So we know how to STOP Ebola. So it isn't a problem, right?
Except for all the poor souls who get it before it is STOPPED.
Interesting perspective, no prevention, just reacting.
Same difference now between safety and security.
No more safety, which is about prevention, only security which is about identifying the perp after the crime.
No more safety anywhere.
Did they just now learn? Or are they criminal for not stopping before now?
When is the last time the federal government got anything right?
Surgical gloves and masks might be a good thing to have hanging around the house. You know just in case something bad breaks out here in the USA.
Seriously, this is the optic the CDC thinks is smart?????
Stop travel to and from the affected countries.
1. Kill all the people who have Ebola, and burn the bodies.
2. Kill all the people who have been exposed to the people who have Ebola, and burn the bodies.
It's how they treat hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle. No, it's not a viable option among civilized people, but just stopping Ebola is exactly that simple.
This CDC Chief is engaging in “unfortunate choices of words” (I’m being kind here), IMO. If he believes what he’s spouting to the public, we’re ‘toast’. He is stating this can be ‘stopped’ here as if it’s no big deal. It will be a HUGE deal, especially if it gets into certain populations who might react similarly to those Africans who are (for lack of better terms) uneducated, more primitive. Just imagine this stuff running loose in very poor communities, “feral” groups (you know who I’m talking about) or as another example, a certain population who engages in risky, unprotected behavior with AIDS.
On another matter, I heard a reporter ask the Mt. Sinai doctors if their patient who came from an African country & has a fever/vomiting, is currently being tested for Ebola ... if this person HAS Ebola, will they be sent to Emory. The answer was ‘no’, they can “treat” the person at Mt. Sinai .... this means supportive care only as there is no “treatment” that is a cure. The charges of ‘racism’ will be here any day ..... who decides who gets the serum and who doesn’t? It’s not in commercial production, but you just know common sense will go out the window and if there is any serum available, “picking and choosing” will be going on. The two who did get the experimental serum were medical folks so it was definitely “informed consent” and a unique opportunity for the drug company as opposed to ‘human trials’ on an Ebola-stricken population of Africans.
The question about Ebola that I have, and haven’t seen an answer to, is how did these two workers, in full protective gear (think hazmat suits) get Ebola in the first place? I want someone to explain that to me, because the current thinking is that this is spread only through bodily fluids contact, and that sneezing isn’t a way of transmitting it. I wonder if the virus has a new strain. Still, even with sneezing, they were wearing full protective gear. So what gives?
I think you’re reading too much into things. They’d love to figure out how to prevent it too, but so far haven’t. They haven’t said “oh we know how to stop it so there’s no more need for research”, we’ve known how to stop it for a long time, and we’ve been trying to figure out how to prevent it for a long time. But it’s an illusive little bug, hard to find, hard to treat.
Here’s an “interesting” article that just reinforces what I think of the CDC Chief and his blathering:
Many US hospitals not prepared for Ebola
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/04/many-us-hospitals-not-prepared-for-ebola/
A few ‘choice’ excerpts from article:
Many hospitals are poorly prepared to contain any pathogen. That’s why at least 75,000 people a year die from hospital infections. If hospitals can’t stop common infections like MRSA, C. diff and VRE, they can’t handle Ebola.
Frieden argues it’s unlikely people sick with Ebola with board planes, because the symptoms are so debilitating. Despite what Frieden is saying, the agency sent bulletins to U.S. hospitals on diagnosing Ebola, providing protective gear for healthcare workers, and preventing the spread to other patients.
But will hospitals follow the precautions? Unlikely. For example, an estimated 14,000 patients die each year from Clostridium difficile, a health care infection spread by diarrhea. Invisibly small fecal particles contaminate bedrails, curtains, nurses’ uniforms and other surfaces, carrying the disease from one patient to another. The same could happen with Ebola if precautions are ignored.
The CDC also needs to improve its own infection control rigor. In the last three months, three incidents of the CDC mishandling pathogens — anthrax, avian flu, and smallpox – have come to light. Why assume the agency’s ready for Ebola?