Posted on 10/05/2014 4:39:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An American patient treated for Ebola in Nebraska then released is now in isolation in a hospital in Massachusetts. And an Ebola patient in Dallas has slipped into critical condition.
Dr. Richard Sacra, who had been previously treated for Ebola, went to an emergency room early Saturday in Boston with a cough and fever, said missionary organization Serving in Mission. He was afraid he might have pneumonia.
Doctors there don't believe his symptoms point to a recurrence of Ebola, but instead a respiratory infection. But they are keeping Sacra in isolation, in accordance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, until the CDC gives the all clear.
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Everyone's a critic these days.
Here is the telegraph’s version
Dr Sacra was the third patient in the US to be treated for Ebola.He returned to his home in Massachusetts on September 24 following three weeks of treatment. He was kept in the special isolation unit, where he received an experimental Tekmira Pharmaceuticals drug called TKM-Ebola for a week....
now he is back in isolation, wonder how many people he was in contact with prior to re-hospitalization
The “pink eye” thing is bothering my Spidey sense. Ebola makes the eyes red, due to blood leakage. Isolation? Why? We are living in Obama-world now. No truth to be found.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Ebola runs your body to liquid in a couple of days. That does not seem to be the case here..
“He has a cough and conjunctivitis, commonly known as pinkeye, hospital officials said.”
I’m no Doctor, nor am I a Registered Nurse but that makes no sense to me.
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...
The US petri dish offers a whole new menu for Mr. Ebola. White meat full of all sorts of body altering substances.
Thanks for the ping!
“Ebola runs your body to liquid in a couple of days.”
Thanks for bring that up. I just read a few days ago an “expert” that said the same thing. He said Ebola turns everything, including bones, into mush in a couple of days. He said that this outbreak is actually Marburg.
Anyone know anything more about this? I tried a little research and it quickly becomes confused with “same family”, etc. references.
I don’t guess it makes much difference. Same results, but it would be nice to know if this has been “confused” from the start and they are just sticking with the name.
The first reports back in March said:
“Guinean experts had been unable to identify the highly contagious disease - whose symptoms include high fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding - since it was first recorded in February.
The health ministry said three of 12 virus samples sent to France were confirmed as Ebola, according to results they received on Friday.”
also
“if you have to fall sick with a viral hemorrhagic fever from the Marburg-Ebola family, which one should you choose?
Go with Marburg. Though we don’t know very much about how these viruses work, history suggests that between a quarter and half of all people who get Marburg die from it; there is a 90 percent mortality rate among those who contract Ebola. These numbers may be revised in light of the Marburg outbreak in Angola, however. Early reports indicate a mortality rate of nearly 100 percent.”
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There is absolutely nothing to worry about! 
Anyone know anything more about this? I tried a little research and it quickly becomes confused with “same family”, etc. references.
No, Ebola does not cause the body to turn into mush. I think someone took The Hot Zone a little too literally when they said that.
Ebola and Marburg are cousins, both of the filovirus family, and cause nearly identical disease. This outbreak is not Marburg. Since testing for illness involves looking directly at the virus genome, it is impossible to mistake Marburg for Ebola or vice versa. In fact, these tests are so specific for the Ebola Zaire virus that they won't detect virus at all if a different kind of Ebola virus is tested.
“if you have to fall sick with a viral hemorrhagic fever from the Marburg-Ebola family, which one should you choose?
I would choose Ebola Reston, since it has never caused a human death, although testing showed that 15 people have had it.
The overall death rate of Marburg is 80%. The overall death rate of Ebola (all strains) is 67%. The overall death rate of Ebola Zaire, the strain responsible for this outbreak, is 79%. The death rate for this particular outbreak cannot be accurately determined because the outbreak is ongoing and we do not know the disposition of every case, but the interim death rate is less than 60%.
I don't know who that "expert" you read the other day is, but it is clear that he knows nothing about Ebola or Marburg.
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