Posted on 09/29/2014 7:54:52 PM PDT by Nachum
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas is carefully evaluating a patient who may have Ebola Virus Disease. Based on the patient’s symptoms and recent travel history, the patient has been admitted into “strict isolation,” said spokeswoman Candace White in a prepared statement. Preliminary test results are expected Tuesday. The hospital is following Centers for Disease Control and Texas Department of Heath recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors, White said. In August, Dr. Kent Brantly, a Fort Worth doctor who contracted Ebola while working as an aid worker in Africa,
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But, but the TSA was supposed to save us from Ebola getting off planes!!!! The government promised!!!
The hospital has an isolation room but it is not one of the four nationwide for Ebola. Check your mail in a few minutes.
The bigger question is why hasn’t ALL travel been halted going into and coming out of the southern two-thirds of Africa? This disease has the potential to wipe out vast swathes of the global population and people can still stroll into these hot zones? Where is the intelligence or logic in that?
No, it is not. Also, their infection control has been alleged to be suspect in years past. Staph infections ran rampant. This, however, was a decade or so ago. Things may have changed for the better.
Logistical issues? What kind of logistical solution do you propose if this turns out to be a real infection?
Legal issues? If this turns out to be a real infection, I propose the pertinent lawyers be recruited to take care of this poor soul. Unless they have a chit showing 24 hrs of bedpan duty, they can stuff their paperwork.
These clowns are going to keep on screwing around until Ebola is raising havoc in America. A lot of Americans are going to die because of this administration’s stupidity and incompetence.
“Surely you jest. This is the One’s Regime. Stroke of the pen - law of the land.”
If any president would impose via Executive Order, a massive quarantine, it would be Obama and I am sure many would advocate a quarantine of all who may have been to Africa.
I trust that sanitation conditions are better in the United States than they are in backwater Liberian villages.
I will worry about getting hit by meteorite more than catching Ebola.
Sory...but ....I req. cleaning your hands if you handle money....at all...in fact paper money may have to be eliminated soon....maybe it will be banned.
Isolate this brutal disease to the African continent?
That makes way too much sense.
Besides, the airlines, travel agencies, investors etc, might lose some money.
And I am confident the government has a few other motives of it's own.
No reason any of this can't happen here. It happens everyday with countless other viruses. Ebola is much harder to catch than something like a cold (including EV-D68) or the flu, but if you come into contact with fluid from an infected individual you probably will catch it.
The thing that is better here is supportive care, but facilities would be quickly overwhelmed doing that for more than a 5-10 patients per hospital and non-specialist facilities would be expected to spread the disease further.
cleaning your hands? really??
Ebola is a blood virus spread thru skin contact with any infected bodily fluid. any skin contact. if you touched infected fluids, such as shaking a hand during the summer, sitting in a taxi seat or movie theater, then you’d already be infected. no amount of washing will improve your 50-70% chance of mortality
Oh excuse ME sten.....
Leta see....no door handles...no taxis....no gass pump...no toilet seat....
Golly sten...where do YOU live?...got an island for your family?
Because I live in a semi functional society still...and IMO some steps can be taken to reduce chance of infection....
....continuous hand cleaning may save lives.
P.S....Some strains can live for weeks ...DRYED....in a letter or on MONEY.....virus capsulates.
Good time to have 6mo. food in your hs.for sure.
If you are so very bright....tell me what would you use to disinfect surfaces?....spray bleach?
Hey I have an Idea!...Lets use this forum to Help other people!....maybe disseminate information....!He lets share knowledge !
It might be more fun than randomly snotting on each other for tiny ego reinforcement .
What say You captain?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks, Jane Long!
Man, when you get a hangnail, you don’t mess around! (8^D)
I read it that way at first too. (Paragraphs our are friends). But the Fort Worth doctor is another person than the patient currently being tested.
I have a feeling we are going to see wearing gloves back in style again, if for no other reason than to hide the nitrile ones underneath.
Best bet, though, since transdermal infection is not guaranteed, is to avoid touching common contact surfaces (the ones everyone touches).
Ladies just might want a feller to open a door for them again, and a doorman might come back into vogue (to avoid contamination and transmission).
If you must touch such surfaces, NEVER touch a mucous membrane, rub your eyes, eat, etc., before you have throughly washed your hands.
Good thing we are bringing them back to the USA.
The woman had traveled in Uganda and visited a bat cave while there. She fell ill and was admitted to a hospital. There, she received surgery, recovered, and was released without ever being diagnosed. Six months later, she requested repeat testing for Marburg since she had heard of a Dutch tourist who visited the same cave and developed a fatal case of Marburg. That testing revealed that she had, in fact, had Marburg. Contact tracing revealed that she had not caused a single secondary infection.
I fully expect that any cases of Ebola that manage to enter the US will have a similar outcome. The patient may or may not survive, but the disease is highly unlikely to spread any further than the affected patient.
Imported Case of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever --- Colorado, 2008
I'm glad that diseases like Ebola and Marburg aren't very contagious.
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