Due to the Ebola Virus, access to CDC will be closed temporarily.
Posted on 07/31/2014 2:25:13 PM PDT by Wage Slave
Emory University Hospital is expected to receive a patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus within the next several days, the university announced Thursday.
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The article was practically devoid of information. I just saw it on Twitter and posted it. Hopefully there will be more info in a few minutes.
If it’s a US citizen who’s already here (or on the way here), I suppose Emory is as good a place as any to isolate the patient and begin treatment.
OTOH, is the patient is a foreign national, then I say that it’s the responsibility of the patient’s home country to take care of that person.
IOW, stay out!
Due to the Ebola Virus, access to CDC will be closed temporarily.
Not a doctor but perhaps if she survives, some sort of antibodies may be in her body that could help others.
“Not a doctor but perhaps if she survives, some sort of antibodies may be in her body that could help others.”
My thoughts too.
I suspect that, besides the supportive therapy to help the patients survive, they want to collect blood and body fluid samples and run a boatload of tests to see what they can do about future cases.
Guantanamo is the perfect facility for this, not Emory. If proximity to the CDC is an issue why not treat them at the CDC itself??
I think you’re probably correct. Some people do survive Ebola anyway, and if she’s still alive and well enough to travel, even on a specially equipped plane, she either has some natural resistance or perhaps was given some treatment there (I believe she was treated by American medical personnel) that helped her to survive thus far.
Geeze, this is getting more fascinating by the day.
Next up is when a medical staff member gets it from the patient here in the US.
Both are going to be pin cushions, that is for sure.
Brantly received a transfusion from a 14 year old boy he saved.
I can see why they’d want to monitor him too.
I have no issues with bringing these 2 home. Precautions will be extreme and they are US citizens. It’s letting god knows who get on airplanes and fly here I have an issue with.
Maybe he will be able to see his wife if she puts on a Level 4 spacesuit. Not being snarky.
Source: Flight leaves for Liberia to evacuate Americans infected with Ebola
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
And interesting details about the private airplane, precautions and isolation, and possible evacuation:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health/ebola-isolation-treatment/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
They already have Ebola at the CDC and at many universities around the United States. They collect blood, saliva, stomach contents, bowel contents, urine, and tissue samples from those who have died and catalog them in deep freeze for research purposes. This is however the first living host arriving with it.
Congrats on your almost first post :) And thanks for searching before posting.
Lots of good info. Thanks.
I know you’re not. I hope he does.
Something tells me the real estate market around suburban Atlanta is going to take a dive until further notice.
> I heard the only cure for Ebola is 9mm
a 9mm would make quite a mess.
Just read the comments on an article about the US diplomat that was on his way home and many of the commenter s think Nigeria agreed with you.
ALOT less of a mess than an Ebola-bleed-out....if the reports are accurate.
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