Posted on 10/14/2014 10:04:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola while treating a Liberian patient who died of the disease, issued an upbeat statement today saying that she is "doing well"
Pham has received a potentially life-saving transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly, the missionary doctor who beat the virus two months ago, ABC News has learned.
Brantly flew to Dallas on Sunday, one day after Pham tested positive for the virus, sources said. He donated his blood, packed with antibodies that should fight the disease.
Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the nonprofit medical mission group Samaritan's Purse, confirmed that the plasma donation came from Brantly. The missionary had received an experimental treatment and fought off the virus, and has donated blood for transfusions for three others, including Pham.
Pham, 26, expressed her gratitude today in a statement issued by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas where she worked and is now a patient.
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From Wiki
On September 15, 2014, the family of Ebola virus disease patient Marhalene Williams were unable to summon an ambulance to transfer Williams to the hospital. Their tenant, Duncan, helped to transfer Williams by taxi to an Ebola Treatment Ward in Monrovia, Liberia. Duncan rode in the taxi to the treatment ward with Williams, her father, and her brother. The family was turned away due to lack of space and Duncan helped carry Williams from the taxi back into her home, where she died shortly afterwards.[7]
On September 19, Duncan left Monrovia for Brussels where he boarded United Airlines Flight 951 to Washington Dulles Airport. Before departing Liberia, he lied about his history of contact with the disease on an airport questionnaire, according to an airport official.[8] From Washington, he boarded United Airlines Flight 822 to Dallas/Fort Worth. He arrived in Dallas at 7:01 p.m. CDT [9] on September 20, 2014,[10][11] and stayed with his partner and her five children, who live in the Fair Oaks neighborhood of Dallas.[12][13]
Duncan began experiencing symptoms on September 24, 2014, and went to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital emergency room late in the evening of September 25, 2014. During this visit, his reported symptoms were
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So Sept 15 he knowingly was exposed to Ebola..
On Sept 19 he lied and got on board a plane for the US..
So when did he buy the ticket ???
Was he already sick on Sept 19 when he lied and brought the ticket ??
Was he already sick or had a previous exposure on Sept 15 so it didn’t matter to be near the woman ???
Its too pat that he supposedly tried for years to get a visa to come to the US and then suddenly leaves Liberia when he had Ebola..
Inoculation against smallpox involved using a knife, lancet, or scalpel to make a cut in the arm or leg of the patient and then transferring biological matter taken directly from the oozing pustule of an infected person. This process, called arm-to-arm inoculation, resulted in the inoculated person developing a form of the illness, but the course tended to be shorter in duration and milder in symptoms. Some people died as a result of inoculation, but those who recovered were immune to smallpox for life.As the incidence of smallpox increased in North America during the 1700s, inoculation (or variolation, as the procedure had come to be known) against the virus became more widely used. Two of the most well-known proponents of variolation were Rev. Cotton Mather and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston. Mather and Boylston performed and promoted the procedure among the citizens of New England, beginning in 1721. Their activities were well-received by some but many people were suspicious of the practice and variolation was as dangerous as contracting smallpox naturally. Using statistical analysis to compare the death rate among the approximately 6,000 citizens of Boston who contracted smallpox during the 1721 epidemic, Mather and Boylston demonstrated that among those who were variolated the death rate was 2%. Among those who contracted the naturally-occurring form of smallpox, the death rate was 14%.
Well, if it works they will have more survivors to give blood. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter.
I’m a layman just like you, so this is logic, not science.
They are trying this, to see if it will replicate in the new patient. They hope it will. So do I.
If it does, it stands to reason that person would then also be a carrier, and the procedure could then be done using their blood on others.
This makes logical sense. It may not work on the new patients.
We’ll have to wait and see. I sure hope it does work.
Each new cured patient using this method, would then be a resource to help cure others. That would be a great thing if the logic holds up.
Remember, the doctors are no better off then we are here. This makes logical sense to them too. They don’t know if it will work either.
It’s their best guess, just like it is our best guess.
I guess they’re trying everything. Thanks
It seems like it. I am glad they are.
I know what you mean about it not doing much to call. I could tell that CongressThing Tammy Baldwin’s (D-Hell) phone rep was very unconcerned about anything. She got an earful of reality anyway, from me.
Cheers
Yea, really. Jesse Jackson must be fuming over this news.
He lied to be allowed to fly here so he came here illegally, so yes that is sneaking in.
A nice idea that dates back decades. But ...
Hasn’t the CDC advised male Ebola survivors to use a rubber for several months after being “cured”? Seems that Ebola can survive in semen for months after being killed ( don’t any better term) in the survivor.
What makes blood different?
It’s probably some kind of “shedding” issue. Maybe it’s one of the areas that tends to get pent up so takes longer for the shedding.
Whereas, everyone goes potty every day and quite frequently so sheds right from the primary disease routes quickly (and they get from and give directly to the bloodstream), the men aren’t necessarily eliminating that semen every day.
I don’t know, I’m just guessing.
Clearly not if Duncan wasn’t a match. Maybe it’s a subtype of O- which has to match also? (In the OJ Simpson trial they talked about subtypes of blood which were different than ABO +/-.
You healthcare professionals. Even when you aren’t in a level 4 containment situation, NEVER wear the shoes you wore in the hospital in your car or your home. Buy a cheap pair of hospital shoes that you store in a plastic bag in your car. Change shoes before you go in to the hospital and change back to street shoes before you get back in your car. Hospital floors are littered with droplets from every patient’s sneezes and coughs. Hospital janitors only mop and sanitize a couple of times a day. All other times, the floor should be considered contaminated. What will that extra pair of shows cost? $50. Is you life or the lives of your family worth less than $50? Do you want your children to get TB or staph or whatever is on the hospital floor?
You healthcare professionals. Even when you aren’t in a level 4 containment situation, NEVER wear the shoes you wore in the hospital in your car or your home. Buy a cheap pair of hospital shoes that you store in a plastic bag in your car. Change shoes before you go in to the hospital and change back to street shoes before you get back in your car. Hospital floors are littered with droplets from every patient’s sneezes and coughs. Hospital janitors only mop and sanitize a couple of times a day. All other times, the floor should be considered contaminated. What will that extra pair of shoes cost? $50. Is you life or the lives of your family worth less than $50? Do you want your children to get TB or staph or whatever is on the hospital floor?
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