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.
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?