Posted on 10/13/2014 7:29:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DALLAS — The transmission of the Ebola virus to a nurse here forced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday to reconsider its approach to containing the disease, with state and federal officials re-examining whether equipment and procedures were adequate or too loosely followed, and whether more decontamination steps are necessary when health workers leave isolation units.
“We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control, because even a single infection is unacceptable,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C., told reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What is the basis for your concern about the supply of beef and pork?
Can't see in other picture if HAZMAT workers have an oxygen tank either.
Do they just use surgical masks?
This Boston incident was absurd, and could have been avoided by a simple exercise of authority by a well-informed person.
Ebola goes from Human to animal. The minute they admitted that...you can easily see some scenario where one farmer gets it, and it moves across an entire county in a matter of a year or two, from beef herd to beef herd. You’d have to slaughter an entire herd and every cow within five miles to essentially ensure it didn’t go any further. Then you’d wake up a month later to find another farmer or rancher passed it on again.
It will simply become endemic in the wild hog population.
Okay. Though of course all animals are not the same. I’ve not heard of any Ebola strains affecting cattle, but there’s a lot they don’t know about the disease.
Rule Number One: We certainly don’t want to hurt anyone’s or any country’s feelings by singling them out as ‘bad’, just because they have Ebola.
So far, it seems as though the ones who are surviving are the ones who are getting blood transfusions from other survivors. I heard the guy in Nebraska is now sitting up, eating, feeling much better, probably going to make it. He got a blood transfusion from the first doctor they brought back to Atlanta who survived. Now Nina Pham has received a transfusion from the same guy who saved the guy in Nebraska, I’ve heard she is in stable condition, really hoping she is going to make it.
Now, me, not being a doctor realizes how important this is, but I worry about our leaders, they might actually be to dumb to spot what a laymen has already spotted. We need to isolate these anti-bodies from survivors (western hopefully to avoid spreading other dangerous diseases) and come up with a cure for Ebola, it sounds like were close, if these transfusions are working then we merely have to teach the immune system to recognize and attack Ebola.
Also, I have now doubt that NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine) would be a key factor in surviving Ebola, it regulates the inflammatory response and helps prevent Cytokine storms and is a very strong anti-viral.
Ebola has now reach the the 70% fatal threshold worldwide, those are very bad odds.
I really hope there are some people with common sense starting to think about using the anti-bodies from Kent Brantly, the original Atlanta survivor as a cure.
Prayers for critical thinkers in the medical community to act quickly, it seems to me there is something here worth taking a look at ...
Phosphate bombs and chlorine gas.
Can't see in other picture if HAZMAT workers have an oxygen tank either.
Do they just use surgical masks?
In the Boston photo, they are just using surgical masks. You also notice that skin is exposed around the face. In the Dominican Republic photos, it looks like they have a tank on their back, plus the masks look like a pressurized mask that fire departments use.
I bet the new protocol will involve government perverts sticking their hands in granny pants at the airport as they check for Obola.
I can’t believe that not one African has shown immunity to Ebola thus providing a base for a vaccine.
Mandatory vax in the US, at a conservative $100 per dose will net the provider somewhere north of $30B. Long GSK if that happens.
It could also be that Ebola is spread by sexual contact while asymptomatic before the fever sets in by both sexes. Also, besides being spread in semen afterwords, it may also be spread in female vaginal fluids weeks after symptoms subside. There is just not enough research right now.
You probably don't want HIV Aids patients to donate blood either you bigot.
You thought of that too, eh?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.