Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
I have spent a little time compiling links to threads about the Ebola outbreak in the interest of having all the links in one thread for future reference.
Please add links to new threads and articles of interest as the situation develops.
Thank You all for you participation.
(Where they have BSL-4 facilities, not the sh*t they used in Dallas--less PPE than they use in Liberia)
WHOdo...Hoodoo you think you're foolin'?
A. How much virus is required in a fluid millimeter of bodily fluid (saliva, blood, vomit, etc) to transmit the virus in X manner (contact, droplet, etc.)?B. Which surfaces of the human body are capable of absorbing the Ebola virus and which are not?
C. At what point of infection is the virus able to passed to an uninfected human via which transmission vectors? What are the relative probabilities of each possible transmission vector?
Frankly, what we don't know about this virus and its course in the human body is a much longer list than what we do know.
U.S. stock futures are down considerably half an hour ahead of the 9:30 a,.m. ET opening bell. Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes are all off about 1.3% or more.
Stock markets in Asia tumbled earlier after Wall Street saw wild swings Wednesday before ending down 173 points.
I can’t blame parents for refusing to send their kids to school under these circumstances. No one with half a brain believes what’s coming out of the CDC and when it’s your children’s very lives, most parents will opt for extreme caution.
This thing is getting crazier by the moment.
“Unfortunately, yesterday Mitch McConnell said that “we should do whatever the CDC recommends,” when asked about stopping flights out of West Africa.”
— St_Thomas_Aquinas
Good GRIEF !!!!!!
[Well said.]
“We’re limiting the ability of Americans who might have come on contact with Ebola patients to fly domestically, but we won’t stop people from West Africa from coming here.
PC has finally run amok!!” — ken5050
Yeah, some condoms are made of sheep skin if I’m not mistaken. Many tear. Only 85% safe. And how are male ebola survivors vetted reg. US VISAs?
Frontier Air contact watch list = 176
TPH staff contact watch list. = 75
Total approx 260. @10% = 26
Only 18 beds left at BSL-4 facilties
What now Dr Tom?
Possible tertiary case in Madrid.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/10/16/inenglish/1413464298_279144.html
Oh, yes.
We are so much better than *those* people in West Africa because we have the best health care in the world—and the CDC! Why, if we were ever to get a case of Ebola here, we would stop it in its tracks! One and done!
I’m pretty sure that Ebola didn’t read that script. What a mess.
Fever detected in patient moved in ambulance after Spanish Ebola victimOne of the patients who was moved in the ambulance used by Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero, who is currently battling the Ebola virus in Madrid’s Carlos III Hospital, began to show signs of a fever this morning. The news was announced by Fernando Simón, the spokesperson of a committee created by the government to manage the Ebola crisis in Spain, which began last week when Romero, who had treated Spanish missionaries with the virus at Carlos III, was confirmed to have contracted the disease.
The person in question was isolated in their home while arrangements were made for transfer to Carlos III for observation. A blood test will also be carried out, the results of which will be made public this afternoon, to determine whether the virus is present.
Simón did not offer any details as to how the person had come into contact with Romero, but did say that it was not a member of any medical team and had been classified as having a very low risk of infection. It later emerged, however, that the patient was one of the seven people who later rode in the same ambulance used to transport Romero to the emergency room in Madrid suburb Alcorcón. The ambulance did not count on special protective measures and was not disinfected until 12 hours later, after its crew had finished their shift.
The protocols were put into action on Thursday morning, when the person informed medical staff of a fever above 37.7ºC. That is the new limit before a patient is taken into isolation. The protocol was altered after Romero spent a week carrying out her day-to-day life, despite showing symptoms. Doctors had not considered her a suspected case of Ebola given that she was not presenting a temperature above the previous limit of 38.6ºC.
Frontier Airline statement Via Gateway Pundit at this link:
Statement by Frontier CEO David Siegel via the Denver Channell:
“At 1:55 p.m. MDT (Wednesday) Frontier was notified by the CDC that the passenger may have been symptomatic earlier than initially suspected; including the possibility of possessing symptoms while onboard the flight.
