Posted on 08/02/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by mojito
Really, these two patients whose transport and hospitalization is being scrutinized to a higher degree than any other two people in the world are "putting everyone else at risk"? I don't buy that. And if something bizarre happened, like an aircraft or vehicle crash, the area would be cordoned off immediately. That's how we do things in this country. You would not see little kids picking through the wreckage like you would in Africa or parts of Ukraine. And there is already Ebola in this country in a few labs (we hope not in general travelers).
Is this the FIRST ever in this country? Funny how these things happen in at the end of the week, when Obama is in office. Just like Bowe Bergdahl, slip it in on a weekend, no one will notice.
That's ridiculous. Are you afraid they brought a container load of African Fruit Bats along on the trip?
Also, many extremely hazardous chemicals and agents are used in industry and stored all around you. Some of these will kill you with greater efficacy than Ebola. Do you plan all your trips with at least a ten mile buffer between you and any kind of factory or storage facility?
Who said they were abandon to their fate? It’s not as if we don’t have hundreds of other medical personnel and equipment over there.
It’s amazing to me that a doctor who is supposedly so charitable and selfless somehow thinks he’s better than his poor patients and deserves healthcare that no one in Liberia will likely ever receive.
And I grew up in Africa and was treated for a blood borne disease by Christian missionaries. So I know exactly what he’s been doing over there. And why.
When (not if) this becomes an outbreak in this country the blame will be put squarely on Christian do-gooders.
Wait and see.
Because we can surely trust the CDC to handle their pathogens in an appropriately safe manner:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/02/us-usa-healthcare-cdc-idUKKBN0G201A20140802
Impossible to tell really, but he’s certainly completely exposed in that picture, as is the person who he’s working with, even tho’ she is wearing scrubs and a mask.
He looks like he’s a fine fellow, as does the woman, but as we know nature doesn’t really care about one’s character.
What’s the truly disturbing aspect of that book is just how many times CDC personnel broke protocol. And broke it with a disease they suspected was a level 4 pathogen in humans.
But failed to tell anyone that needed to know because they didn’t want to start a panic.
Bottom line, any plane should be set ablaze and then bulldozed into a very deep hole.
There’s a better picture here, borrowed this link from another thread. They look pretty covered up, but basically if you’re not in a space suit I’ve got doubts.
According to wiki:
“No ebolavirus-specific treatment exists.[52] Treatment is primarily supportive in nature and includes minimizing invasive procedures, balancing fluids and electrolytes to counter dehydration, administration of anticoagulants early in infection to prevent or control disseminated intravascular coagulation, administration of procoagulants late in infection to control hemorrhaging, maintaining oxygen levels, pain management, and administration of antibiotics or antimycotics to treat secondary infections.”
Sounds like more than giving them water to me.
Ebola's also lethal cousin, Marburg, found its way to Colorado in 2008. The patient survived and was diagnosed in hindsight 6 months later after the patient read about a fatal, but similar, case imported to Holland, and requested re-testing. Marburg was considered as a diagnosis while she was ill, but the tests for it then came back negative. Not an entirely encouraging story to me.
God Bless these two American ebola victims and may He guide the medical staff charged with healing them.
FWIW, they wear rubber boots under the suits.
All of which can be done in a field hospital.
Ask any military medic how that works.
Wearing the boots under the suit itself doesn’t prevent the suit from becoming damaged.
If he’d been wearing boots OVER the suit it would be a different thing.
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