Posted on 08/07/2014 2:05:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Perhaps they should have been taken to the Hospital Ship?
This Dr. works in boston and talks to other infectious disease dr’s about it. Didn’t think it was necesary or smart.
I read that before he left Africa, the Doctor received a blood transfusion from a boy who survived Ebola.
If that's the case, that makes them carriers of the antibody.
I think the docs at Emory are doing this to burnish their prestige in the infectious disease community. Write a paper, go on the lecture circuit.
People in Africa have survived Ebola and they don’t cause further outbreaks. HOWEVER, when recovering, there can be virus particles in the body - for example, men infected with Ebola virus should not have sex for 3 months or until tests show that semen is free of the virus.
Two links:
Simple and Useful Information: Ebola Virus (briefly mentions convalescence - most references don’t)
http://microbiotics.com.ng/simple-and-useful-information-ebola-virus/
Ebola Virus Hemorrhagic Fever (Semen reference)
http://phpa.dhmh.maryland.gov/IDEHASharedDocuments/EBOLA.pdf
Aren’t they already the treatment doctors for the nearby CDC employees, isn’t that why the isolation clinic was created at Emory?
You will note that the head of the CDC and Emory are not risking anything in doing this. If it go “unexpectedly” awry, they will just slough it off and go on their merry way. They will not be held accountable in any way, either professionally or civilly .... the poor schnucks that get the disease and die will suffer the consequences of their actions. Name one Administration department head or secretary that has been held responsible (other than the VA head but not the VA Hospital Directors)?
First and foremost practice of life threatening infection control is containment.
Just like the left insisted that AIDS was not (should not be) only a “gay disease”.
I have to think that this is going to spread much further and faster than we have been led to believe.
I guess it is science to them and they see it all as doable, without going to super complicated and expensive ends like keeping ships off the shore and having family people working and living like isolated hermits away from American life and their children and spouses.
It might be that research labs and such, couldn’t find employees that want to live like that.
I find it hard to believe that we can’t handle running a specialized isolation room in 2014 America, after all, that is all part of the science of medicine and disease, why would we keep assuming that it is over our heads and modern capabilities?
I’m a survivalist and that is the eternal question about the big one (whatever the big one is that month), will it or won’t it.
Is the public at risk of contracting measles or chicken pox or whooping cough or polio from those of us Neanderthals who suffered from these diseases before vaccines were developed?
( The answer is no.)
Because this virus is like no other.
The first rule of infectious disease is to isolate it, not introduce it to a new population.
They forgot the first rule.
I admire Dr. Carson, and he’s entitled to be wrong once in a while like the rest of humanity.
As the head of the CDC said today, it’s inevitable that a hot case of ebola will eventually reach the US, given the prevalence of international travel.
Studying, treating, healing, learning, and developing treatment as a result of Dr.Brantly and Mrs. Writebol’s cases is a significant advantage and could save us from future epidemics.
Ping...
What population did “they” introduce it to?
Then they should have been upfront about. Yes, we are taking a risk, but the motive for the risk warrants the risk. That would of course require them to be honest for a change. Something they have forgotten. Honesty. And even in the best circumstances, these disease can get out of quarantine. Just read the Hot Zone to learn motives of people who left the Hot Zone after they were potentially exposed.
Here, take a whiff ? Does that smell like grape juice to you ?
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