Posted on 10/12/2014 2:29:00 PM PDT by rdl6989
The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.
A nurse who had worn protective gear during her "extensive contact" at a Dallas hospital with an Ebola patient who died tested positive during a preliminary blood test, officials said Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
This week ought to be very interesting. We’ve seen only one infection so far. We are at the 21/22 day mark.
Praying we stay at the “one infected” number.
This is just like the nurse in Spain. They told her she HAD to have done something wrong. They made her think back ... Badgered her.
Then you have bureaucratic inertia. It is like getting two allied navies to co-ordinate their actions. You need a leader like Don Juan of Austria.
Exactly.
Someone say fundamental transformation?
Doubleplus ungud.
We are sending in tanks with small guns, right?
I heard the nurse in Dallas has a dog, but this dog will NOT be put down so that is good news..and yes, the CDC totally threw this woman under the bus..they won’t admit how this disease is truly spread so instead they blame the victim
Thank God, somebody finally actually read that CDC paper from 2005. I have been very angered by the wild panic and “they say” rumor-spreading about dogs and Ebola. Yes they can test seropositive for antibodies to Ebola. There is no evidence whatsoever that transmission of Ebola from a dog to a human has ever occurred. Dogs never become symptomatic, they don’t “catch” the disease per se. Asymptomatic means no transmission in other species. Given the evidence from Africa, it means the same in dogs.
Ping
Your optimism exceeds mine by a couple orders of magnitude.
Dogs asymtomatically carry the most deadly virus ever loosed on our nation. By all means, save the dog, because there’s never been a documented case of a dog passing this level 4 pathogen to humans, yet. Do you want to be there when/if it is documented?
I suggest you do it. Save us all from the canine menace.
I love dogs. Take some to Reston and see if they pass the pathogen to primates. They found pigs could... This would save a lot of dogs if things get uglier.
The CDC needs to explain in detail the “breach in protocol.” I find that hard to believe. You don’t get to ICU level expertise by being careless or stupid.
Wonder if drinking STERNO or crying will slow it down? (subtle reference to THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN)
and two navies that understand the commands they get
Also, the mentioned that putting the patient through kidney dialysis was particularly dicey ...
As well as doing a respiratory intubation of the patient.
I get the feeling this nurse was really involved with this guy. The CDC says that touching any of the tubing or machinery in this whole process is very dangerous.
My prayers out to her and her dog.
Well, sure. MSF’s Joanne Liu has repeatedly warned that the case numbers on the “official” tally, represent only 20% of reality.
The numbers that are being reported are only the numbers of people that make it into the clinics and have been diagnosed. With less than 1000 beds and only 10 Ebola Centers- total- for the three countries, you can see where the data isn’t even close to reality. People are being turned away in droves, because there are no beds available. The healthcare system in Liberia, teetering as it was before the outbreak, has completely collapsed. Check out the MSF news and blogs for an in-the-field perspective of this epidemic.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/our-work/medical-issues/ebola
Ebola has a narrow window between communicable and obvious, plus it is so very deadly. Even low tech can handle that fairly well.
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