Posted on 10/09/2014 11:20:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are venting their outrage that the late Liberian may not have received the same quality of care leading up to his death Wednesday morning as the other patients treated in the U.S. for the dreaded virus.
'No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before. This is the first time,' Duncan's furious nephew Joe Weeks told ABC.
Weeks and others in Duncan's family are calling his treatment 'unfair,' after seeing other patients pulled from the brink of death in government-funded evacuation planes and using life-saving blood transfusions and cutting edge drugs.
Five US citizens have been diagnosed with Ebola and three of them have beaten it. NBC News cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, the latest American victim, arrived at the infectious disease ward at the University of Nebraska Medical Center this week for treatment. A fourth victim, a World Health Organization doctor, is being treated in Atlanta.
All five have been flown to specially designed infectious disease wards in Nebraska or Atlanta for treatment by some of the world's top doctors.
The anger from Duncan's family also stems from what happened before Duncan was seen by doctors but after he fell ill - when the Liberian was initially turned sent home by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital - the same hospital that later admitted him.
'What if they had taken him right away? And what if they had been able to get treatment to him earlier,' said Dallas pastor George Mason, a confidante of the family's, according to a CNN report.
While Mason told reporters that Duncan's fiance Louise Troh 'is not seeking to create any kinds of divisions in our community,' she has called for a full review of his medical care.
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No, I don’t think so. I think the company that patented the process still has a provisional patent.
They have no idea if it was the Zmapp that “cured” them. They also received transfusions from people who had survived.
This is a guy looking for payout.
They can’t say with the same certainty that they can of proven methods, which why I said it ostensibly works, not that it’s a proven cure. The trials that they’ve done on chimps within controlled experiments are showing a near 100% recovery rate, so the idea that this is just a wild coincidence is unlikely.
I’m aware of the chimp tests. We are not chimps.
I thought he didn’t know the woman he cared for in Liberia had ebola. I thought he didn’t know he was exposed. I thought he told the hospital that he was from Africa and never mentioned Liberia or ebola exposure.
I thought the hospital treated him for flu, given the flu-like symptoms.
I also thought the hospital’s software system, made by a company that’s an 0bama crony, didn’t have the profile of an ebola patient ready or something.
Have talked to people about this. We agree. It’s like those movies where people are ‘selected’ to be saved.
If that happens, then it will become an epidemic...
OK. Well I’m not sure of your point but there is enough evidence to move full speed on human trials and development. Ebola isn’t the flu; we’re not dealing with a 1918 pandemic situation. And ZMapp shows the most promise.
That’s tribal culture.
but its not cultural here in the US..
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