Posted on 09/24/2014 11:33:34 AM PDT by Kartographer
Ebola symptoms can include copious amounts of vomiting and diarrhoea, and nurses and doctors at Emory donned full hazmat suits to protect themselves. Bags of waste quickly began to pile up.
"At its peak, we were up to 40 bags a day of medical waste, which took a huge tax on our waste management system," Emory's Dr. Aneesh Mehta told colleagues at a medical meeting earlier this month.
Emory sent staff to Home Depot to buy as many 32-gallon rubber waste containers with lids that they could get their hands on. Emory kept the waste in a special containment area for six days until its Atlanta neighbor, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helped broker an agreement with Stericycle.
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Ping!
Send it special delivery to the White House.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Mooch’s lobster dinner needs seasoning.
It should go to the White House?
If even the ‘experts’ were that unprepared, what would happen if the local county hospital had 6 or 8 such patients?
interesting lack of any news or reporting from the “frontline” of our troops obama sent to the middle on the Liberian hot zone
No CNN or PMSNBC volunteers to report from the hotzone in biohazard gear? ho hum
I’d guess the waste included used hazmat suits, soiled bedding, mattresses, etc. But that is still a lot of waste!
If anyone has money to invest (heaven knows I don’t) they might look at Stericyle (SRCL).
I’m not saying to buy , sell or short it. Or even put dime one down on it in any way. That’s up to you.
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Very poorly written article, it doesn’t separate the regular Emory hospital from the special isolation unit.
Whether they are doing that on purpose, to confuse it all together, I don’t know.
The special isolation unit says that it disinfects it’s human waste, and it’s disposables are autoclaved and incinerated “”All disposables are autoclaved [sanitized via pressurized steam] and then incinerated.””.
I believe they all have incinerators, but I believe many hospitals don’t use them, and contract it out to companies that pick it up. If Ebola gets a foothold here, I’d buy as many shares of Waste Management that I could get my dollars on, or any other company that handles such waste. I’d assume Waste Management does, given their size.
A fifty gallon drum of bleach per hospital ought to go a long way to assist in this regard.
Our military can send in 3,000 ‘boots’ if they’re not already infected from being in the African hot zone... and all our problems will be over. You know it only takes three thousand American soldiers... Obama’s not trying to get them infected - really.
Even if they don’t have a hazardous waste division now they are probably thinking of forming one.
Hey! Where are all the embedded media that are accompanying our troops to Africa to fight ebola?!?!
Scary to think that the hospitals didn’t anticipate this, nor the CDC.
About that “history” thing blaming “the white man” for killing off all of the Indians by bringing diseases to this pure, pristine country. What was that all about?
Wait until these poor “soldiers” start dieing. Why did we send military people into ebola can anyone articulate that reasoning? Did they take flame throwers?
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