Source was MSNBC (not sure if we should link that)
Posted on 07/30/2014 9:08:49 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A corridor of Carolinas Medical Center – Main’s Emergency Room is roped off on the first floor near the entrance.
A security guard is posted outside to prevent anyone from crossing the line.
CMC officials said a patient is being tested, but a spokesman would not specify what they are testing the patient for.
Wednesday morning, the issue at CMC was not impacting Medic services, according to officials.
The hospital is taking “all normal precautions,” according to officials.
The Centers for Disease Control said it has not been contacted.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsoctv.com ...
bats, monkeys, bugs, apes, all kinds of things.
Source was MSNBC (not sure if we should link that)
Good point, I had been thinking about how they might have become infected as well. I was thinking along the usual lines: inadvertant contact with sharps, contact with virus outside the isolation area, etc., but direct infection by mosquitos is a possibility, assuming that their treatment facility is near the epicenter of the outbreak.
That was the figure I have been reading. I admit that I am simply reading many of the same main stream articles that everyone else is getting.
The only mortality rate I am concerned with is 100%. 100% survival rate of my family and me.
A more concise account of her quote was "Severe acute respiratory syndrome was first identified in Asia. On Thursday, the director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened a press conference by noting that ``it's not a disease that is related in any way to being Asian.'' Dr. Julie Gerberding said that she was responding to international reports that Asians have been stigmatized because of fears about SARS. ``We really need to take the high road here,'' she said.
It was right then that I understood we no longer had the ability to contain dangerous diseases.
Patrick Sawyer was from Minnesota. The fact that he flew into Lagos is concerning, no doubt.
Mike Noyes, the head of humanitarian response at Action Aid, said:
In Sierra Leone we have 45 days' funding to tackle this outbreak in some of the most highly infected areas.
We are about halfway through that and in 20 days this situtation will not be resolved. This is the worst Ebola outbreak the world has ever seen and the most worrying thing about it is not just the numbers of people dying, but how long it is going on for.
Most outbreaks last six weeks to two months, they flare up and then die down again. This one began in February and is speeding up rather than slowing down.
If anyone could answer the question 'Why?', we might be able to stop it. Instead, the reach of the spider web of infection is growing.
The way this will be stopped is preventative measures in the countries with Ebola. That means telling people what the disease is, what the symptoms are, what to do if someone may have it.
For later....
Noon Wednesday statement:
A CMC spokesperson released the following statement around noon Wednesday:
“Late last evening, a patient arrived at Carolinas Medical Center Emergency Department after visiting a country known for high risk of infectious diseases. We took all appropriate infection control measures to protect patients, staff, and visitors. After consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and NC Department of Health and Human Services, it appears the risk for communicable disease is low. No further testing is needed and the patient will be sent home. The Emergency Department at Carolinas Medical Center remains open and operating normally.”
“How about the start of marshall law.”
How about the start of English class?
True.
My frosh chem prof always said ‘If you shouldn’t eat it or drink it you probably shouldn’t breathe it either. Unless you plan on never swallowing again...’
Well, not so much here, but over there...could be like chicken wings for us.
I’ve thought about it a bit more.
IF mosquitos are a vector, perhaps the viral load transmitted via mosquito is small enough to prompt disease in the bitten person but not to the same level of mortality as direct exposure to copious quantities of blood, vomit, etc.
The story from the source purported to be Monrovia is dated. (Good way to gauge this is the Official Body Count for the present epidemic, closing in on 700 in Sierra Leone (nw) and adjacent upper elevations of Guinea and Liberia, roughly where these three west African nations join. In the latter nation, the most affected counties presently are Lofa, Montserrado (Monrovia), Bong, and Bomi.
Although this hypothesis could be possible for some diseases that do not infect the mosquito effectively (natural immunity, poor penetration to saliva, etc.), or which require a very high density of copies to infect the human target, this would not be expected to be the case for Ebola. If the mosquito is infected, then the bite, depending on many factors, contains tens of thousands to millions of viral genome copies in the saliva exchanged during a single “bite”— this number is typical for diseases that are considered to be “mosquito borne”; likewise for even the smallest drop of bodily fluid or blood. For Ebola in particular, it only takes a few (one to ten) copies of the virus genome to start the infection process in the human target, so a single mosquito bite is more than enough.
Why do you think everyone associated with the medical care of these folks are in space suits?
And eve some of them are getting infected despite their knowledge and precautions.
“TB is very treatable....”
That is no longer the case. There are now strains of TB that are drug resistant. There also are strains that are highly contagious.
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