CDC Issues Ebola Checklist: 'Now is the time to prepare'

Washington Examiner ^ | September 15, 2014 | Paul Bedard

[scouter]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected.

While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United States, the assumption in the checklist is that it is only a matter of time before the virus hits home.

[Empireoftheatom48]

My Mom survived the 1918 Flu she turned 100 yesterday!

[dayglored]

> I don’t know the numbers on women, but I’d say close to 50% of men don’t even wash their hands before exiting a restroom. It’s rather disgusting. If I shake hands with anyone, I almost immediately want to wash my hands.

You know what's even MORE important for your health?

Wash your hands BEFORE you relieve yourself. That's right -- BEFORE you go to the urinal or into the stall. Why? Because you're about to touch yourself in a place where bacterial and viruses thrive. How many places have your hands been, before you open your pants? What are you about to deposit on YOUR OWN SKIN?

Think about it.

Washing AFTER you relieve yourself is good too, of course -- but frankly, it's for the benefit of the person you shake hands with, not you so much.

You want to do YOURSELF a favor, wash BEFORE you relieve yourself.

Think about it.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Bon of Babble]

She is allergic to eggs and most animals - apparently there are eggs and something extracted from horses (!!) in the adjuvant.

The allergist thought it was so important for her to be vaccinated with MMR that she was given the vaccine over the course of about 6 hours, pretty much one drop at a time - this was done in the hospital in case she had a life-threatening reaction.

Later, when she turned 18, her blood test showed no evidence of MMR vaccine so the doctor gave it to her right there - fortunately, she didn’t have a reaction.

[Tennessee Nana]

In the early 1980s Mayor Riley (D) of Charleston, SC claim there were no AIDS patients in Charleston..

His cousin Gov Riley of SC also a (D) claim there were no AIDS patients in the whole state..

Meanwhile they were sneaking civilian never served AIDS patients into the VA hospitals..

and putting them on the cancer wards..

and threatening the nurses with firing if they refused to nurse them..

true story..

I was a cancer patient on the cancer ward in a VA hospital at the time ..

frightened nurses would sneak into my room and beg me to pray for them ..AIDS was their Ebola..

the AIDS patients were quarantined but right next door to the cancer patients and the nurses served both groups..

I got quite an education about AIDS from terrified nurses who answered all my questions..

Will the same happen with the Ebola patients ???

why not ???

[steve86]

Happy to hear you recovered. And glad HIV turned out to be not casually communicable.

[Amish with an attitude]

The Georgia Guidestones crowd are rubbing their hands together at the thought of the possibilities.

First principle on the list:

“1.Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”

http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/message.htm

[greeneyes]

Paragraphs are so helpful when trying to read a long post. This was very hard to read, but interesting.

If I were a health care worker in USA, I would want more than the CDC advises here. Likewise, if a family member was a patient in a hospital with an EVD patient, I would also want more - especially I would want them in a negative pressure room.

If the staff follows these standard protocols in the same lackadaisical manner that I have observed during flu epidemics, and for people with VRE, then we are in big trouble is all I have to say.

[Tennessee Nana]

The way I discovered the AIDS group was this..

I had tubes in me but I had one of those great wheelie thingies..have wheelie thingie will travel :)

our whole floor was the cancer ward...

outside my room to the left was the nurses station and the elevator to go down to the snack bar..

to the right at the end of the hall was the day room where the veterans watched the old westerns (Wagon Train etc) all day Saturday..and sports on a bigger TV screen..

I joined them on Saturdays..and some other times..(we did have our own smaller TV in our rooms..)

It must have been the 2nd Saturday I was there..I went right to pass what had been an empty room the day before but now had crime scene type tape across the door but the door was open and a silent patient on the bed but alone..

a sign saying it was a quarantine room was now at the door..

Now I have always been curious and nosy and I immediately went to the nurses station to ask why the patient was quarantined (what type of cancer is ever quarantined its not catchy)

I wasn’t told but the door from then on was closed..

that evening I asked my trusty afternoon nurse what kind of disease the patient had..

