Posted on 09/21/2014 6:07:31 AM PDT by 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.
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Someone else said they will use IR thermometers, but I don’t know how close to the target they have to be to get an accurate reading....
The ones I’ve used, you had to be within a few inches.
(Granted, those were food-service thermometers. I have no idea if medical IR thermometers are different.)
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Ping.
The CDC, NIH & Bill Gates Own the Patents On Existing Ebola & Related Vaccines: Mandatory Vaccinations Are Near
http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-cdc-nih-bill-gates-own-patents-on.html
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pretty close to home.
Nowhere. I was just stating that an overly naive focus on “the goodness of humanity” may result in many of humanity suffering the consequences.
I have to wonder how well the thermometer is getting sterilized between checks. A quick half wipe with an alcohol prep?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Please add me to your Bring Out Your Dead Ping List. Sounds like fun (gallows humor).
I am guessing that they would be using something like this, but who knows?
This paper is giving a range of 1.4 to 1.9 for the entire epidemic, which corroborates the estimates we made of R0 more than a month ago.
It also corroborates that the R0 is increasing.
The doubling period used to be 30 days. That has dropped to 22 days. All of this from official WHO numbers, without applying their ‘fudge factor’ of 2X to 4X their stated numbers.
I agree with the testimony of the two witnesses in the second panel at the Congressional hearing on Ebola last week - they need to mobilize something massive and coherent immediately, not in months.
While they are not stating that the disease is airborne, the disease is airborne. That happened last Thursday.
They are attributing the spread of it to the lack of proper containment, yet there have been over 300 medical personnel infected at this point.
Many of those had the resources to protect themselves, most notably, Nancy Writebol. Her job was to clean equipment and gear. No patient contact.
They burned her personal effects because they no longer believe they could be cleaned.
Oh man that “We need a bigger cart” busted my gut.
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Quote from article: “...The international aid groups, Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children, have both asked governments to forgo sending money, but instead help volunteers get to the stricken regions.”
As for foreigners coming here to take care of our citizens stricken with Ebola - they can stay away! We will not need their help. They will only try to change our local governments.
I have a unit like that made by Roswell and have found it great for taking temperatures on “things” but for whatever reason, it is way off for living things. Even pointing it into my mouth, it is significantly off.
There may be some medical calibrated unit out there but we use the “rub their forehead” type unit on the ambulance.
Democrats and illegal aliens will be first in queue for the vaccine. Conservatives, gun owners, pro - life “radicals” and the elderly will be SOL.
Obamacare (ACORN) government workers will choose who is worthy of the vaccine.
Let’s hope the Koch brothers are funding a vaccine as well.
If I was to go over there to help, I simply would not return home until 21 days after the epidemic burned out. It would be the only way to be sure.
Or it’s possible Kenema has a better medical facility than most places over there.
If I were him, I’d have a whole bag of thermometers, and each time one registered a fever, I would dispose of it for incineration.
The one’s I’ve had used on me had actual contact with my skin, if I remember correctly. Therefore, my idea of incinerating each thermometer that registers a fever in Ebola country.
But who gave them 'carte blanche" to return here and act as if nothing happened?
I don't want anyone exposed to that walking around without passing through 90 days quarantine.
Thanks for the ping!
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