Posted on 10/13/2014 4:02:39 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The University of Kansas Hospital reports an individual called and then came into the hospital early this morning with a high fever and other serious symptoms. Because the patient had recently worked on a medical boat off the west coast of Africa, the patient was immediately isolated on a special infectious disease unit and is undergoing tests. Hospital staff met the patient wearing personal protection equipment and followed the hospital’s plan for this kind of illness.
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That reminds me of the time I rented an apartment, in college, for Spring semester. I contacted all of the utilities, but one...the gas company. I took ice cold showers for a couple of days, until the gas company could get out to turn on the gas. Brrrr. Good lesson learned.
Thank you very much.
Forces your body to raise its temperature, like a fever, which kills off virii.
I’m from the KC area. The local radio talk shows honed in on the “...separate ventilation system...”. We’ve been told that Ebola is not airborne, but they went out of the way to put this person on an isolated portion of the HVAC system and they offered this information freely. Bottom line is they either aren’t totally sure that it can’t be transmitted via air exchange or they already know that it is airborne.
Thank you.
Yep, cures cancer, toothaches, dogs that can’t pee (from the comments). B.S.
lamp post
Then don’t bother....with the Vit C....or commenting.
There are some really unsophisticated and gullible readers on here. I feel that critical comments are necessary to prevent a false sense of security and, more importantly, failing to seek preventions or treatments that actually WORK.
I didn’t know that. Sounds like they shouldn’t be accepting these cases in an ordinary hospital then. Other than the risks and difficulties of transporting the patients.
A law firm that helps bring people to the US from Ebola affected countries.
http://www.neufvillelaw.com/uscis-outbreak-related-immigration-relief-measures-to-nationals-of-liberia-sierra-leone-and-guinea-currently-in-the-united-states-and-other-considerations/
They instituted mandatory reporting of high blood sugar to the city, way before the electronic records thingy. They tried to end Happy Hour. They tried to ban salt shakers from restaurants. They succeeded in getting the calorie counts on the menus at the fast-food places. Lots of packages have the word “Good for Sharing” on the wrapper, so you don’t eat the whole candy bar. They did away with the trans-fats so that everything tastes like Vaseline. I think there must be more that I can’t think of.
Yup......I am aware of it...
This sounds like the beginning of dark fairy tale in which the world is grey and unappealing. That “good for sharing” gives it an ominous communistic slant and the end of happy hour part, out of context, makes me shudder.
Thank-you firebrand for this information. I tried Googling more about this dr. and the Bloomberg’s health commission because of my curiosity, but I did not get as deep as your summary.
With winter and flu season coming hospitals are going to be overrun with people panicking thinking they might have ebola. Hell if I wake up one day with a fever I’m going to be nervous as hell also.
Theres people that swear by the cold water method. I’m guessing it has a lot to do with the shock it puts on your system.
Sure, which is why it's classified as a Biosafety level IV pathogen. This guy is so arrogant that he thinks he is qualified to speak with authority on just about any (if not every) topic.
Too many have been trying to characterize Ebola as something like HIV, or Hep C, etc. It's not. No one has to gown, glove, and mask just to be in a room with a HIV or Hep C patient, and people with hazmat suits don't have to clean the room when they leave. Ebola is significantly more easily transmitted, and we don't even know all the ways it can be transmitted yet. It's not as transmissible as the flu, but it isn't ‘difficult to get’. It has been shown possible to infect rhesus monkeys by inhalation of small aerosolized droplets, which is a scary thought.
Exactly.
There are tons of cases not being reported. There has to be.
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