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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The most severe symptoms are sudden onset.
You have a headache for a few days then out of the blue, projectile vomiting and diarrhea. THIS IS HOW IT SPREADS.
Like I said...contact.
Contact with another individual’s blood or fluids.
It’s not airborne.
In Africa it tends to propagate through families.
Since the mid seventies, only about 3 thousand have contracted it and that being in a densely populated place with some rather unusual social customs and poor hygiene to boot..
So I think we have more important things to worry about.
SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: The virus can survive in liquid or dried material for a number of days. Infectivity is found to be stable at room temperature or at 4°C for several days, and indefinitely stable at -70°C (6, 20). Infectivity can be preserved by lyophilisation.
Public Health Agency of Canada
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php
You sound like that Dr. on Fox Bernie Seigel who is making promises that there is no way it is a threat here in the US. Saying it is hard to transmit the disease, but in the same breath saying any exchange of bodily fluids will transmit the disease. If one has symptoms of the flu wth Ebola there are going to be coughing and sneezing. the water droplets from their body will spread out 20-30 feet in a typical sneeze. It just takes 1 water molecule from a sneeze to enter your eye membrane and then you now have an entrance to catching Ebola. I’m not buying this crap that we have nothing to worry about here in US like we are all immune to it, and there is no cure or vaccine so to have this invincible attitude is ridiculous.
Which words should strike such terror into the heart that the person hearing them runs screaming in the other direction.
Thanks, but no thanks. I can manage on my own, JUST FINE!!!!
I don't know what you mean by "transgenic inclusion." However, I would have no concern about transporting an Ebola patient who is completely contained within a BSL4 capable transport unit. Except for the fact that I am a researcher, not a health care provider, and so am the wrong person to be escorting a patient in the first place.
But thanks for your guarantees - what’s your next one?
The doctor was working long hours in a hot environment; he may have simply pushed his PPE past its recommended limits. It would only take a minuscule quantity of virus contaminated liquid to permeate the suit, and only a tiny break in his skin to allow the virus entry. I think everyone has tiny breaks in the skin, since minor injuries happen constantly, unnoticed.
I do not know if this applies to the doctor, but I have read that a worker in the decon area in which Nancy Writebol (the assistant) worked came down with Ebola and continued to show up for work while symptomatic (he has since died). So, in the area where virus was supposed to be destroyed, someone was actually spreading it.
Sorry, I always spelled it with 2 “p”s. Ooops.
There is no sneezing...not caused by Ebola in any case.
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Well, when you find a place in the US that has a temperature of 95 degrees below zero....let me know.
As to being worried about a few days, by that time the disease and location will be identified and the CDC or local authorities would clean it up, stopping the spread and isolating any who were exposed.
Now that is of course assuming that the bug could get out of the isolation ward of the hospital. That would not likely be the case, and if it were, I doubt we would be doing this.
And, that could never happen here, right?
You don't think medicine has advanced a little in the past 100 years?
Good point. If the international news spreads throughout the Ebola infected area that the US offers hope here under Obamacare, then anticipate a number of illegal immigrants to migrate from west Africa through Latin America into the US via our southern border.
The Border Patrol and Health Services have been tapped out, while FEMA is tooled up for 200million deaths.
Ezekiel 7,8
Eze 7:15
(15) The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Not when they are wearing suits like these and have to go through airlocks to enter and leave the treatment rooms. The entire suit is disinfected in the airlock when the person leaves the containment room.
Thank you so much for the pings. You have been a busy guy the last two weeks.
And the person's name, who oversees the Secretary of the DHHS is?....
He’s trying to kill us all.
Ok, say someone has a flu with the addition of Ebola. Then what? What I can’t stand are people making excuses for someone with a deadly illness based on theory. What if the Ebola virus mutates? So many variables that cannot be answered by Drs.
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