Posted on 10/11/2014 2:49:50 PM PDT by lulu16
It can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu, so imagine how 22-year-old Fatu Kekula felt nursing her entire family through Ebola. Her father. Her mother. Her sister. Her cousin. Fatu took care of them all, single-handedly feeding them, cleaning them and giving them medications.
And she did so with remarkable success. Three out of her four patients survived. That's a 25% death rate -- considerably better than the estimated Ebola death rate of 70%.
Fatu stayed healthy, which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with Ebola, and she didn't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits and goggles used in Ebola treatment units.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Be sure to to watch the video and see this strong and beautiful girl.
This other article goes into more of the medical treatment. She is a nursing student and used a drip IV and had access to the drugs used to treat HIV.
"She gave him blood pressure medicine, antibiotics, analgesics for his fever and splitting headache. She even gave him an antiretroviral medicine normally used to save the lives of AIDS patients."
http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-in-liberia-woman-fight-ebola-20141005-story.html
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God Bless us and especially God Bless this girl who saved her God-believing family.
Sounds like she is really smart and took all the precautions she could within her situation. I would love to read about what she did exactly in each situation.
So, if “Patient Zero’s” family had taken a little better care of him...
Not buying what they are selling.
Please read both articles at the links. If you find another that has more information, please post it.
What I would like more detail is on the technique she used to shrug off her clothing without contaminating herself.
If she changed clothing between caring for her family, which she separated into each room?
How did she apply chlorine to herself and to what proportion?
She had a doctor to talk to on a phone ( because he would not visit.) I think this would be a great help.
I am of the belief that a triage for potential Ebola victims should be away from our medical centers and that homes should be prepared for nursing patients. In this article, she merely treated the symptoms and I think most people would gladly do this for their own loved ones.
Why not? Her family clearly has a genetic advantage, statistically it happens. The fatality was her cousin, Alfred, he lost the genetic shuffle for the better genes.
Or it could be luck, or her precautions helped.
If ever there was a time for robots, this is it.
I don’t want to rain on anybody’s parade here but Ebola has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years before it was discovered by westerners(Whites)and given its name.
I’m sure there are generations of African’s that have been boor with a partial immunity to the disease.
That’s why if it gets loose in the U.S. the fatality rate will be so great.No Native Born American will have immunity to the disease and the hospitals will not be able to handle the number of patients that they will be receiving.
Thanks to Obama we’re screwed.
Bring Out Your Dead
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
From the article:
“.....She even gave him an antiretroviral medicine normally used to save the lives of AIDS patients.” “
No FDA or AMA to tell her what she couldn’t do.
That’s why she succeeded.
A Med student here that did the same thing as she, would be in big trouble
I am going to learn how to give a IV. My mom is a nurse and my neighbors are doctors. The hell with the FDA or AMA at a time of crisis, if it concerns my family.
Robots would be a godsend.
She had AIDS antivirals and IVs. The former could have helped eliminate the virus and not merely treat the symptoms.
Here’s a pandemic movie, The Flu I watched the other day. It is from Korea and it is on a website that you must click to advance the film in eight segments and it requires no sign-ups and it is free. Unlike World War Z, which I could barely understand the audio, this comes with English captions.
I did like they acted quickly and enacted a quarantine before the virus infected the whole country. And I would like to believe that the man who spoke English and had the power to set off the bombers, was from the UN and was not American.
Recently, I bought from an aquarium supply penicillin and cepro equivalents. It would great to have AIDs antivirals, too.
First of all, they weren’t his family, were they. She had not married him and I think their last physical contact was in the refuge camp where he impregnated her. His family was in another state.
I think his family had lived with the mattress, etc., and went about their lives outside of their apartment, asking for things to be taken away, but I do not remember them asking how they could decontaminate the place themselves.
As for taking care of him, it looks like instead they want to be “taken care of” for the rest of their lives, and are using this as an opportunity to press their race grievances, rather than be grateful and help prevent other West Africans from coming over.
Good question. It’s off patent. So if it works, cheaply, that cat is long out of the bag.
Let’s hope so.
That cat needs to be out of the bag.
I couldn’t get the vid, at link, to play. Remarkable story.
I see that she got the BP meds, from the dr/clinic. I wonder where she obtained the IV drip pieces/sets. Seems like she’d need quite a supply of them.
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