“In light of the new information, Frontier determines that the aircraft will remain out of service and ferries it back to Denver from Cleveland without customers. The flight departs at 6:20 p.m. EDT and arrives in Denver at 7:20 p.m. MDT. In an abundance of caution, it is determined that the aircraft will receive a fourth cleaning since the infected customer was onboard. Though not required, this cleaning will consist of the removal of seat covers and carpets in the immediate vicinity of the passenger seat. The airline will also change the environmental filters onboard.
“NOTE: These extraordinary actions went beyond CDC recommendations. These steps were taken out of concern for the safety of our customers and employees. Steps such as removing the aircraft from service, removing aircraft seat covers and carpet and replacing environmental filters as well as placing the crew on paid leave were not requested nor mandated by the CDC. Frontier expects that the aircraft will return to service in a few days.”
Exactly.
Amber Vinson boarded the plane with a temp of 99.5 F, after she called CDC to verify it. What was her temperature when she got OFF the plane? I seem to remember Duncan in the ER the first time, coming in without a fever, but it spiked to 103 F while he was there.
Amber reported to the hospital with symptoms just hours after she flew. Frieden acts as if there is some mystical Ebola switch that turns on the infection once the fever inches up to 100.4 F, but not a moment before that. Can he really not think outside that box? Isn’t that what someone that heads the Center for DISEASE CONTROL should do??
I’m just gobsmacked at the incompetence on display— and the arrogance throughout.
I double-dog dare him to go hug and kiss the nurses in Presby who were treating Duncan.
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” Long day. Presby Dallas employees have been banned from texting at work. The admin team enacted that. They are trying to lock down on the info leaks. They have the right to check employees texts whenever they want now.
5 or 6 nurses of various rank and a doctor are being monitored. I'm told they have fever and they all treated Duncan. I expect a positive diagnosis for ebola soon if the hospital doesn't try to hide it (which they are trying to do now). I believed my source before, but upon learning more details about the source, I am almost 100% convinced now.
Rumors that Parkland hospital has a patient that may have ebola. “
Parkland is the major indigent/illegal immigrant care facility in the Dallas area. Having Ebola there would have a huge impact on Latino and African-American health care in the DFW area.
Hard data from Liberia not really available.
Ebola Deaths Near 4,500 as Virus Spreads in W Africa
http://m.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/Ebola-deaths-near-4-500-as-virus-spreads-in-W-Africa-20141016
2014-10-16 11:44
Monrovia - A total of 4,493 people have died from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
WHO said a total of 8,997 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola had been reported in seven countries as of 12 October, with the vast majority of these in the three West African nations.
In Spain and the United States, a handful of healthcare workers are ill, while Senegal and Nigeria appear to have prevented further spread of the disease, the WHO said.
“It is clear...that the situation in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, with widespread and persistent transmission of (Ebola),” the WHO report stated.
In Guinea 843 people have died of the disease and an increase in new cases was driven by a spike in infection in the coastal capital Conakry and the nearby district of Coyah.
In Liberia, the UN health agency said that problems with data gathering made it hard to draw conclusions about the evolution of the epidemic, with the number of cases in the capital Monrovia almost certainly significantly under-reported.
New cases
The United States is deploying up to 4,000 troops to West Africa to help contain an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever with the bulk of the effort targeting Liberia.
They are building 17 Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) across the country, a task that should be completed by the end of the year according to Ben Hemingway, the team leader for aid agency USAID’s Disaster Assistance Response in Liberia.
Six such units are already up and running, he said.
“We see the ETUs as a referral system, but there will also be community care centres established throughout the counties,” Hemingway said.
“The idea is that you will be able to get care closer to home so that if you are confirmed with Ebola you will be able to be moved to the unit (ETU) for a longer care there.”
Nearly half of all the deaths in the latest outbreak have happened in Liberia. However, the number of cases appears to be falling in Liberia’s northern Lofa county, the former epicentre of the outbreak on the border with Guinea, it said.
In Sierra Leone, transmission of the disease was rampant with 425 new cases between 6 October and 12 October, WHO said, with the capital Freetown and the neighbouring western districts of Bombali and Port Loko the hardest hit.
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