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C.D.C. Rethinking Methods to Stop Spread of Ebola
New York Times ^ | October 13, 2014 | By MANNY FERNANDEZ, SABRINA TAVERNISE and RICHARD FAUSSET

Posted on 10/13/2014 7:29:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

DALLAS — The transmission of the Ebola virus to a nurse here forced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday to reconsider its approach to containing the disease, with state and federal officials re-examining whether equipment and procedures were adequate or too loosely followed, and whether more decontamination steps are necessary when health workers leave isolation units.

“We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control, because even a single infection is unacceptable,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C., told reporters.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: amateurhour; cdc; ebola; ebolacontrol; ebolaoutbreak; hazmat; hazmatgear
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To: pepsionice

What is the basis for your concern about the supply of beef and pork?


41 posted on 10/14/2014 6:48:29 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: TheCipher
In the Boston photo, I don't see any oxygen tanks. How are they filtering their air?

Can't see in other picture if HAZMAT workers have an oxygen tank either.

Do they just use surgical masks?

42 posted on 10/14/2014 7:19:16 AM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: Steely Tom; TheCipher

This Boston incident was absurd, and could have been avoided by a simple exercise of authority by a well-informed person.


43 posted on 10/14/2014 7:21:21 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Ebola goes from Human to animal. The minute they admitted that...you can easily see some scenario where one farmer gets it, and it moves across an entire county in a matter of a year or two, from beef herd to beef herd. You’d have to slaughter an entire herd and every cow within five miles to essentially ensure it didn’t go any further. Then you’d wake up a month later to find another farmer or rancher passed it on again.


44 posted on 10/14/2014 7:41:37 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

It will simply become endemic in the wild hog population.


45 posted on 10/14/2014 7:43:37 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

46 posted on 10/14/2014 8:06:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: pepsionice

Okay. Though of course all animals are not the same. I’ve not heard of any Ebola strains affecting cattle, but there’s a lot they don’t know about the disease.


47 posted on 10/14/2014 8:08:53 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rule Number One: We certainly don’t want to hurt anyone’s or any country’s feelings by singling them out as ‘bad’, just because they have Ebola.


48 posted on 10/14/2014 8:11:06 AM PDT by headless_thompson_gunner
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To: SeekAndFind
Can you imagine how hurtful it would be to those who are singled out just because they have Ebola? A travel ban would just be a form of horrific profiling.

Ebola… it's the right thing to do for America.

- Barack Hussein
49 posted on 10/14/2014 8:14:50 AM PDT by headless_thompson_gunner
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So far, it seems as though the ones who are surviving are the ones who are getting blood transfusions from other survivors. I heard the guy in Nebraska is now sitting up, eating, feeling much better, probably going to make it. He got a blood transfusion from the first doctor they brought back to Atlanta who survived. Now Nina Pham has received a transfusion from the same guy who saved the guy in Nebraska, I’ve heard she is in stable condition, really hoping she is going to make it.

Now, me, not being a doctor realizes how important this is, but I worry about our leaders, they might actually be to dumb to spot what a laymen has already spotted. We need to isolate these anti-bodies from survivors (western hopefully to avoid spreading other dangerous diseases) and come up with a cure for Ebola, it sounds like were close, if these transfusions are working then we merely have to teach the immune system to recognize and attack Ebola.

Also, I have now doubt that NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine) would be a key factor in surviving Ebola, it regulates the inflammatory response and helps prevent Cytokine storms and is a very strong anti-viral.

Ebola has now reach the the 70% fatal threshold worldwide, those are very bad odds.

I really hope there are some people with common sense starting to think about using the anti-bodies from Kent Brantly, the original Atlanta survivor as a cure.

Prayers for critical thinkers in the medical community to act quickly, it seems to me there is something here worth taking a look at ...


50 posted on 10/14/2014 8:17:52 AM PDT by JeepRubicon
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To: Black Agnes
It will simply become endemic in the wild hog population.

Agreed. This will be in the US forever, there will have to be a vaccination. However, I suspect that once being exposed and not catching it (you know that is happening, some people's immune systems will snuff it out before it takes hold) or once your survive it you're probably immune or at least would have the immune system training to easily survive a reinfection
51 posted on 10/14/2014 8:17:52 AM PDT by JeepRubicon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Phosphate bombs and chlorine gas.


52 posted on 10/14/2014 8:18:18 AM PDT by jetson (S)
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To: hummingbird
In the Boston photo, I don't see any oxygen tanks. How are they filtering their air?

Can't see in other picture if HAZMAT workers have an oxygen tank either.

Do they just use surgical masks?

In the Boston photo, they are just using surgical masks. You also notice that skin is exposed around the face. In the Dominican Republic photos, it looks like they have a tank on their back, plus the masks look like a pressurized mask that fire departments use.


53 posted on 10/14/2014 8:27:36 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I bet the new protocol will involve government perverts sticking their hands in granny pants at the airport as they check for Obola.


54 posted on 10/14/2014 8:34:17 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can’t believe that not one African has shown immunity to Ebola thus providing a base for a vaccine.


55 posted on 10/14/2014 8:41:04 AM PDT by jetson (S)
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To: JeepRubicon

Mandatory vax in the US, at a conservative $100 per dose will net the provider somewhere north of $30B. Long GSK if that happens.


56 posted on 10/14/2014 8:45:15 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Toespi
.if the nurse became symptomatic Friday, and the BF is sick today, something isn’t right. Like maybe one CAN be contagious before showing symptoms.

It could also be that Ebola is spread by sexual contact while asymptomatic before the fever sets in by both sexes. Also, besides being spread in semen afterwords, it may also be spread in female vaginal fluids weeks after symptoms subside. There is just not enough research right now.

57 posted on 10/14/2014 9:12:32 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: 2banana
How about stopping people from traveling to America from infected countries...

You probably don't want HIV Aids patients to donate blood either you bigot.

</sarcasm>


58 posted on 10/14/2014 11:27:04 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Toespi

You thought of that too, eh?


59 posted on 10/14/2014 7:29:58 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: TheCipher

The PPE’s on the CDC website aren’t that secure.

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ppe-poster.pdf


60 posted on 10/14/2014 8:14:17 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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