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.
Thanks. I was confused with CNN’s reporting. The second was a priest.
I would hope that, before she dies, someone asks her what the bleep she was actually doing?
Some individuals with African ancestry have at least partial immunity to malaria, just as some individuals with European ancestry have at least partial immunity to bubonic plague, so I suppose that's possible.
There will be no more confirmed cases in the US until after the elections.
I noted awhile back that it also sounds like a disease that out local mule and black tail deer get called hemoraghic adenovirus. As it progresses they get dehydrated then start bleeding from orifices, eyes, etc. Once they get down they stay down. The initial cause seems to come from poor diet, not eating their native browse but instead feeding on alfalfa, etc. which they can’t digest. But once susceptible, they seem to give it to each other. If the geniuses knew how the deer transmit the stuff it might give a clue as to how humans transmit ebola?
Probably! After all, Obama did such a great job of containment dontcha know.
Note that when the CDC brings these folks over here to "spread the wealth" they are wearing spacesuits - double bagged. Personally, I don't believe a damn word they say.
Of course a good respirator should be used, if available, when in close contact with a symptomatic patient. No assumptions about “can’t infect because...” are valid when in extremely close proximity (say 2 meters).
But Ebola doesn’t spread in the way a classic aerosolized virus does, across several aisles of a supermarket, for example, or through the entire cabin air of an airliner. If that were the case then million of Africans would already be dead of Ebola.
Maybe the doctors should treat the ebola with this:
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Treatment ideally also consists of crystalloid IV fluids and/or colloids (e.g., Hetastarch), antinausea injections (antiemetics) such as maropitant, metoclopramide, dolasetron, ondansetron and prochlorperazine, and broad-spectrum antibiotic injections such as cefazolin/enrofloxacin, ampicillin/enrofloxacin, metronidazole, timentin, or enrofloxacin.[5] IV fluids are administered and antinausea and antibiotic injections are given subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or intravenously. The fluids are typically a mix of a sterile, balanced electrolyte solution, with an appropriate amount of B-complex vitamins, dextrose and potassium chloride. Analgesic medications can be used to counteract the intestinal discomfort caused by frequent bouts of diarrhea; however, the use of opioid analgesics can result in secondary ileus and decreased motility.
In addition to fluids given to achieve adequate rehydration, each time the puppy vomits or has diarrhea in a significant quantity, an equal amount of fluid is administered intravenously. The fluid requirements of a patient are determined by the animal’s body weight, weight changes over time, degree of dehydration at presentation and surface area.
A blood plasma transfusion from a donor dog that has already survived CPV is sometimes used to provide passive immunity to the sick dog. Some veterinarians keep these dogs on site, or have frozen serum available. There have been no controlled studies regarding this treatment.[5] Additionally, fresh frozen plasma and human albumin transfusions can help replace the extreme protein losses seen in severe cases and help assure adequate tissue healing. However, this is controversial with the availability of safer colloids such as Hetastarch, as it will also increase the colloid osmotic pressure without the ill effect of predisposing that canine patient to future transfusion reaction.
Once the dog can keep fluids down, the IV fluids are gradually discontinued, and very bland food slowly introduced. Oral antibiotics are administered for a number of days depending on the white blood cell count and the patient’s ability to fight off secondary infection. A puppy with minimal symptoms can recover in 2 or 3 days if the IV fluids are begun as soon as symptoms are noticed and the CPV test confirms the diagnosis. If more severe, depending on treatment, puppies can remain ill from 5 days up to 2 weeks. However, even with hospitalization, there is no guarantee that the dog will be cured and survive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_parvovirus
I think we may be on to something here! LOL
You are welcome. If she was treating the guy or some how involved, then she should have had adequate training.
When someone like Brantly or some of the other very knowledgeable Doctors are getting infected, it does really make one wonder if there is something a bit different about this, or if the common knowledge is insufficient.
Initial articles did indicate that it was only 97% of the usual strain, so had mutated a bit.
read the entire article
I have family back in Omaha. My Father had major surgery in that hospital. I know people who work there
. This is way to close to home
“Some individuals with African ancestry have at least partial immunity to malaria, just as some individuals with European ancestry have at least partial immunity to bubonic plague, so I suppose that’s possible.”
Apparently, if we survive a specific flu infections, we develope an immunity to that virus.
So if a person survived a mild case of Ebola, they would probably have immunity to that strain. Apparently, this virus mutates at the drop of a hat.
I'm guessing about five people sick by Oct 20th.
I heard most however begin to show symptoms 10 days after infection. A few take up to 21 days. I guess that is the outer limit known for the moment.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
This is the original thread, there are two.
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I am thinking that she was using those standard isolation outfits that they use for less deadly stuff. They are not like the “spacesuits” that we have seen, and appear to have far less potential for protections.
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