Posted on 10/02/2014 4:21:24 PM PDT by traumer
DALLAS — A Texas emergency room’s mishandling of the country’s first Ebola patient prompted the CDC to issue a nationwide alert to all hospitals updating them of how to appropriately respond to possible cases of the deadly disease.
“It’s a teachable moment, as we say,” Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a Thursday press conference.
The latest guidance includes a poster with quick rules for evaluating returned travelers and a checklist.
The move comes nearly a week after Thomas Eric Duncan showed up at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with what officials described as fever and abdominal pain. Duncan, who had just moved to Dallas from West Africa, reportedly told hospital workers that he was recently in Liberia, one of the hardest hit areas of the deadly Ebola crisis.
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“The latest guidance includes a poster with quick rules for evaluating returned travelers and a checklist.”
Sort of like the alphabet, addition, subtraction, division and multiplication card elementary teachers would post on the walls for quick reference. I’m sure the poster includes the quick rules in the 16 common languages mandated by HHS to ensure medical personnel can reference the properly.
Oh crap! I missed that!
Face palm needed
What a dump neighborhood!
“Teachable moment,” huh?
Who the f*** does this guy think he is? Mr. Rogers?
Yikes that’s scary to look at. Deadly Ebola germs being sprayed all around.
Won’t the water treatment, like chlorine kill it though?
I can’t remember exactly what I read on this, but it’s going to contaminate the whole route through the sewer system or storm drains if it isn’t treated first with bleach.
Dr. Brantly said they poured bleach into the toilet and waited for 10 minutes, IIRC and then it was safe to flush it down.
This guy spraying that water, he’s just really been exposed through spraying, if that virus was still viable.
I’m hearing the virus is viable on dry surface for up to 3 days and wet surfaces a bit longer. I would think all that dispersion with water would render it less potent maybe? I’m hoping they poured bleach on the area first but most likely they didn’t bother.
Not in the storm water run off. Even if it ends up at the treatment plant its risky. A 10% chlorine solution will kill it but I don’t think that’s what the treatment plant uses.
Think if this virus gets established in the wild here.
Uv kills it so hopefully it was a real sunny day.
Someone has also posted that using bleach on parking lots type surfaces has been banned by the EPA-I have no idea if that is true.
The picture doesn't look like there was any kind of disinfectant being used, but it is hard to tell from the picture. Since the guy had no protective gear on, I am not optimistic that other precautions were taken.
I’m going to be very surprised if other people aren’t diagnosed within the next few weeks.
The potential for mass death increases the moment it infects our wild pig population here in TX.
Me too. Wonder if those people being monitored in DC are due to this guy or someone else?
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