Posted on 10/06/2014 12:12:54 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
- Doctors Without Borders confirms that one of our organization’s Norwegian field workers in Sierra Leone has tested positive and has been diagnosed with bleeding fever ebola, confirms Anne Cecilie Kalteborn in MSF’s Norway branch to Norwegian media VG.
The Norwegian health worker is tonight being flown with an ambulance flight from the capital Sierra Leone. She will probably land in Norway Monday night or Tuesday night.
- We are working to transport our colleague home as soon as possible, says Kaltebotn.
The woman, who has been working for MSF in Sierra Leone’s second city Bo, has according to VG’s sources been feeling increasingly ill during the weekend.
When the symptoms of Ebola, fever and sickness, were felt, she was put in isolation and lab-tests proved she was infected.
- This is a situation we take very seriously, says the Norwegian Foreign Department.
The woman will be flown to Oslo’s main hospital, Ullevål, were a full team of doctor’s are ready to receive her.
Bo is a district in Sierra Leone that is badly hit by the epidemic: 227 suspected cases are reported in the area were the Norwegian woman was infected.
And we’re sending thousands of young men into that filthy virus-ridden maelstrom.
Probably about a week left on the first contacts.
Understandable.
I was replying to the poster who insinuated that the Western medicos who are getting infected were engaged in extracurricular activity when off shift.
Not that it can’t spread that way:
http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/ebola-kills-8-soldiers
“They knew that he had Ebola. So she should have been following the protocols.
Yet she gets Ebola.”
And yet it’s hard to catch.
Fire the collection of morons running NIH and CDC.
Probably was. It's the "protocols" that need to be revised, perhaps daily as this very clever virus finds new ways to infect people. That's what viruses do.
Heck no. The guy went to the ER on the 24th. He was probably showing syptoms a day or two before. We are probably about two weeks into it. The first contacts should have about a week left in quarantine.
Thanks for the feedback!
“Here’s the article regarding the case in Spain - she was not in the hot zone it appears she got it from the patient she was treating that was brought in from the hot zone.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211961/posts
That article says that she was a nursing assistant, so she may not have been an RN with appropriate ID training.
Thanks for the feedback and update.
“It’s the “protocols” that need to be revised, perhaps daily as this very clever virus finds new ways to infect people. That’s what viruses do.”
Scary and some viruses are very adaptable.
I don't think so. There's a doctor from my town here in Washington State serving in Liberia right now. In photos, he appears to be wearing makeshift personal protective gear, similar to this:
The degree of protection isn't anything like a Level 4 containment suit, and breaches or errors during removal are not uncommon. Decontamination has to be done according to strict protocols with no variances.
Fortunately, he hasn't been infected and we pray isn't ever.
Aren’t we on our third tier of contacts already?
His family is the first.
Ambulance drivers, nurses, doctors, and other patients are the second.
The second visit to the hospital is 3rd.
The pressure washer guy, judge, and red cross food guy are all 3 or 4th depending on how you count.
Steve that photo is so scary.
The poor doctor looks like he is ready to clean up a stable or after a sick animal with his homemade personal protective gear.
After their being denied admission to a hospital, a young woman nursed three out of four of her family members through to survive ebola with more makeshift protection than that, she was tying plastic garbage bags over her feet and calves, used kitchen dishwashing gloves, etc. so maybe they’ll get through it. Maybe.
I’m not encouraged by all these westerners with presumably adequate protection getting infected, though.
“I’m not encouraged by all these westerners with presumably adequate protection getting infected, though.”
That is what’s scary.
Maybe as westerners, we don’t have any basic immunity to this virus, and some of the natives have some immunity.
I predict, since they put this guy on an experimental drug, that within a couple of days, he will start improving. I have my own reasons for thinking that. I could be wrong though.
Time will tell. Omiracles do happen. LOL
You forgot the Liberal Judge who went to the girlfriend's apartment and took the four exposed relatives to the unknown location, aka "gated community", and then went home and held a press conference the next day in the same clothes.
Yes. Him. He should definitely be on the list.
No Bush lives in Texas and he did it!
“The timeline for her infection is all wrong.”
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Negative. You have the wrong patient. The nurse treated Manuel García Viejo, the second Spanish missionary infected. He died on 26 September. That means her exposure/infection is well within the norm for Ebola virus.
Just might want to pass this along to your friends and family when they listen to the CDC and the rest of the incompetents at the state and local level. Ever wonder why so many doctors and nurses are dying in Africa?
cause YOU KNOW IT’S REALLY NOT THAT CONTAGIOUS!!!! At least that’s what they’re telling us. They’re saying it “can’t be transmitted via aerosolized contamination”
This was sent out to emergency room directors and emergency room doctors.
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