Posted on 08/14/2014 1:51:47 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
Another Leading Physician in the Country's Fight Against the Dreaded Ebola Virus Has Died From the Disease, Ministry of Health Officials Have Confirmed.
Dr. Modupeh Cole died yesterday at the MSF Ebola treatment center in the eastern district town of Kailahun where he had been taken for treatment after testing positive for the deadly virus.
Dr. Cole was a U.S. trained medico and one of the top doctors working in the Ebola isolation ward at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown. He tested positive for the disease last week and was transferred to the Kailahun treatment center, but succumbed to the virus he had battled to save his infected compatriots from.
The fallen medical doctor's sickness had spread fear throughout the Connaught Hospital as staff of the country's main referral hospice went on strike last Friday and Saturday after learning that he had tested positive for the deadly disease. However, they returned to work on Sunday.
Both Cole's and Dr. Sheik Umar Khan's deaths are a major blow to the country's health system, which is struggling to cope with the deadly outbreak.
The epidemic, which was first identified in March in Guinea, has strained the resources of the three Mano River Union countries it has hit and of the international community, which is struggling to mobilize enough qualified doctors to contain the disease.
Ping!
That was quick.
over 100 medical personnel have now died - some of them doctors, most of them nurses tending the dying.
Terrible. Just the sort of person they or we for that matter cannot afford to lose. The more degraded the health care system is there, the more likely we will be to face this disease in our streets.
So it is hard to get and there’s nothing to worry about and no need to panic.
And it’s not coming to the USA.
EXPERTS: EBOLA COULD CROSS UNSECURED U.S. BORDER
“...However, a senate aide told Breitbart News Friday that Congress is monitoring the border for a potential Ebola outbreak. Committee staff are in regular contact with CDC, [Customs and Border Protection], and other agencies to monitor the Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa, the Senate aide said. Our porous southern border remains a major concern.
Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, said Americans should be concerned about this.
Its a question for which there are many unknowns, Orient said in a phone interview. We do know that people from affected areas of West Africa have been apprehended at the border in the last few years. I dont know how recently its happened, and I dont know how quickly someone could get here from thereso I dont really know if there is any infected person who could survive long enough to cross the border, but the incubation period is as long as 21 days. Or if they are coming into Central America, then maybe theyre exposing other people who are then taking it here from there. Once you have one infected person, you could have a whole series of other contacts and so on.
Orient said the risk of infectious disease spreading across the southern U.S. border is serious, adding that nefarious forces such as biological terrorists may try to exploit the virtually non-existent security along the U.S. border with Mexico to introduce a biological threat like Ebola into the United States....”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/08/Experts-Ebola-Could-Cross-Unsecured-U-S-Border
Your right. This is all scare tactics (yeah right)
Our media SUCKS.
you know, I could have sworn I read the Officials tell us that its actually not that contagious...did I hear that wrong?
Not just that but at least two have said that because it’s not an airborne disease, flying is safe......
We’ve all seen pictures of medical personnel not following protocol with head to toe protective clothing and the ones (like Writbol) who spray the suits down don’t wear proper protective gear. Then there’s the run off out into the streets with people in sandals sloshing through it. The doctors and nurses aren’t setting good examples. If that’s what is going on at clinics where they’re supposed to know better, just imagine basic sanitation practices of those miles from clinics.
I normally do not get to concerned about these types of breakouts as they often dissipate before reaching across the world. That being said, this particular Ebola breakout appears to be extremely contagious given the number of medical personal it has taken out in Africa. The people that deal with these types of situations are trained to protect themselves and they are still dropping like flies.
Very sad.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
BTTT.
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...
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