Isolation procedures of infected individuals

[justanothergunnut]

Any outbreak can be a serious issue for a survivalist to deal with. Bird flu, Pig flu, Ebola, TB, Cholera etc. etc. Now might be a good time to at least read up on and learn the protocols for handling infectious disease. Some stuff is common sense. Wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough, wear a N95 mask. The CDC has printed guidelines for dealing with infectious disease. Below is a link to one such document. I will warn you, it's 250+ pages and can get rather detailed and technical but I found some good info in it..

http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/isolat...lation2007.pdf

[rockriver]

I nor wife have any medical skills...
so this is huge issue for us..
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but, I have just completed "basic" living quarters for a new guest.
a shed has been made liveable... so that if ebola cranks up and my son shows up..
he gets to live in the shed for 3 weeks or so, till we are sure he's not "hot."
it won't be nice living conditions but it would beat the tent that guest number 2 will get.

I'm curious what others are doing...
I can see this being a musical chairs process.

son gets shed for 3 weeks...
cousin shows and gets tent1 a week later.
brother in law shows and gets tent2 a week after that.

son is clear at 3 weeks and moves to house.
son cleans shed. and cousin moves to shed for his remaining 2 weeks.

I'll be wanting to put these folks to work..
maintaining distance and separation during the day will be tough...

comments?
general suggestions?

it's hot as blue blazes in our part of country... I guess folks in tents could set up under some big ole shade trees... it would help if I ran a water line in that direction... cost wouldn't be big...
oh yeah... there's the goat shelter! it has water!
kill the goat or stake him out.
new guest could dig the poop out of goat shelter, if they didn't like the tent!
and stay in goat shelter... imagine a 3 sided shed.
lol... I can see potential guest complaining... lol... ok... you don't like tent, and you don't like goat shelter... see ya. down the road you go... !!