This tells the real story.
With this guy at the head, we are up $hits Creek without a paddle.
Viruses mutate. The Reston Ebola strain was found to be airborne. A 1 micron size droplet from a sneeze or vomiting can stay airborne for many hours. The standard N95 surgical mask will not capture 1 micron droplets.
He is a flat out liar. On one of the news shows today the nurses union representative mentioned that Dr. Tom visited Africa recently and wore a fully self contained unit with a respirator.
“Projectile vomiting....explosive diarrhea”
I don’t care what disease they have, I’m wearing the full suit!
HF
“As I said, it is not impossible that some of the other workers who were exposed, as the nurse was exposed, will develop Ebola.”
Now try saying it without the double negative.
Aside from being "simple and wrong," quick fixes like isolation will make it even harder to get help into the countries that need it, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden told reporters on Thursday. All isolation will do, said Frieden, is "enable the disease to spread more widely" in the most affected countries, which will in turn create "more potential for it to spread elsewhere and become more of a problem."
Apparently wearing protective head gear will also "enable the disease to spread my widely", idiot!!!
1) pigeon hole the VISA's2) establish a clinic in Africa, near an airport, where all outbound - to - the - USA fliers must enter and be processed
3) establish a set route using charter flights only between Africa (that clinic -and- airport) and the USA --- ie, if you want to fly to the USA, and you are from Africa and/or your VISA and/or passport place you as "from Africa" ... you have to adhere to (1), (2), and this, (3) ... or you cannot board the flight to the USA.
And, in general, there is a gross failure to make clear, the importance of personal hygiene, and that henceforth, you must not casually touch your head, anywhere without first washing your hands.
What we need, as much as a cure, is A RELIABLE QUICK-TEST FOR EBOLA.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Egads! Just common sense.
There is actually controversy about how much protective gear must or should be worn while caring for Ebola patients. Some doctors think that putting on too much gear can decrease dexterity and increase the chance of an accidental exposure, while others think that one should be completely covered.
Whenever I have worked with infectious agents, I would put on booties and bonnet, as well as lab coat, gloves, and eye protection. The agents I worked with were, like Ebola, non-aerosolizable agents.
FRIEDEN: Absolutely. More is not always better. Better is better. Sometimes you put on more layers, it’s harder to put on, harder to take off, you increase your risk of exposure. That’s what the science tells us.
then by that reasoning firemen shouldn’t wear Nomex and air tanks because its just too dang hard to put on and take off.
These truly are the dumbest people on the face of the Earth. They all should be sterilized so they can reproduce.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...