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” Long day. Presby Dallas employees have been banned from texting at work. The admin team enacted that. They are trying to lock down on the info leaks. They have the right to check employees texts whenever they want now.
5 or 6 nurses of various rank and a doctor are being monitored. I'm told they have fever and they all treated Duncan. I expect a positive diagnosis for ebola soon if the hospital doesn't try to hide it (which they are trying to do now). I believed my source before, but upon learning more details about the source, I am almost 100% convinced now.
Rumors that Parkland hospital has a patient that may have ebola. “
Parkland is the major indigent/illegal immigrant care facility in the Dallas area. Having Ebola there would have a huge impact on Latino and African-American health care in the DFW area.
Hard data from Liberia not really available.
Ebola Deaths Near 4,500 as Virus Spreads in W Africa
http://m.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/Ebola-deaths-near-4-500-as-virus-spreads-in-W-Africa-20141016
2014-10-16 11:44
Monrovia - A total of 4,493 people have died from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
WHO said a total of 8,997 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola had been reported in seven countries as of 12 October, with the vast majority of these in the three West African nations.
In Spain and the United States, a handful of healthcare workers are ill, while Senegal and Nigeria appear to have prevented further spread of the disease, the WHO said.
“It is clear...that the situation in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, with widespread and persistent transmission of (Ebola),” the WHO report stated.
In Guinea 843 people have died of the disease and an increase in new cases was driven by a spike in infection in the coastal capital Conakry and the nearby district of Coyah.
In Liberia, the UN health agency said that problems with data gathering made it hard to draw conclusions about the evolution of the epidemic, with the number of cases in the capital Monrovia almost certainly significantly under-reported.
New cases
The United States is deploying up to 4,000 troops to West Africa to help contain an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever with the bulk of the effort targeting Liberia.
They are building 17 Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) across the country, a task that should be completed by the end of the year according to Ben Hemingway, the team leader for aid agency USAID’s Disaster Assistance Response in Liberia.
Six such units are already up and running, he said.
“We see the ETUs as a referral system, but there will also be community care centres established throughout the counties,” Hemingway said.
“The idea is that you will be able to get care closer to home so that if you are confirmed with Ebola you will be able to be moved to the unit (ETU) for a longer care there.”
Nearly half of all the deaths in the latest outbreak have happened in Liberia. However, the number of cases appears to be falling in Liberia’s northern Lofa county, the former epicentre of the outbreak on the border with Guinea, it said.
In Sierra Leone, transmission of the disease was rampant with 425 new cases between 6 October and 12 October, WHO said, with the capital Freetown and the neighbouring western districts of Bombali and Port Loko the hardest hit.
Related breaking news NBC
Nina Pham, one of the two nurses who contracted Ebola in Dallas, is expected to be moved to a National Institutes of Health isolation unit in Bethesda, Maryland, a federal official with direct knowledge of the plans told NBC News on Thursday.
The transfer could happen later Thursday, but the official cautioned that plans were evolving. Pham was diagnosed with the virus on Sunday after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia, flew to Dallas and later died.
I can’t imagine if there really are more HCW’s infected they could keep it quiet.
Didn’t they take Michael Lively, who rode in the ambulance after Duncan, to Parkland?
Uh-oh.