With government bureaucrats in charge all over the world, we are little better off than in the days of the Black Plague.
What is stranger is that she, like all the other people who had been in contact with the missionary, was supposedly being monitored by the hospital. They were all told to take their temperature twice a day and report any change immediately to the hospital.
She did so, and was then referred to her local out patient “walk-in clinic” instead of being told to come immediately to the first hospital (Carlos III). The second hospital examined her and, because her fever was very slight and didn’t reach the level at which they had to take action, sent her home with ibuprofen! She tried again later, and again she was sent home because her fever wasn’t “high enough.”
When she finally showed up at the emergency room, she supposedly already had hemorrhages, etc. and a very high fever. At that point, she was still allowed to sit there for 4 hours, and then finally sent back to the bigger hospital when someone realized that it actually WAS ebola!
She says she told them every time that she had been exposed (actually, she’s not saying anything, and this information comes mostly from her husband). Some of the places that saw her dispute this, but I think that they were so busy clinging to their guidelines that they just ignored it.
Apparently the guidelines were developed to keep everybody in the world who had a slight fever from getting paranoid about ebola and overwhelming the hospitals, but they never took into consideration the fact that a high fever generally begins with a low fever, and that people who are told to take an anti-inflammatory are going to keep their fevers artificially low until it’s too late.
That said, the real mystery is why the doctors supposedly monitoring the group missed one of the basic symptoms.
I think, personally, that it’s from the false assurances that the authorities (everywhere, including here) have given: “Oh, it’s hard to catch, Europeans aren’t likely to get it, don’t panic when you have a little fever, etc.” I agree that people shouldn’t panic, but a little prudence were certainly be welcome!
Wow. Total incompetence.
“ahh, but you need to report your fever by filling out a Q189-stroke-7 Zed form in triplicate...”
If ebola can't be spread by airborne means, and the health care workers treating victims are ostensibly trained, why is it that they continue to become infected?
Could the 0bama regime be lying?
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...
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread