Posted on 05/13/2014 12:13:33 PM PDT by Kartographer
Dr. Antonio Crespo says two hospital workers were showing flu-like symptoms after coming into contact with the 44-year-old man. One was cleared, but the other was admitted to the hospital.
About 15 other workers, including two physicians, at Dr. Phillips Hospital, as well as five workers at Orlando Regional Medical Center where the Saudi resident also visited, have been asked to stay home from work for two weeks until they are cleared of having the virus.
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What’s the death of a few people compared to the bottom line? Times are hard. (sarc)
Yes knowingly letting a sick person off a plane from a outbreak country could be an opening.
That wasn’t my point but thanks for the vote of confidence.
You can’t be sued if your employee makes someone else sick in most cases. Unless your employee knew he had MERS and you knew he had MERS and assigned him to a task likely to cause others to catch it. The medical community will say it is unlikely to spread without close physical contact (or drinking camel urine) but these two cases seem to challenge that theory.
Companies in the world trade center make the same call before 9/11 and some companies ceased to exist.
Flu kills thousands of people every year. How many lawsuits do you see from it?
Relax. Not only is MERS readily treated with supportive care, but as a rule, emerging pathogens rapidly diminish in virulence as they are transmitted from one patient to another and get further away from their natural reservoirs. MERS seems to be following that course, and like SARS, it will almost certainly soon be of minimal concern except to specialists.
So a a plane coming from Saudi has a sick passenger. He gets off the plane and no one notifies TSA or CDC that they had a sick passenger on board?
And employee calls the office he’s in Saudi and is ill and has decide to come home early from his business trip and all the company does is say OK?
If it does, but what if it follows the course of say of the Spanish Flu and even say it only infects 1% of the population what happens to the healthcare system when 1% of 320 million people become ill?
Oh yes don’t forget they said it wasn’t easily transmitted either.
You sure about that?
BARCELONA, Spain — A team from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) just back from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, reports that there appears to be no change in either the virulence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) or its transmissibility.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824986 .
24th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). Presented May 11, 2014.
Pretty much
Advances in vaccines and antiviral drugs offer the prospect of more effective control of viruses in the future. Recombinant DNA technologies will lead to new vaccines and even the ability to develop a vaccine for mass immunization during a pandemic.
Its nice to be sure, but I am dubious on anyone, who’s outlook depends on ‘luck’.
As I pointed out if it just becomes infectious enough to spread to 1% of our population do you really think that they can come up with enough vaccine and enought healthcare support in such a short period of time to even put a dent in what would happen?
MERS, which, like SARS is a corona virus, seems to have a similar limited person to person transmissibility. Given that camels seem to be a natural reservoir for the MERS virus, the disease is unlikely to be much of a menace outside of the Mideast.
See my comment at post #34.
The viral threat that haunts the experts is influenza, a proven mass killer that remains much with us and has a distressing capacity for rapid mutation. MERS is almost certain to be a passing novelty.
That is good news because it indicates that the virus has not changed its nature. As the article explained, the recent spike in the number of MERS in the past 3 weeks was due to a seasonal increase in primary cases and to secondary cases caused by in-hospital transmission. The Saudis need to improve the adherence of their medical personnel to infection control protocols.
3rd case, from exposure to the second case. Sure seems to transmit easily.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-reports-third-case-potential-mers-virus-221726835.html
Seems that way to me as well.
I sometimes wonder how many Government ‘disinformation’ agents peruse FR?
And just how many people have those airplane passengers been around in the past 12 days, huh? Notice the Health Dept. didn't want to risk their employees so sent a letter which may or may not be delivered and may or may not be opened but hey, like cops, the gov workers all went home safe that night.
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