Posted on 08/02/2014 8:22:05 PM PDT by tcrlaf
One of two American aid workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus returned to the US from Africa on Saturday. Both were volunteers treating Ebola patients in Liberia, one of three countries affected in a West African outbreak that has so far killed 729 people, the deadliest outbreak in history.
Dr Kent Brantly of Texas was transported to the Emory University hospital in Atlanta, where he will be quarantined in a sophisticated isolation unit. He returned to the US in a private jet outfitted with a containment tent.
Transport of the second aid worker, the South Carolina missionary Nancy Writebol, is expected to be completed early in the week. She is also expected to be treated at Emory. Writebol is travelling later because the jet is only designed to carry one patient at a time.
Brantly arrived in the US at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia, and was driven by ambulance to the hospital, about 15 miles away. At the hospital, one person in protective clothing guided another, believed to be Brantly, towards a building. The ambulance was flanked by SUVs and police cars. About 20 members of the media were present at the hospital. There was no noticeable police presence and all roads were open.
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Poses “little” risk and prevent “much” of the transmission “if” a case were to show up here. This does not inspire confidence to me. They are acknowledging that there is a chance! Argh! But, I guess that would have nothing to do with transporting someone with the disease and exposing who knows who to it, here in the US.
Agreed!
Except when he disrobed... kind of hard to take it off without touching it.
In Africa there are quarantine camps, of which the people not actually sick will get as close to the edges of as they can. And generally the illness will burn out in the camp and the quarantine ends.
This seems to act like a disease that needs a superinfection to be fatal.
Just read an article where the disease is moving faster than anticipated. I have no faith in any government agencies. I just keep thinking “here comes Captain Tripps”.
You do realize that scores of infected people not showing signs or symptoms could make there way from Africa to the US on regular commercial flights. Those are the people that should be your concern.
One person coming to one of our best infectious disease research centers under extraordinary safety measures to allow the disease to be better studied is in the best interest of everyone.
Did you see the pictures of the NGO staff trying to care for the sick in Africa?
All they had were gowns, gloves and masks.
To the best of my knowledge they had no decon procedures or clean rooms...they were in fact in a tent outside.
Stories to the effect that these two Americans had hazmat suits and were infected somehow in spite of the protection are just nonsense.
They came in contact somehow, and due to the numbers I am thinking that their quarters became contaminated by one or more sick aid workers..
The only people spreading distortions are the usual collection of pansy azz chem trail, “plum Island” conspiracy peddlers in their pajamas.
Here comes Jerry Garcia? From the Greatful Dead? I don’t get it. FYI Captain Tripps is a nickname for Jerry Garcia.
“The country is in the hands of utter fools and evil men.”
...and women...Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Boehner, Holder, et al...maybe time for...
The government can’t find an IRS employee’s emails but they promise they will keep Ebola from spreading in the United States. ROTFL! Funny stuff.
The problem with many dead from a disease outbreak is that the decaying bodies causes even more diseases.... it’s a brutal downward spiral that could get out of hand every fast.
They are all concerning.
Not buying that unless we get definitive test results from a lab.
Ebola generally has a gestation period of 2-20 days...most being in the 1-2 week range.
If a African contracted it in Africa, chances are he would be very sick or dead before he travelled all the way up through mexico.
But even so, it’s very unlikely that any kind of African style outbreak could occur in the US. Our sanitary conditions are much better here and we do not have cultural habits of close contact with the dead and dying as they do in Africa.
In fact, it is this cultural affinity for families washing the body for burial and close contact with the dead family member that is making the disease difficult if not impossible at time to control and it has to burn out.
That won’t happen in the US. As I said, it’s a contact spread. That is why for nearly 4 decades of monitoring the disease that less than 3 thousand have died from it. We lose way more than that to the flu in one year.
Far as I know, the most recent numbers were 1300 infected with about half dying so far..
I think they can deal with it. It’s just that they have yet to see a decline in infections which tells you that the disease is on the down slope.
Until then, it is out of control, technically and numerically.
It is however the biggest outbreak they have had as it has spread to 4 different areas.
One other thing...
Regarding the Mexican mess..The diseases they are bringing in, except for TB which many of the previously vaccinated may no longer be protected, are generally the ones we vaccinate for.
As for scabies and stuff like that, control is fairly easy and the little buggers (arachnids)are easily killed and are not fatal. Dogs get the a similar bug, it’s called mange in a dog. there are some scabies that can affect both dog,s cats and people. Outbreaks are common in the US already.
But that’s all problems we can deal with.
Having said that, it should not be happening at all.
Once ebola is out in the population, it will become an epidemic. All the hazmat suits and surgical masks and isolation wards will not stop it, because it will be out in the wild, so to speak, subject to all the carelessness of the ordinary human.
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