Posted on 08/03/2014 7:27:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: I would like to know the background of the guy in Charge of the CDC,is he another Obama lackey?
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Dr. Tom Frieden is the Director of the Center for Disease Control.
See his background here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Frieden
BRIEF BACKGROUND:
Frieden graduated from Oberlin College (BA), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD) and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health (MPH).
He completed training in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and sub-specialty training in infectious diseases at Yale University.
Frieden’s work on tuberculosis in New York fostered public awareness and helped improve public funding (city, state and federal) for TB control.
The epidemic was controlled rapidly, reducing overall incidence by nearly half and cutting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by 80%. The city’s program became a model for tuberculosis control.
From 1996 to 2002, Frieden was based in India, assisting with national tuberculosis control efforts. As a medical officer for the World Health Organization on loan from the CDC, he helped the government of India implement the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP)
The 2008 RNTCP status report estimates the nationwide program resulted in 8 million treatments and 1.4 million saved lives.[12] While in India, Frieden worked to establish a network of Indian physicians to help India’s state and local governments implement the program[13] and helped the Tuberculosis Research Center in Chennai, India, establish a program to monitor the impact of tuberculosis control services.
Frieden served as head of the New York City DOHMH from 2002–2009. The agency employs more than 6,000 people with an annual budget of $1.5 bil
On 15 May 2009 the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services named Dr. Frieden the 16th director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR); he assumed his position on 8 June 2009 from the acting head, Richard E. Besser.
Let's pray it doesn't become a documentary.
Leni
Your link referencing the Hegelian Dialectic goes to a blank page that states that the resource has been removed. Just thought I would let you know.
That's likely to be Lois Lerner's call.
Yeah, when I was watching “Crazies” (with Radha Mitchell), I didn’t think it was a documentary.
Medical personnel would trace the contacts, interview them, and assess whether they were in close proximity of the ill person while that person was symptomatic. Ebola is only contagious when symptoms appear, so anyone who was around the person before symptoms will be monitored, not quarantined. Persons who are likely to have been near the person after symptoms appear would be quarantined for 21 days (the longest incubation time for Ebola).
Nope. Ebola is not spread through aerosols like measles or influenza is. Ebola is spread through contact with infected bodily fluids (including droplets from, for instance, someone vomiting nearby).
You aren't in danger from someone who has Ebola and has been in the same room. On the other hand, the mask won't protect you from splashes of bodily fluid from someone who has Ebola.
Nope. Ebola is not spread through aerosols like measles or influenza is. Ebola is spread through contact with infected bodily fluids (including droplets from, for instance, someone vomiting nearby).
You aren’t in danger from someone who has Ebola and has been in the same room. On the other hand, the mask won’t protect you from splashes of bodily fluid from someone who has Ebola.
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Unless, of course, they sneeze.
Droplet precautions are three feet.
Sneezing is not an Ebola symptom. Typically, they have diarrhea and vomiting; some may cough. Some bleed out. You want to avoid all bodily fluids.
In at least one case, a man gave his wife Ebola weeks after he recovered. I won't explain how.
Well no, disease doesn’t work like that. More likely she got it from their home where it can survive on surfaces.
Sneezing is not an Ebola symptom. Typically, they have diarrhea and vomiting; some may cough. Some bleed out. You want to avoid all bodily fluids.
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You can guarantee that someone is not going to sneeze? People sneeze for all sorts of reasons, sick or not.
Keep your dog license updated, and you’ll be good to go.
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