The Guardian, Tuesday 7 October 2014 07.12 EDT
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/ebola-crisis-substandard-equipment-nurse-positive-spain
Health professionals in Madrid have blamed substandard equipment and a failure to follow protocol for the first case of Ebola to be contracted outside west Africa.
Health authorities announced on Monday that a Spanish nurse at Madrid’s Carlos III hospital who treated a patient repatriated from Sierra Leone had twice tested positive for Ebola.
Her husband had also been admitted to hospital and was in isolation, and a second nurse from the same team that treated both repatriated Ebola victims was also being tested. In this case, the nurse contacted the authorities on Monday complaining of a fever. She was in isolation in the Carlos III Hospital while authorities waited for the test results, a spokesperson for the Madrid regional government said.
Staff at the hospital told El País that the protective suits they were given did not meet World Health Organisation (WHO) standards, which specify that suits must be impermeable and include breathing apparatus. Staff also pointed to latex gloves secured with adhesive tape as an example of how the suits were not impermeable and noted that they did not have their own breathing equipment.
The nurse was part of a team attending to missionary Manuel García Viejo, 69, who died four days after being brought to Carlos III hospital on 20 September. The same team, including the nurse, also treated missionary Miguel Pajares, 75, who was repatriated from Liberia in August and died five days later.
Staff at the hospital said waste from the rooms of both patients was carried out in the same elevator used by all personnel and, in the case of the second patient, the hospital was not evacuated.
The European commission said on Tuesday it had written to the Spanish health minister “to obtain some clarification” on how the nurse had become infected when all EU member states were supposed to have taken measures to prevent transmission.
“There is obviously a problem somewhere,” the commission spokesman Frédéric Vincent said.
Spanish health authorities have said that professionals treating Ebola patients in Spain always follow WHO protocols. The nurse would have entered García Viejo’s room just twice, said Antonio Alemany, from the regional government of Madrid, both times wearing protective equipment.
“We don’t know yet what failed,” Alemany said. “We are investigating the mechanism of infection.”
The nurse was in a stable condition. She had alerted the ministry of a slight fever on 30 September and been checked into a hospital in Alcorcón, on the outskirts of Madrid, with a high fever on Monday.
The nurse, who is married with no children, was transferred to Carlos III hospital early on Tuesday morning.
El Mundo reported that it was the nurse who asked to be tested for Ebola, having to insist repeatedly on being tested before it was done on Monday.
While staff at the Alcorcón hospital were waiting for the test results, the nurse remained in a bed in the emergency room, separated only by curtains from other patients, hospital staff told El Mundo. Their version of events clashes with that of health authorities, who have said the patient was isolated from the first moment.
The woman was on holiday at an unknown location when she began showing symptoms. “We are drawing up a list of all the people she may have been in contact with, including with health professionals at the Alcorcón hospital,” said Alemany, estimating that more than 30 people were being monitored for any sign of symptoms.
In August, Spain became the first European country in the current, fast-spreading outbreak to evacuate patients for treatment. The decision prompted concern among health professionals, who said Spanish hospitals were not adequately equipped to handle Ebola.
Ebola Protective Suits Are In Short Supply
by JACKIE NORTHAM
October 07, 2014 5:06 AM ET
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/07/354230895/ebola-protective-suits-are-in-short-supply?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=health
Listen to the Story
Morning Edition 4 min 30 sec
The Ebola outbreak created a demand for personal protective equipment. Clinics can go through hundreds of PPE suits a day. Manufacturers increased production but agencies say there’s still a shortage.
She thinks that:
The Nurse assistant's N95 mask, goggles, double water impermiable gown and double gloves should have protected her from the ‘mechanically fluffed’ Ebola droplets in the dead priest's diapers and bed sheets.
We are dealing with a bloodborne disease with a possible secondary route through droplet transmission after all.
I know. The response was all I needed to see a very simple mind. Sometimes you have to right people off, even if their understanding is a danger to themselves and others.
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