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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.

All the more reason to bring Ebola patients here for treatment, right, right???

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The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*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...

[Darksheare]

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.

[Crazieman]

I don’t believe you. The Ebola experts on FR tell me that is impossible.

[Qiviut]

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.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Lesson # 1 When a hazmat suit gets dirty you cannot turn it inside out and wear it again.

[peteyd]

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.

[peteyd]

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.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Wage Slave]

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.

[BuffaloJack]

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?

[FR_addict]

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.

[mrsmel]

What the hey, the government deliberately made allowances for more AIDS carriers to come in, not to mention not requiring the illegal aliens (you know, the ones more likely to be carrying some disease or parasite) to have proof of vaccination when coming into the fedgov schools with your children. If Hussein doesn't get us one way, he's gonna get us another. Don't worry, he's got this covered /s

[nuconvert]

ummm....health workers know that they have to remove their gloves without contaminating themselves. Why wouldn’t they know that they have to use the same caution when removing the suit?

[thefactor]

What immediately came to my mind when I saw the pic in the story:

[Veto!]

XLNT report on Ebola on Frontline (PBS) last night. Half an hour in the bush and at bush hospitals with Doctors without Borders….those guys are amazing. Saving some lives tho they have little to work with. The other half of the program was devoted to Boko Harum, and the equally savage Nigerian forces who are supposedly after them. Ghastly country, miserable people, vicious soldiers, both official Nigerian and Boko Harum…vicious.

Feeling very lucky to be living in America.

[KarlInOhio]

Back when I was in college I had a friend who participated in chemical warfare decontamination tests. The participants had to put on the full chemical warfare suit, get sprayed with some ultraviolet fluorescent chemical (maybe oil of wintergreen), go through decontamination procedures and then strip off the gear. Afterwards they were examined under UV light to see if they "survived". They often didn't. Now imagine dealing with something that can kill you with even less contamination than nerve gas.

[exDemMom]

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.

That's why it is SOP to decontaminate the suits with bleach or another disinfectant before removing the suits.