Ebola in USA

[Rmplstlskn]

Word from my "Institute of Higher Learning" medical facility is that they, as well as many other high-risk medical facilities (that have foreign students), are getting aggravated by the LACK of information being passed down to them. The medical providers here still do not know how the nurse was infected, or if it was respiratory and the N95 masks did not keep Ebola virus out (only 95% rating for N95). There is concern that they are not being told "everything" and that it may require high-level protective gear.

You start pissing off lots of physicians, nurses, and admins by not sharing info and heads will roll...

Rmpl

[Tackleberry]

Yes, #2 was one of his primary caregivers to #1 while he was in ICU.

[Patriotic Sheepdog]

The CDC confirmed a second case of Ebola in Texas. The patient was an RN who had extensive contact with the Liberian who lied his way into the US. The RN was in full protective gear but still managed to get infected. Supposedly, the RN did not follow the proper protocols when taking off the protective gear. Seems to me gov't officials are not being straight with us about the contagiousness of this disease. If someone can get infected just by taking off protective gear then how can the gov't claim that passengers riding on a plane flight lasting hours have little or no likelihood of getting infected?

This just doesn't pass the smell test.

I agree, there is a lot of information that doesn't pass the sniff test. However, this nurse could have just screwed up once, and that was all it took. Let me explain. Most likely there were a limited amount of people that were allowed into his room, a couple doctors, a handful of nurses and respiratory therapists and probably a few others. The docs prob went into the room a couple times a day, same with the others except the nurses. They probably went into and out of his room 12-25 times each 12 hour shift. Anytime he called they would have to go in. Anytime meds needed to be given, meals, cleaning him, changing the sheets, emptying his Foley catheter, changing the IV bags, etc. all it would have taken was one simple little mistake like taking off her gloves before removing the gown. Sure, she's a professional and has done things a certain way thousands of times, but all it takes is one mistake.

Now again, the sniff test still smells bad, I agree. They told us we couldn't catch it from a sneeze, well the WHO thinks different. http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-h...rfaces/5407164

Stay alert and away from crowds.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[1Admin]

So have they stated that this gal #2 in Dallas area was one of the caregivers to #1?

[rockriver]

travelling

I have some long distance trips coming up in the short term..
I really need to make the trips.
however...
if ebola is popping up in multiple cities and multiple sick folks per big city...
heck no... I ain't gonna go...

I might even be a d.a. for still considering it!

[rockriver]

I don't know who laurie is...? or her credentials... possibly CFR..
anyhow, an interesting summary of the history of ebola and other nations responses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ex-Pn72eu4

[Tackleberry]

The CDC confirmed a second case of Ebola in Texas. The patient was an RN who had extensive contact with the Liberian who lied his way into the US. The RN was in full protective gear but still managed to get infected. Supposedly, the RN did not follow the proper protocols when taking off the protective gear. Seems to me gov't officials are not being straight with us about the contagiousness of this disease. If someone can get infected just by taking off protective gear then how can the gov't claim that passengers riding on a plane flight lasting hours have little or no likelihood of getting infected?

This just doesn't pass the smell test.

[Jeweltgirl]

The Frisco, Texas patient has been identified as a Dallas County Sheriff's deputy.

The patient "exhibiting signs and symptoms" of Ebola claims to have had contact with family members of the man diagnosed with the disease in Dallas. But the person did not have contact with Thomas Eric Duncan.

Find it odd that this low risk Deputy might have it but not the family that had physical contact with Duncan dont.

o.0 watching to much news again today..

[protus]

Ebola double tap...

[protus]

Second case in Texas....Guy had contact with recently living zero....but goes to a walk in clinic for treatment.
What part of isolation do these idjits not get.!!qqqq

[Jeweltgirl]

Yes he did pass away. Now the family wants answers..

They want to know why he didnt get the drug earlier.
They want to know why he didnt get blood from the other ebola survivors like the camerman. ( As far as I know it was donated from the survivor, free will to do as he pleases with HIS blood. Is there some law that says he has to give his blood.)

Its sad that a man lost his life. But he lied to get in the US. I understand the family wants answers.

And why have we not closed the hotspots into the US?


Rockriver we the tax payers will pay the bill, I wouldnt be suprised if they file a lawsuit over this. Just have to wait and see.

[rockriver]

supposedly the texas illegal muslim lying male has died.
his family and country of Liberia should repay us for all the medical expense.

[Tackleberry]

I found this article today in The Guardian....

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak

The guy being interviewed is the doctor who first identified the Ebola virus in 1976. He provides some very good insight into the history of the virus and its ability to mutate as it travels from host to host.

[Jeweltgirl]

Do you really think that they would tell us if another person in US was positive?

They now have cleaned the apt. And the family was moved to a unlisted location. So now all we can do is wait for them to say- they show no signs. REALY? If they did would they tell us?

Authorities announce D.C. patient's Ebola status
The deadly Ebola virus has been ruled out for a patient hospitalized in Washington, D.C., authorities announced Saturday.
Howard University Hospital announced Friday that the patient was hospitalized after traveling to Nigeria and presenting symptoms that could be associated with the virus.

CDC Keeps Passengers On Plane At Newark Airport After Man Shows Ebola-Like Symptoms
Officials said on Saturday that a sick passenger and his daughter that were taken off a flight from Brussels to Newark over fears he might have Ebola, does not have the disease, ABC News reported.

Anyone else notice they say its not ebola its malaria?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/4/patient-maryland-hospital-has-malaria-not-ebola/

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10/possible-ebola-patient-in-isolation-at-d-c-s-howard-university-hospital-107754.html

Guess I am watching to much TV. :(

[1Admin]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1

U.S. officials leading the fight against history's worst outbreak of Ebola have said they know the ways the virus is spread and how to stop it. They say that unless an air traveler from disease-ravaged West Africa has a fever of at least 101.5 degrees or other symptoms, co-passengers are not at risk.
"At this point there is zero risk of transmission on the flight," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said after a Liberian man who flew through airports in Brussels and Washington was diagnosed with the disease last week in Dallas.
Ebola prevention in L.A. County: Officials will outline what's being done Joseph Serna


Other public health officials have voiced similar assurances, saying Ebola is spread only through physical contact with a symptomatic individual or their bodily fluids. "Ebola is not transmitted by the air. It is not an airborne infection," said Dr. Edward Goodman of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where the Liberian patient remains in critical condition.

Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.