Posted on 09/30/2014 1:44:05 PM PDT by Crazieman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States.
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If it wasn’t picked up the FIRST visit you have to wonder if he was being ‘economical with the truth’ like Patrick Sawyer and just left the part out about the trip to Liberia.
First break in of the white house?
on july 31, 2014 they updated the Executive Order for quarantine...
Whose going to know if you have it or survive or die?
Not so.
Nancy Writebol wasn't in contact with patients, but caught Ebola from contamination on protective gear others had worn, for one well documented instance. The virus remains active for hours outside the human body in secretions, the ID50 dose is one to ten viral organisms, and any mucous membrane, inhalation of droplets, contact with the eyes, or any open wound can lead to infection. There is debate about transdermal infection, as motorcycle cab drivers in Liberia were coming down with Ebola, possibly by contact with sweaty passengers.
In short, we know what vectors definitely deliver a high viral load, but we are still sketchy on how little and what low load vectors effectively transmit the virus, mainly because most of those who were in low contact situations in Africa were also in high load contact situations as well.
It took Kimberly Bergalis being infected with AIDS with a dentist's drill before anyone believed that anything but IV drug use or sexual contact would spread that disease.
With the CDC downplaying the danger and doctors in Africa describing the disease as "highly contagious", who are you going to believe?
Good point about the potentially infected ambulance. Throw in the vehicle the victim travelled in to and fro the hospital on the day they refused to admit him.
Many is the time when the pt leaves out massive amounts of info and we show up at the hospital and they start spilling out info to the docs or triage nurse. At that point you realize that you were merely a fancy painted taxi...
In past decade, US had at least 5 patients with deadly, hemorrhagic fevers. All were isolated, none ever led to an outbreak.
At this point nothing new at the twitter conference. Looks like a repeat of today’s press conference with the first answer to a question that was posed.
Ebola spreads more easily than Aids. How are we doing containing Aids?
..”This is just fear mongering for an agenda. I’m not worried.”....
I’m not at this point either...that does not mean I can’t see the potential if they aren’t careful about reaching the folks who’ve had direct contact with this guy and make sure they’re co-operating.
The hospital staff certainly need to stay home and their kids.
Well...I don’t see that connection....and even if so...aids spread was nothing like measles etc before they had vaccines etc...not to mention when they’ve closed schools because of the flue virus... that too was killing people not so long ago.
You get aids...you’re never cured...Ebola is curable.
After he fought them, ripped out his IV and proceeded to urinate on them.
Am reading basically the same things you are reading. There is no good time for an outbreak to hit and being that we are two weeks from basically knowing if there is a beginning of an outbreak and then one month to six weeks in knowing if containment worked if there are additional cases we’re breaking new ground. After six weeks we have information but until then there are many variables and unknowns as best as can tell from my readings.
But not here....and I have to agree with why it has spread so fast in the African nations....entirely different country and may as well say no medical facilities, people highly suspicious and superstitious, with horrible burial rites that all set this in a whirl-wind there..and still does..
Curable, BUT with a 60% death rate. That means for 60% of ebola patients, they are never cured.
And “cured” does not mean a 100% return to good health. Many develop chronic conditions that are with them for life
Didn’t some Ebola patients in Sierra Leone bust out, break into the children’s ward, eat all their food and then go leak all over the courtyard? Zombies, essentially.
“But not here”
With a sampling of one known patient here, your statement is beyond silly
I don’t know which is worse...the hype that’s building...or the means they’re using to prevent the hype which seems to also build the hype.
However better to be over-informed than not at all....
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