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To: MarMema

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2014/07/ebola-in-liberia-health-ministry-failing-to-pick-up-abandoned-bodies.html


101 posted on 07/29/2014 8:48:42 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes
You know I work in healthcare and I have to tell you, this is a better disaster scenario than any movie out there.

Did you see the gowns, masks and gloves? Safety glasses? It is simply unfathomable to me that so many many healthcare workers are getting this strain - and dying of it as well.

This ebola has to be 100% pathogenic on any first contact and deadly as can be from the tiniest particle imaginable.

Then figure in the guy on the plane vomiting and having diarrhea - most people touch the counter in the plane bathroom while there - and all those next to him, or flight attendants. All released to go on to more international flights to hand out food and drinks and hand back credit cards to more international passengers, perhaps infectious but not openly sick yet.

Add in the famous toothpick studies from restaurants where they are loaded with fecal matter - almost no one washes their hands well enough.

Then you have the patients showing up in ERs with vomiting and diarrhea, ho hum, see them all the time, last thing anyone is going to consider is ebola - it is way too zebra. So all of those staff, like me, treating the patient and drawing blood and handling the stool.

I mean this could not be worse - you couldn't come up with a disaster movie any better than this.

103 posted on 07/29/2014 9:21:02 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: Black Agnes
Amber Brantly and the children departed for a wedding in the U.S. just days before Brantly fell ill and quarantined himself. They are currently staying with family in Abilene and, while not subject to quarantine, are monitoring their temperatures for an early sign of viral infection, a City of Abilene spokeswoman said.

Yet another possible "leak" from Africa...one of these many many potential leaks is going to be deadly.

104 posted on 07/29/2014 9:50:19 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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