Posted on 08/04/2014 2:24:08 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola now has contracted the disease, authorities said Monday, presenting a dire challenge to Africa's most populous nation as the regional toll for the outbreak grew to 887 dead.
As Nigerian health authorities rushed to quarantine others who had been exposed to the doctor, a special plane landed in Liberia to evacuate the second American missionary who fell ill with Ebola. Nancy Writebol, 59, is expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday, where she will be treated at a special isolation ward.
The second confirmed case in Nigeria is a doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who died July 25 days after arriving in Nigeria from Liberia, said Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu.
Three others who also treated Sawyer now show symptoms of Ebola and their test results are pending, he said. Authorities are trying to trace and quarantine others in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa's largest city of 21 million people.
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Really? Do we have a guarantee on that? I just don't but that all those health care workers were so careless as to allow bodily fluids of Ebola patients to come into contact with them.
The numbers will soon start to climb, in just a week or two
we will see for sure, in three weeks we will know.
Big mistake right there, especially since they are now floating around in a city of 21 million. What could go wrong?
Many of his fellow passengers continued on their international flights that departed from Murtala Muhammed airport.
There are direct flights from there to Atlana, Houston, Saint Louis and other US cities.
Yay.
What the left has been saying about the US inventing AIDS and giving it to the third world...may be true about zer0 and Ebola and Western Christian countries, this could be the beginning.
i read a CDC posting that said physical contact with body/bodily fluids ... OR within 3 feet.
which implies the virus is briefly viable while in the water molecules expelled from the lungs of an infected person
a standard surgical mask would prevent contamination from that source
The surgical mask won’t protect your eyes. Any mucous membrane will do.
Airplanes are notorious for passing viruses on to passengers via their enclosed air systems.
that’s right
we lose vapor through our skin and our lungs
That’s why you seem care workers wearing goggles.
Or those biohazard suits, which is also appropriate.
I guess if there is a bright side, at least it’s not an outbreak of H1N1 we’re dealing with. I’m thinking of the “Spanish Lady” who carried off somewhere between 50 to 100 million people.
Or the Black Death of the Middle Ages - that was another bad pandemic. Ebola burns itself out eventually, whereas H1N1 is a slower killer, and of course, Yersinia Pestis needs fleas to transmit the disease.
And cruise ships - more like floating norovirus labs.
I’m just a layman, but it seems to me what we’re seeing here is some recent mutation of Ebola that is somewhat less lethal, but far more contagious.
I will only note that there has been a good deal of interest and activity in Ebola and its cousins by US researchers and drug companies in the last few years:
How deadly Ebola has spread across the globe: Health officials try to trace 30,000 linked to death of American victim - as Nigerian film star sparks outrage by fleeing Africa in a mask on first-class flight
•Hong Kong woman quarantined when she fell ill after returning from Kenya
•Expert claims panic over death of U.S. man in Nigeria is ‘justified’
•He warned the spread of Ebola could become a global pandemic
•Health campaigners petition U.S. drug authorities to fast-track potential cure
•Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond declares disease is ‘very serious threat’
•He will chair an emergency meeting on how to boost defences
•British airlines are also on ‘red alert’ for cases of the deadly virus
•Man with ‘feverish’ symptoms tested for deadly Ebola at Birmingham hospital
•He had travelled into Midlands from Benin, Nigeria via France when he fell ill
•Charing Cross Hospital staff also feared man had Ebola symptoms this week
•No cases have been confirmed in UK but 672 people have died in West Africa
•Warning issued to GPs, A&E departments and all NHS trusts across the UK
•Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and damage to the nervous system
Surgical masks do not seem to be protecting medical personnel. So it must be more virulent than they are letting on.
backstory: it was reported that Sawyer went on a bit of a rampage after given his diagnosis. A struggle to contain him in isolation could have caused breaks in the protection worn by his attending staff. So, more likely direct contamination via blood and other body fluids than airborne. I hope that those who attended Sawyer will recover.
from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3187612/posts
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“FrontPageAfrica has now learned that upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. “He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes....”
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