Posted on 08/08/2014 6:52:19 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
There are 22 hospital beds capable of treating patients infected by the deadly Ebola virus in the United States.
Designed to completely isolate a patient and prevent further spread of a disease, they are located in places like Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, or the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, or the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana.
Ten of them are in the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care unit in Omaha.
The Omaha center for treating infectious diseases entered “de facto standby” late last week
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Ping...
Nothing to see here.
22? A whole 22?
This is for the upper crust of the EXEMPT.
They are protected, of course.
How arrogant do a president and bureaucracy have to be to willingly, purposely transport a killer disease into the nation’s interior?
This does not fill me with joy.
We have “cried wolf” so many times over the last few decades (swine flu, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc), I think most Americans take these things with a grain of salt ... which might be a lead in to a great medical disaster in the near future.
Maybe just a test. Maybe just to evaluate how prepared we are when the ISLAMIC STATE (aka ISIS) starts delivering martyrs with screwed up diseases.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
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...
What surprises me is that nebraska med center is a big transplant facility filled with immunosuppressed patients. Buffett is building a big cancer center there too. Why oh why would such a disease such as Ebola would be brought into this gone facility is troubling. Even if they have concrete rooms,etc it’s still troubling. They issued a a piece on Facebook about how it’s not easy to catch blah blah which I discovered was written by someone whose an editor for Mother Jones and wrote for the Seattle a Times.
Just think if either of those planes had crashed...
Why oh why would such a disease such as Ebola would be brought into this gone facility is troubling.
The Doctors there must not be concerned. We haven’t heard a peep.
Russian scientists visualize Ebola virus molecule
Darn thing can actually incorporate human proteins into its outer layers.
Just a thought I had. I wonder how the mosquitoes carrying the Ebola virus would fare with DDT in use.
Does Ebola now join Malaria to make a new total of deaths attributable to Rachel?
All viruses do that. It is a consequence of the way they replicate.
Unless she is trained to work in a containment suite, there is little chance she would be involved with the care of an Ebola patient brought to that hospital.
The containment suites are built in such a way that no virus will ever escape. Workers entering the suite wear impermeable spacesuits. An accidental needle stick or other event that causes damage to the spacesuit could expose a worker... but short of penetration with sharp objects, the suits are impermeable.
One of my nieces former roommates, and long time friend, works in that hospital.
This does not fill me with joy.
You might want to call her and get the straight dope before you panic.
I’d think that the case of the American who collapsed and died in Nigeria, passing his infection on to at least eight others who cared for and cleaned up after him, would be a worst case scenario. Once they get to the containment facility, things are more controlled and safer, even for the medical staff.
Thanks, good info. I’m just four freeway hours away from one of those labs. Phew.
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