[Tilted Irish Kilt]

The patient is being treated in Uppsala, Sweden, where trained staff are prepared and caring for the patient and are using protective clothing and have special ebola training.
The patient is believed to have visited Burundi in central Africa before returning home.

The latest outbreak to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo in August last year has killed more than 368 people.
Ebola's current outbreak got so bad the World Health Organisation considered declaring a global alert.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease Ping - possible Ebola patient being treated in Uppsala Sweden

The patient is believed to have visited Burundi in central Africa before returning home in Sweden.

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Bring Out Your Dead

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...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[Gen.Blather]

Sweden, the first national suicide by political correctness.

[mewzilla]

They’ve isolated this guy and some of his relatives...

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2019-01-04/misstankt-ebolafall-akutavdelning-stangd

[Jim Noble]

Ebola is transmitted to health care workers during the terminal phase of the disease by unprotected contact with body fluids, especially sweat, wound drainage, blood, and feces which are produced in unprecedented amounts.

The Emory team was replacing forty liters a day in their survivors.

It does not appear that importation of cases is a threat to the public (other than to their wallets, saving the life of one Ebola patient is literally a multi-million dollar operation). Ebola is very dangerous to doctors and nurses, though, in all outbreaks since the 70s between 1/3 and 1/2 of the dead are health care workers.

No HCWs have died under US care, however, and there have only been two secondary cases (in a hospital in Dallas which was, unwisely, following the August-October 2014 CDC guidance instead of using body suits and respirators).

No member of the public in Spain, the UK, NYC, Dallas, or Omaha has contracted Ebola from a patient in transit.

Don’t pass around dead bodies overhead without gloves, and you should be good to go.

Whether or not to allow non-citizen cases into the system in the US is a major policy issue (cost and sanitation), but we more or less know what to do if/when they get here.

[hal ogen]

Note to self: cancel planned 2 month long walking/eating goodwill tour of Burundi.

[metmom]

It’ll spread like wildfire in some areas.

May be the solution to the immigrant issue, though.

[redgolum]

Interesting that this is pretty quiet in the news.

Major outbreak, heading into the larger cities in Africa, people showing up in Europe, at least one in isolation in Omaha...