Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
An American doctor stricken by Ebola in West Africa arrived home for treatment in Atlanta on Saturday, and U.S. government officials are urging the public to remain confident in the health-care system’s ability to keep the deadly disease isolated.
A charity organization, Samaritan’s Purse, said two Americans in serious condition with the disease were being evacuated: Kent Brantly, a Fort Worth doctor who had been treating Ebola victims in Liberia, and Nancy Writebol, a missionary from Charlotte.
Brantly and Writebol have been hospitalized in serious condition in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Brantly was brought back to the United States first, in a specially equipped “air ambulance” aircraft that landed Saturday at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, in the northwest Atlanta suburbs, according to news reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
‘There is no Ebola treatment. Only palliative measures to make dying easier.’
Believe it or not, this particular strain of Ebola has a forty percent survival rate. Not good odds, but better than 100% fatal. The dr. was injected w the blood of a youthful Ebola survivor, who has since made a full recovery. Be interesting to see how that works out. [Btw, were I in charge (& I’m glad I’m not) I’d have shipped everything possible (treatment-wise) to Africa, & kept the disease out of America. Fwiw.]
Seriously? Goody two shoes? Why, even if you personally feel threatened, would you attack people who tried to help others knowing the risks.
I don't think they should be here either but I certainly admire those who risk their own lives to help other.s
True true, he is very blatant about it.
LOL! I wouldn’t doubt that’s how he’s thinking.
It's already reached Lagos, a city of 20 million.
Ebola is already here in at the CDC.
Thanks for the links.
“The Nigerian city of Lagos shut and quarantined a hospital on Monday where a Liberian man died of the Ebola virus, the first recorded case of the highly-infectious disease in Africa's most populous country.
Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for Liberia's Finance Ministry in his 40s, collapsed on arrival at the Lagos airport on July 20. He was put in isolation at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of a city that is home to 21 million people. He died on Friday.
“The private hospital was demobilized (evacuated) and the primary source of infection eliminated. The decontamination process in all the affected areas has commenced,” Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris told a news conference. He said the hospital would be closed for a week and the staff would be closely monitored.”
How arrogant, and sad. If you (and the other self-serving and self-centered critics on this thread) happen to be fortunate to live long enough, one day you will need some "goody two shoes" to help when you are incapable of helping yourself.
Oh yes - that day will come! Then perhaps you will learn, if not to have sympathy for others, at least to respect those who are willing to put their lives on the line to help those in need.
As for the self-proclaimed "Christians," how different are you from those who heap contempt upon the crucified Christ for "wasting his life" in dying for unworthy mankind? (in this case, unwashed Africans)
Ps: the infected medical personnel are being transported at private expense - not "on the taxpayers dime"
How arrogant, and sad. If you (and the other self-serving and self-centered critics on this thread) happen to be fortunate to live long enough, one day you will need some "goody two shoes" to help when you are incapable of helping yourself.
Oh yes - that day will come! Then perhaps you will learn, if not to have sympathy for others, at least to respect those who are willing to put their lives on the line to help those in need.
As for the self-proclaimed "Christians," how different are you from those who heap contempt upon the crucified Christ for "wasting his life" in dying for unworthy mankind? (in this case, unwashed Africans)
Ps: the infected medical personnel are being transported at private expense - not "on the taxpayers dime"
Yeah. But you’ve got to figure those who made the decision to return this guy to the US were aware of it.
Now, OK, I get it, it’s AAAAAFRICA. Maybe things just get sloppy over there.
But all it is going to take is ONE transmission at Emory and we are really going to be up the creek without a paddle.
The interesting story of the last two smallpox cases is illustrative. Although popularly smallpox is said to have ended in Somalia, it really ended in London, with a lab that had screwed up and produced 13 cases twelve years earlier, but had been allowed to keep operating in spite of inspections showing major problems by by the Labor government preceding Thatcher. Investigations by Parliament and the UK legal system resulted in no one being held responsible, although the lab's head did suicide.
By looking at the pictures on this site, Samaritanspurse... they didn’t have any way near the kind of protection given to them in Africa as they will here in the USA.
Automated equipment?
Who will operate this equipment?
The real danger from Ebola is the flood of illegals crossing our southern border. Iran/Al Qaeda/ISIS etc. will eventually take one or more people exposed to Ebola in West Africa and fly them to Mexico. Put them on the bus or train with "the poor children escaping poverty and the cartels" and let them sneeze, cough & puke on the rest of the passengers and, "Voila!" instant Multiple Independently Targeted Biological Weapons.
Obama will have them dispersed to population centers all over the country, completing the Islamic Biologic Weapons First Strike on America.
Very good point about the Africans and their entourages. Monday is the start of the African summit I believe.
Glad not to be in the DC area, then or ever!
Based on that New Yorker report (which I encourage everyone to read - see post no. 42) it sounds like that might be something near a 50/50 proposition.
I am familiar with the difference between viral and bacterial diseases and our comparative inability to treat the viral ones.
However, it is just a fact that we won’t know how effective treatment can potentially be until patients are provided with the best possible care.
I am not claiming this stuff isn’t dangerous. Hantavirus is not dissimilar to Ebola in many of its effects, and is endemic to the SW US. My sister’s best friend, healthy young mother of four, contracted it. Less than four days later she was dead. One organ system after another failed.
I have been a medical missionary. And I am somewhat familiar with this particular man.
This “nutcase” has treated thousands of people for other things while you were sitting at your keyboard . It was not a waste of anything.
He got Ebola. We can debate where he should be treated. That’s fine.
But if you are a fellow Christian, then you need to seek this man out if he recovers, and apologize for calling him a nutcase. He is a rational man, called by God to do what he does. If you cannot grasp the concept, then you need to revisit just about everything that you think that you know about Christ.
I think that helping others is a wonderful thing, but it should be a personal decision, and the person making that decision also has to accept the consequences of that decision.
But now, our country is now potentially going to be exposed to this disease. We are forced into this, the decision to bring these two back is not being asked of us.
One day, I will need help. But I would not want someone helping me at the risk to their own lives.
Charities like Samaritans Purse should not force this on US citizens.
These 2 people should never have been brought back.
I think the risk of transmission is small, but there is a risk, and with a disease as horrible as Ebola is, it should never have been introduced to American soil.
If you are familiar with this man, why did he let his child stay in a hot zone? Pretty irresponsible.
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