Posted on 10/17/2014 6:01:58 AM PDT by Morgana
It's almost as if the administration is doing everything in its power to spread a panic (come to think of it, when is the last time there was any Ukraine civil war coverage, or ISIS for that matter?).
While one of the big Ebola updates overnight, in addition to Obama being open to appointing an Ebola czar - because clearly the CDC is unable to handle the epidemic, best to have one on top of it all -is that some schools in Ohio and Texas are closed today after students’ potential exposure to a nurse with Ebola furthered fears of the disease spreading, this is nothing compared to the just released revelation that a health care worker who may have handled a specimen from the Liberian man who died from Ebola in Dallas is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.
Just in case an Ebola-infected nurse traveling coach cross country doesn't do it?
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
We have been on exactly one cruise — in 2007. No desire to take another except in Alaska. But, as I now refuse to fly, and we live on the East Coast, that’s probably not happening soon.
Any economy that depends on that cruise ship revenue is going to be paranoid about keeping the epidemic out.
About this cruise ship passenger with possible Ebola exposure; I'd like to know if he/she got on that ship after knowledge of the chaos caused by others who'd been exposed, then risking others.
probably like the nurse who flew to Cleveland and back .graduated from foruck U university. totally a selfish irresponsible Obama minion
Anyome from now on (starting Wednesday) who had an exposure, that's another story.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
This is ridiculous. I suppose the virus was able to bore little holes through the sample container in order to infect a lab worker?
I think that a lot of people perceive viruses as some sort of malignant supernatural entity, rather than a biological organism that basically is subject to the same laws of physics as all other organisms.
I should hope a lab worker is not working in the lab without any PPE.
Thanks for the ping!
lol...and your FR name is?.....Get it yet??
No offense..but some of us need help on the front lines...
No offense..but some of us need help on the front lines...
I am not sure what your point is.
I am a medical researcher. I know what kinds of PPE need to be worn in the lab; I've lectured many times on proper PPE and hand hygiene.
My comment was to highlight the fact that if someone is working in a lab without using the proper PPE, there is a serious breech of protocol.
People only get infections in the lab if they are careless or not using the proper PPE. Handling an infectious sample that is contained within a sample tube while wearing proper PPE does NOT put a lab worker at risk of catching a disease.
What I see described in the article is a lot of irrational overreaction to a non-exposure. I can think of a lot of people--Ebola researchers--who would never be allowed out in public if handling samples in sealed packages made them a risk for transmitting Ebola.
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