Surgeon with Ebola died, Nebraska hospital says

ap ^ | Nov 17, 2014

[george76]

Nebraska Medical Center said in a news release Monday that Dr. Martin Salia died as a result of the disease.

Salia contracted Ebola while working as a surgeon in Sierra Leone. He arrived Saturday to be treated at the Omaha hospital

[Smokin' Joe]

Why he was brought to Nebraska is another question.

Nebraska has roughly half of the BSL-4 hospital beds in the nation (11).

[bigdaddy45]

Yes, and the usual expressions of sympathy from the armchair warriors who would rather sit on their asses and criticize those actually in the arena is very heartening. And yes, thats sarcasm.

[RummyChick]

He didn’t work with Ebola patients. I am so sick of people claiming you can’t catch it from someone with no symptoms.

This guy treated a pregnant woman. Caught the disease. Just exactly when was SHE symptomatic.

Too much is unknown about this disease.

RIP to another Victim of Ebola.

[FamiliarFace]

The unnamed patient at Emory makes it 10 others who were treated besides this doctor. I keep forgetting about him, because they allow him to remain anonymous.

[bigdaddy45]

So? Whats your point?

[winoneforthegipper]

yeah I am almost positive now that the protocol is two days after a Negative result while suspicion and symptoms are present.

Either way raises a very dark specter.

[peeps36]

I have a gene mutation that is found in a lot of people who come from the Mediterranean area. The specialist at Yale told me the mutation was caused by the Black Plague. I’m pretty sure the mutation happened to people who survived the disease.

[Shimmer1]

“hospital where he was working when he became ill does not treat Ebola patients, but Salia had also worked at three other healthcare facilities.”

We don’t know that he didn’t work with ebola patients.

[I want the USA back]

0 will bring more here for free treatment, and so their families can sue the hospital when they die.

[null and void]

Sad but not unexpected.

They did tell us he was very, very sick when they brought him here for treatment.

Add the stresses of travel.

Add the meme that white patients survive and black ones don't. (No idea who that meme serves, but...)

Still sad news.

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[null and void]

His efforts to help the poor people of Sierra Leone were admirable, and he has paid for his virtue and courage with his life.

Yes, and he knew that was a possibility going in.

Brave man.

[zerosix]

None other than it isn’t an “American” that has died of Ebola but rather another person who has died of Ebola from a country where Ebola rages, while being treated in the U.S.

[the OlLine Rebel]

"... first showed Ebola symptoms on Nov. 6 but tested negative for the virus. He eventually tested positive on Monday." THIS IS WHY INITIAL TESTS ON SUSPECTED PEOPLE ARE MEANINGLESS! I had already read false negatives happen especially in the early stages. We have to stop getting all excited and happy when people (like that child in NY) are tested negative even though it's only been a few days at most the person could be suspected.

[gogeo]

Yes, who’s being billed for his care?

[the OlLine Rebel]

Read the article.

He was a native there, first off, and second he was NOT treating Ebola patients.

Of course what he did is admirable, but he is not an Ebola hero. He just became a victim.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“have the government and insurance companies stop reimbursing for stuff that doesn’t work”

I’d agree with that - such as acupuncture, chiropracty and a bunch of other anti-”Western” crap.

[azishot]

Just caught a bit of our morning talk show when he said Salia had been tested at the beginning and was negative. Next test, negative, third test 5 days later was positive. Also said the doctor was treating himself for malaria. Guess he though that would help.

[null and void]

It would have helped a lot if it was malaria. Same symptoms early on, and a negative Ebola test, it was the way to bet.

The saying is “When you hear hoof-beats think horses, not zebra.”

I guess it doesn’t work quite as well in Africa...

[FamiliarFace]

Ping to post 77. Thanks, azishot!

[metmom]

Maybe.

They can learn something about the virus every time they treat someone here in the US.

More than they could in some medical clinic in Africa.