Posted on 07/31/2014 7:47:14 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty
First Ebola Patient Coming to USA for Treatment One of two Americans infected with ebola in West Africa will be brought to the United States for treatment at Emory University. One of two Americans infected with ebola in West Africa will enter the U.S. for treatment at Emory University in Atlanta “in the next several days,” according to an internal memo sent to physicians on Thursday and seen by The Daily Beast. The memo offers few other details about the patient, with no stated time of arrival or departure city, or indicators as to the exact identity of the patient. In absence of specifics, the hospital says it’s “prepared and ready” for the arrival, with a “highly specialized, isolated unit” that it designed with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered nearby. CNN reported that a specialized medical plane was already en route to Liberia on Thursday night. Staff at the hospital have reportedly been “highly trained” as well and are aware of “unique protocols” that will be necessary to treat the patient. Vince Dollard, associate vice president of communications for Emory, declined to say who the arriving patient is, exactly, but did confirm that it is either Dr. Kent Brantly or Nancy Writebol, two U.S. charity workers infected in Africa. Both remain in serious condition. Writebol received an “experimental serum” Thursday afternoon while Brantly was given a blood transfusion. This is the first time a patient infected with the ebola virus, which can kill up to 90 percent of the people it infects in a matter of days, has been brought to the United States or the Western Hemisphere. The disease is a spread via bodily fluids, necesitating strict isolation for the patients and thorough decontamination. Health care workers like Brantly and Writebol place themselves at great risk to treat diseases like ebola. In a call with reporters Tuesday, Stephan Monroe, deputy director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC, assured listeners that the outbreak posed “little risk” to America, adding that the chances of anyone infected arriving undiagnosed were slim. In another call Thursday afternoon, CDC Director Tom Frieden said plans were in place to stop ebola-infected people from boarding planes in West Africa. The hospital says it’s “prepared and ready” for the arrival. After advising against travel to the affected areas, Frieden said increased caution is warranted. “The bottom line is that Ebola is worsening in West Africa,” he said. The CDC plans to send 50 more staff members to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone in the next month, adding to the dozen CDC workers that are already there. “It will take many months, and it won’t be easy, but ebola can be stopped,” said Frieden. “We know what needs to be done.” The text of the memo sent to Emory physicians follows: This email is sent on behalf Robert Bachman, CEO, EUH; Bill Bornstein, M.D., Ph.D., CQO, CMO, EHC; Ira Horowitz, M.D., CMO, EUH; and Chris Larsen, M.D., D.Phil., Dean, Emory University School of Medicine Dear Physicians, You may hear in the media that Emory University Hospital plans to receive a patient with Ebola virus infection in the next several days. We do not know at this time when the patient will arrive. Please be assured that our hospital is prepared and ready. We have a highly specialized, isolated unit in the hospital that was set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases. This unit is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation. In fact, Emory University Hospital is one of just four facilities in the entire country with such a specialized unit. Emory University Hospital physicians, nurses and staff are highly trained in the specific and unique protocols and procedures necessary to treat and care for this type of patient. For this specially trained staff, these procedures are practiced on a regular basis throughout the year, so we are fully prepared for this type of situation. We will provide you with any updates as needed. Thank you for your commitment to the privacy and well-being of our patients. Bob, Bill, Ira and Chris
Or the South....in general. After all..we’re soooo loved by the commies. /s
As I said on the other thread. If this gets away from them they should be held PERSONALLY responsible.
Just like the Chicoms would.
Everything these leftists seem to do appear to center around population reduction, whether it's abortion, promoting gays, or getting rid of chemicals like DDT to help kill off people.
Do these idiots plan on making their own wine and cheese when 90% of the population is gone? Or how about the medical treatment to help them from Ebola? Or the basic vaccines we take for granted? I guess these idiots want to live in a post-apocalyptic Madmax world? Are they even thinking?
Why do you think they’re all pushing automation and robotics?
They’re designing the world of THEIR future.
They loathe themselves almost as much as the loathe other people. Almost.
No. They don’t THINK. They ‘feeeeeeeel’.
This is insane, crazy, reckless, almost suicidal. What goes on in people’s minds to think “hey let’s bring in people with a highly infectious disease that is almost always fatal”.
While infectious and contagious are two entirely different things, this is idiotic. Protocols call for containment and isolation.
What is the plane or carrier has a mishap with the patient??? Guess they never considered that.
When the govt sends out Ebola kits, IIRC, in April and it’s just now reported as out of control, it’s not tin foil hat to ask just what did the Obama adm know.
What led the Obama adm to believe Ebola might make it’s way to the states back in April that they would send out the kits?
Was it because of the swarm of Illegals they were allowing in?
Interesting.
It’s obvious they’re trying to spread it to CONUS.
Emory obviously has this nifty facility they’ve been anxious to actually use. And shucky darn that just hasn’t happened yet. They’re not going to give up this opportunity.
Just think of the funding stream they’ll get from this little shenanigan.
If any taxpayers are left alive that is.
this is designed to end badly. obama is delberately infecting this country via illegals and now this.
once it goes out of control he slaps down martial law and begins purging. all his thugs have been practicing with the all-white unconventional targets.
it’s gonna go as well as the obamacare website rollout.
and that was designed to fail.
supportive care, fluids, etc.
there supposedly is a drug being worked on to fight ebola but it’s not even in clinical trials.
Ya gotta wonder, do the elites have a cure? (for themselves, ofcourse)
Obama is going to open “Pandora’s Box”.
A perfect target for death loving islamic terrorists,
From what I read it was reported in April sending the kits out had been completed, so it had to start several months before.
If it was February or March when they started the process of getting the kits and sending them out, nobody had a clue at that time this outbreak would be different.
I keep going back to the outbreak of the flu in Mexico during Obama’s 1st term.
That outbreak happened at the same time Hillary just happened to go to Mexico and then the illegals started to pour across the border just like now.
0Bamma - making the US suicidal! Should an outbreak occur on these shores, immediately impeach this despicable creature and jail him for life!
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