Posted on 09/11/2014 6:50:54 AM PDT by null and void
As the current Ebola outbreak's death toll continues to skyrocket, with almost half of all 2,288 deaths occurring within the last 21 days, the lack of sufficient medical personnel to treat all those affected threatens to spread the disease even further, as even the equipment used to keep safe from Ebola can carry the disease.
As Discovery News reports, the HAZMAT suits used by medical personnel to protect themselves while treating Ebola victims can carry the virus; it does not die upon leaving the body and landing on the protective gear. This means that, while doctors and nurses using protective gear can shield themselves from the virus while wearing it, the removal procedures and process of destroying used HAZMAT gear could result in someone inadvertently coming into contact with the virus.
As of August, the World Health Organization warned that 170 health care workers had contracted Ebola. Discovery notes that over 120 health care workers have died of Ebola since the outbreak began in January. In Nigeria, only one patient who has died of Ebola-- the first patient, Patrick Sawyer-- was not a health care worker.
All four Americans diagnosed with Ebola have been medical workers. Two-- Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol-- have already been cured after being treated at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital. A third, Dr. Rick Sacra, is currently being treated in a hospital in Nebraska, and a fourth patient who has not been identified is currently receiving treatment at Emory University Hospital after being airlifted out of Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization has called the outbreak "unprecedented" and warned that the affected countries-- Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, and Senegal-- do not have adequate medical infrastructure to properly contain the spread of the virus.
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All the more reason to bring Ebola patients here for treatment, right, right???
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Bring them here, then parcel them out around the country the same way the illegals are being placed all around the country.
Gotta bring pestilence on a massive scale to achieve that utopian dream.
I don’t believe you. The Ebola experts on FR tell me that is impossible.
well done
Evidently, getting out of the suit without getting contaminated is the “trick” and the riskiest part of treating Ebola patients, if you have on one of these suits. Saw this on a link somewhere ..... can’t remember exactly where.
Lesson # 1 When a hazmat suit gets dirty you cannot turn it inside out and wear it again.
*nully ducking and running for cover*
Lesson # 1 When a hazmat suit gets dirty you cannot turn it inside out and wear it again.
Why not....it works for my underwear.
Wash your hands!
That’s what they tell us in the hospital setting.
To get a thorough hand washing ,sing row,row,row your boat.
Now the boat has no oars ,so there is a new hand washing campaign by WHO,but still now word yet on bleach bathing.
Wash your hands!
That’s what they tell us in the hospital setting.
To get a thorough hand washing ,sing row,row,row your boat.
Now the boat has no oars ,so there is a new hand washing campaign by WHO,but still now word yet on bathing in bleach.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Silly, that only works on your buddy’s condom
In the goobermint labs where they research deadly organisms don’t they have decontamination showers that bathe the outside of the suits in chemicals?
I wonder if they have these showers at Emory and at the other 3 sites.
So is the correct way to get out of your bug-suit is to have someone hose you down with bleach for several minutes, then rinse you with clean sterile water and then let you remove your suit?
Maybe in Africa, it would be better not to wear the suits, since contamination may be coming from the suits. One of the Americans did not have contact with the patients, but was one of those responsible for decontaminating the suits.
They probably have to wear the suits again right after they have been “decontaminated” in Africa. I don’t imagine they have a lot of spare suits in some of those countries.
Hopefully in out hospitals, we have more advanced technology for handling the decontamination of the suits than the Africans have.
Great gooogly-moogly....
I explained that WEEKS AGO right here on FR.
ANY SAFETY MANAGER KNOWS THE DOFFING OF GEAR IS A HAZARDOUS PROCEDURE!
[ Evidently, getting out of the suit without getting contaminated is the “trick” and the riskiest part of treating Ebola patients, if you have on one of these suits. Saw this on a link somewhere ..... can’t remember exactly where. ]
Add to that the suits give them a false sense of security....
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