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.
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I’m with you. EBOLA = CA here it comes.
I think it’s not the suit but on removal of the suit where contamination occurs
The nurse’s dog is alone in the sealed and guarded apartment. HAZMAT men cleaned around the outside of the guarded apartment. Reportedly, the dog will be “taken care of.”
Not a snow balls chance. He doesn't want to catch Ebola.
Guess I was wrong, the woman on the flight at LAX was from SOUTH Africa, said she gets sick on planes(Probably suffers from air sickness, happens to my sister too) at least they checked..but eventually it will happen here..the liberals who are SO gleeful that its hit Texas won’t be laughing when karma bites them in the ass
Right.
They’d have to pay me extra to work with ebola patients. A whole bunch of extra.
Not bloodstream...but droplets in the eyes, nose, and mouth have always worked.
Maybe 10-15 infected West African ‘ebola escapee’ travellers circulating around Wash DC, contacting 1000s, and then dying in local hospitals and infecting 10-20 health care workers - maybe it will take an out of control disaster like that to get the attention of O’Bola, Frieden and their perception-management experts.
But I know they’re psychotically out of touch.
Very possible.
You know, no one except for long-term employees of Level IV biocontainment facilities (all 19 of them), is really thoroughly trained in the use of Level 4 gear, and more or less the same for Level 2. Pretty much everyone else has been rushed into this to some degree. So don't believe it when they say it isn't possible that medical providers and technicians can't make a mistake and breach protocol. Most certainly they can. Add in the normal propensities to rush things and overlook details and the rest and you WILL have breaches.
They are keeping a tight lid on this thing. I do not know anyone directly involved but did talk to a person who knows those directly involved in the investigation.
All that has escaped was that it was an inpatient nurse and theory is improper removal of PPE or a dialysis related contamination.
The most difficult part of the training is the sequence and methodology for disrobing. One little error here, and it is all over. The protective stuff works fine, but the taking off procedure is the killer.
Great points, and absolutely agree.
It’s absolutely ridiculous for anyone in medicine, let alone politicians and MSM people, to make dogmatic pronouncements about what can and cannot happen with this virus. We don’t even fully understand its biology. Science without skepticism and humility is stupidity on steroids.
It is becoming a distinction without a difference.
Bottom line: it demonstrates just how contagious it is, and how easy it is to contaminate the equipment that is supposed to protect the caregivers. That’s exactly why quarantines are necessary.
Obola will probably order all cases to be sent to Dallas, Texas.
It was just heavy metals, oils, etc. - so nothing to bad. Maybe give you cancer if you got too much, but nothing like Ebola. Taking off the gloves was always tricky - but if you got a smudge of oil on your wrist it was no big deal. A “smudge” of Ebola is a whole ‘nother thing.
I have always thought that spraying you down with an invisible, fluorescent substance before you decon would be a good idea. Do the decon, use a black light to confirm you got the substance (and nasties) off you before you take off the gear.
Go listen to the whole speech from this guy at the CDC. Such Doublespeak and linear thinking. They didn’t say they know of a specific breach in protocol, like she touched him with an ungloved hand or touched something he wiped his nose with. He’s saying there “must” have been a breach in protocol because, by golly, we know that the protocols work so therefore if she got it there “must” have been a breach in the protocol. This is the type of logic that brought you “the Maginot line is impenetrable, therefore those can not be German soldiers, because to get here they would have to get through the Maginot line, which as we told you, cannot be penetrated”.
But what if the protocols aren’t enough? I’m not suggesting the disease may be completely airborne, but what if a sneeze or cough puts the virus in the air for much longer than they know? Bottom line is it sounds like the CDC is spinning here.
for hospital nurses, you're lucky if you have enough gowns in your isolation cart and your total assignment is not one iota less than someone without an isolation patient....
iows....TPTB don't care about the actual nurses taking care of these people....we're expendable and we get the lack of staff and lack of supplies that shows it....
The problem is that the CDC protocol is faulty.
From the pictures, the PPE the docs and nurses were wearing were inadequate levels of protection to prevent infection
This nurse may not be the last member of the Duncan care team to become infected.
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