( Montana ) Missoula doctor, nurse return from treating Ebola patients in Africa

Missoulian ^ | September 19, 2014 | Rob Chaney

[george76]

Dr. George Risi had to pass a dozen armed checkpoints to leave Sierra Leone – four of which ordered him out of the car so a guard could take his temperature.

The Missoula infectious disease specialist is still checking his thermometer twice daily since his return from 20 days of volunteer work in an Ebola virus ward. He and fellow Missoulian intensive care nursing director Kate Hurley cared for up to 95 patients, from babies to grandparents, suffering from the often-fatal disease.

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While untreated Ebola tends to be 70 percent fatal, Risi said about half of the patients in the Kenema clinic where he worked made it through alive. Those who do usually have antibody resistance for up to 10 years.

[nuconvert]

“The Missoula infectious disease specialist is still checking his thermometer twice daily since his return from 20 days of volunteer work “

And I hope he’s keeping himself isolated from others, too

[Pollster1]

It’s nice to hear that, with treatment, survival rates rise from 30% to 50%. Only 50%?

[Carthego delenda est]

“often-fatal”, “70 percent fatal”, “half of the patients... made it”.

Must be common core math. Missoula: Montana’s libtard stronghold.

[SisterK]

like playing with dynamite

[Bigg Red]

Okay, so a guard takes the temperature of everyone going through the checkpoint? If he measures the temp of someone who has Ebola, I am assuming he has come into contact with the virus. Gee, who wants that guard duty?

In addition, after the guard has come into contact with an infected person, does he continue with his duty and expose the subsequent people passing the checkpoint?

[Comment Not Approved]

Hope I don’t brush up against them on my next shopping trip to the big city.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Gadsden1st]

Three day quarantine for this?

http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/?p=70490

“Not a soul came knocking on my door yesterday. However, this morning an individual came to the gate and entered the yard. Armed with a plastic bag of soaps and wearing an Ebola t-shirt, he had little else to offer. I will give him his due, he did embark on lecturing how to protect yourself from the disease and thrust one bar of 72% soap in my direction. I asked him what the soap was for, and he answered for washing hands. Now I don’t know if you know about 72% soap, but I would’t even recommend it for washing clothes! I asked the man what one bar of 72% soap for a household of 5-10 people was going to do! With a sticker on the wall and the house “checked off”, he was on his way to deliver his next bar of soap. He did exactly what he was told to do.”

[grumpygresh]

We are not going to get real info on Ebola from the Leftist media. The sin of omission here is that the moron low IQ reporter did not think educate his readers that Ebola has up to a 22 day incubation period, and that some Ebola strains has been transmitted via airborne mechanisms.

[Black Agnes]

Here’s some more workers who apparently don’t realize their entire homes would be burned. Including contents. Should they turn positive for Ebola.

[vetvetdoug]

I hope these folks in Montana stay away from the trout lodges.

[Jane Long]

Okay, so a guard takes the temperature of everyone going through the checkpoint? If he measures the temp of someone who has Ebola, I am assuming he has come into contact with the virus. Gee, who wants that guard duty?

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The thermometers are IR, so they (hopefully) aren’t coming in direct contact.

Even still, I do agree, who wants that guard duty?

[Wage Slave]

I didn’t see a return date or duration of quarantine for them, but maybe I missed it. I wonder if they returned on a commercial flight.

I’m all for donating money and medical supplies, food, whatever is needed...unload the cargo at the airport gate, then back up into the air for the flight home. But some liberal do gooder is going to wander into the ebola wards and bring it back home.

How many foreigners are going to come here to take care of us when we get it?

[Spok]

These people are real heroes. In a time when respect for valor and courage is being belittled and ridiculed, they deserve recognition by those few who still believe in the nobility of the human spirit.

[hal ogen]

Blind obeisance to “the human spirit” can result in many more dieing. The Dr should have been quarantined for a month in a foreign country. Instead, he may have brought the virus into his community. Would that be good for the "human spirit"?

[george76]

<< didn’t see a return date or duration of quarantine for them, but maybe I missed it. I wonder if they returned on a commercial flight. >>

Should have waited a month or so before returning to the general population ..

[Spok]

Where did I suggest that spreading the virus would be a good thing?

[Ellendra]

And how are they sterilizing the thermometers? Even if they use the little beam-of-light kind, they’d have to get close enough fot the thermometer to get contaminated.

[Ellendra]

I have the utmost admiration for anyone who obeys such a calling. But for the sake of the thousands of people they are putting at risk, I'd really rather they did their quarantines on boats instead of at home.