I wasn’t told but I suggested AIDS to her..

when my night nurse came to me the night after that and said I was right and that her friend my afternoon nurse had suggested I knew, she admitted she was terrified and asked me to pray for her..

from then on I got in dribs and drabs other nurses asking for prayer..

they answered all my fast learner questions and explained how the disease could be passed onto them through accidents with needles etc and told me that other medical personal around the country had been effected that way..

One poor girl was pregnant and she was not excused from nursing the AIDS patients..

I also was told that the patients were not veterans but they were sent to the VA hospital to hide them..to help the ruse that there were none in SC..(evil Democrats)

Now normally only veterans can go to a VA hospital but here they were “civilians” with AIDS putting veterans in danger...

this was 30 years ago..while Reagan was POTUS..

now we have Ebola ...and a “president” who could care less about veterans..

would he hide Ebola patients in VA hospitals..and claim there are none in the US..

do bears poo in the woods ???

[Tennessee Nana]

some women don’t wash their hands either..

and don’t encourage their little girls too ..

[greeneyes]

It is in hospitals too. Nurses who have coughs and runny noses are harassed into working too. In fact, every place I ever worked acted like colds and flu should just be ignored, and if you can't come to work - bring a note from a hospital or undertaker.

[greeneyes]

For most things, I can go longer than 6 months. For some things I can go for several years.

Right now, I am increasing medical supplies, since we have so much stuff poring over the border and lack of procedures to ensure that Ebola doesn’t break out and spread to USA>

[greeneyes]

Yes, among other things.

[greeneyes]

Ah yes - the overpopulation problem. Every year the big wig elites have a Finance/Economic Meeting in Switzerland. The first one after the market crashed in 2008, I heard a report on the news.

It seems George Soros had an exclusive party that included Bill Gates and Oprah (can't recall who else) and they all agreed that the biggest problem facing the world was over population.

Not reported was what they decided should be the solution.

Isn't it amazing the flip flop and conflicting positions the liberals have?

We were warned in the 60s about the “Population Bomb” and told to limit our children to two per family. (Notice the elites - such as Kennedy's didn't follow that advice).

Then we are told that countries must let immigrants pour into their countries because the birth rate is too low, and the citizens aren't replacing themselves, and Globull warming is the true crisis.

Now, it's shaping up like there's going to be a massive pandemic of something Ebola, Drug resistant TB, EV-D68, etc, and the folks in charge are going to make sure that the good ole USA suffers as much as the rest of the world - in fact it should be more cause after all Obama knows that the USA is EEEEEEvil, so of course we deserve to get EEEEEbola. s/

[greeneyes]

Aside from the quick add water stuff that I get from local grocery, I like the LDS on line store.

They have a starter kit that provides the basics for one person for one month. Last time I ordered it was $30.00, with no shipping if you ordered more than one case.

This is 6 number 10 cans. One can each of red wheat, oats, rice, flour, white wheat, pinto beans. They have been adding stuff to the web site. It's among the best priced items for long term storage. Flour about 10 years, most of the rest around 30 years to remain good.

Add some cooking oil, sugar/honey, baking soda/powder, and other stuff you normally eat, and it'll give you some pretty good eats.

Walmart online also has some pails that look pretty reasonable that would give you a grab and go pail for a month of eats.

[greeneyes]

That double dip spoon is a pet peeve I have too. I do like to taste stuff as I cook, but I use a clean spoon each time, or else use a dipper to pour a little into my spoon.

It makes for lots of extra spoons to wash each time I cook.

[GOPJ]

Was that case in Miami confirmed? (Oh, and thanks for the ping Sarge)

[Roos_Girl]

Ew, I’m kind of freaky about public restrooms also. I was in a Joann and couldn’t wait, woman came into the stall next to me and put her purse on the floor by the toilet. Gross!

[greeneyes]

Yes, and there's plenty of stuff from the regular grocery store that is just open and eat, heat and eat, or add hot water and eat.

My kids like the cup o soup ramen noodles. Canned Tuna or salmon for the fish once a week. We also like a can of pork and beans to just open and eat. Then there the turkey and dressing, beef stew in individual cans or plastic containers that don't need much cooking - just to name a few.

[greeneyes]

IIRC, one of the articles on the Ebola Surveillance thread, said there have been about 20 people. The high profile cases were reported on National news, and the others I never heard about till an article reported that there have been more.