Posted on 10/01/2014 6:09:50 AM PDT by Prophet2520
... After the first patient — a dying Liberian-American — flew into Lagos on July 20, Ebola spread to 20 other people there and in a smaller city, Port Harcourt.
They have all now died or recovered, and the cure rate — 60 percent — was unusually high for an African outbreak.
Meanwhile, local health workers paid 18,500 face-to-face visits to repeatedly take the temperatures of nearly 900 people who had contact with them. The last confirmed case was detected on Aug. 31, and virtually all contacts have passed the 21-day incubation period without falling ill.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I suspect, mind you I have no concrete evidence, but I suspect that the Nigerians offed Sawyer.
When you read a description of his final ‘moments’ and his behavior and the glowing description of his carers as ‘heroes’, you have to wonder if one of them plugged him or if they all piled on him to prevent his leaving the hospital and someone jabbed a needle with 2 or 3 grains of morphine into his butt while they all held him down.
And that’s how so many of them became exposed and ultimately infected.
Read this:
That's pointless hysteria. Probably would come across as histrionics in person. What incidents of communicability occurred already occurred. You can't reverse them. You stop future instances. To throw back at you one of your own rhetorical questions to me: How would you like it if one of your family members was in Presbyterian ICU clinging to life after a stroke or MI and got jerked out due to some drama queen on the sidelines having a hissy fit?
Because there are no other hospitals in Dallas.
Because Dallas has fewer hospital beds and physicians than a city in the third world.
I would absolutely want my loved one OUT of Presbyterian if their ER intake routine is that shoddy. They also have a really bad issue with nosocomial infections as well. Mix those two and yeah, I’d want my loved one out of there.
It’s not a BHL4 facility.
As stated prior, we agree on most of this.
Except that I view closing the hospital after:
Especially once their medicos became ill and started dying. Even the janitor at MMA who cleaned up after Sawyer became ill and died.
as strictly reactionary. If we act the same, ('we' being the 'authorities' in the US), well...it'll be ugly, if we're lucky (and that's stating it from a positive viewpoint from a cynic). .02
Nah, they closed the hospital once they realized who and what Sawyer was. The deaths came a week or so after that.
The First Consultants statement noted that it was able to obtain confirmation of Ebola virus disease, (Zaire strain) after working with the state, federal and international agencies. Sawyer was pronounced dead at 6:50 AM Nigeria time, on July 25 and all agencies were properly notified.Once the case was officially confirmed, the hospital was temporarily shut down and in-house patients immediately evacuated. Sawyer’s body was subsequently cremated under W.H.O guidelines and witnessed by all appropriate agencies, according to the hospital statement. “In keeping with W.H.O guidelines, the hospital is shut down briefly as full decontamination exercise is currently in progress. The re-opening of the hospital will also be in accordance with its guidelines”, the hospital said.
That’s exactly what I posted. Once they realized he was infected, they shut the hospital down.
I found a news article that indicated 6 WEEKS later the Federal Government was telling them to reopen it. So it was closed for the next 6 weeks at least.
There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that they intend to permit a domestic infection outbreak for just that.
The MSM is short-stroking people to play down the threat. The threat is real but they take it so seriously that flights direct from Africa are not screened, limited or, for that matter, banned.
Maybe I'm oversensitive, but I'm reading a lot of propagandistic statements in some of these threads' comments....02.
My points are these:
West Africa is the hot zone.
Nigeria is permitting open travel between their country and ‘hot zones’.
The hospital/government waited until it was ‘confirmed’ to act.
THAT’s the sort of keystone cops BS that’s going to cause a problem for everyone...
Well, WE have been permitting travel between the hot zones and us for 2 months longer than Nigeria did.
What does that say about us?
“Keystone cops”; as I stated.
I just don’t see the Nigerians, or anyone else for that matter, taking this seriously.
But everyone ‘talks’ a good game for the masses...
Well, the Nigerians still haven’t started accepting flights from West Africa.
I wonder what it will take for us to shut down the visa mills...
If this is true, it’s an important piece of the puzzle.
21 days from now (Dallas), a lot of our questions about Ebola transmission and biology will be answered.
Togo isn’t W. Africa?
He shouldn’t have been permitted on a flight out of his home country without screening. He shouldn’t have been permitted entry on the basis of his country of origin.
It’s the same BS everywhere. It’s just how the Dallas case arrived in DC before transferring to the TX flight.
Togo doesn’t have any ebola cases currently. Then either.
He was brought in by private car by Nigerian officials (he was traveling to Nigeria to attend an economics conference and was met at the airport by a diplomatic lackey). The hospital didn’t ask any more information.
If you really want to be scandalized, read the link I posted to you and see how the ECOWAS officials tried to get him released even AFTER he had been positively diagnosed with ebola.
The escalator handrails.
Neither does Brussels.
Look: We’re arguing the same point from different angles.
Same BS all around. There’s no evidence the Africans are doing anything better (perhaps ‘slightly’; but a 7.1 is still a bad earthquake, though ‘slightly better’ than a 7.2...if you get my drift). The fact the guy ended up in Nigeria at all is evidence they still don’t take it as seriously as need be. WHO still won’t endorse a travel ban.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...
When all the visa rubber-stampers are out sick, maybe?
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