Posted on 10/16/2014 6:17:44 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Special Statement
Yale-New Haven Hospital admitted a patient late Wednesday night for evaluation of Ebola-like symptoms. We have not confirmed or ruled-out any diagnosis at this point. We are working in cooperation with City, State and Federal health officials. There is no further information available at this time.
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#Yale researcher returned to Connecticut from Liberia on Monday — Now in New Haven Hospital with ‘ebola-like’ symptoms #Ebola
So how many people did this researcher come in contact with in the meantime?
I would say no. Think it out from an emotional distance as if it weren't your kids that you want to see, but someone else's. It isn't just the chances of getting the disease, it's the chances of getting caught up in some bizarre government over-reaction or in a panic situation in a crowded airport.
Is it close enough for you to drive there? Or if they don't have a car, do you have the means to lease or buy one for them? Not depending on public transportation could be a nice precaution, again from panic situations as much as from disease.
I am so tempted to contact the HR departments at the two schools I work for, both just around the corner from Yale, and ask them what their Ebola contingency plans are. My guess, they don’t have any.
I could go totally online to teach if I had to. At least I’d save gas and I wouldn’t have to worry about parking.
You then are painting my numbers...your faith in our ability is blind.
Did you know that this disease is easily treated only when it is contracted via droplets..all other contact has only been defeated by personal immunity.
Did you know our ability to aid those that have contracted ebola by heavy droplets is very limited and such treatment availability could never withstand a few case per hospital.
Did you know that once ebola breaches that level the odds rise dramatically that infections begin to occur from more direct contact transmissions.
These type of transmissions have a 90 percent death rate.
Now Alter would you like to rethink your vision that this is a scare or would you like me to go further?
Per twitter a meeting between EOC and feds taking place now and news conference to follow later this am.
Huh? There are zero proven treatments for the disease regardless of how you contract it. There are a few unproven experimental treatments, but the way to stop ebola isn't to treat it, it's to run effective quarantines of people at risk of spreading it while giving patients supportive care -- keeping their fluids and electrolyte levels steady, for example.
Did you know our ability to aid those that have contracted ebola by heavy droplets
I'm not sure what your point is -- if you contract ebola regardless of how you contract it, the mortality rate is pretty darn high. The solution is to not contract ebola.
Now Alter would you like to rethink your vision that this is a scare or would you like me to go further?
Arggh! We're all going to die! Panic! I'm honestly not sure why you think you need to make the case that ebola is a dangerous and deadly disease. I think the entire planet knows it is. The issue is whether or not it's spread can be controlled and stopped -- and the answer to that is of course it can.
:)Did you survive?
Modern culture like slitting the throats of ebola tracing workers?
How about handling and kissing the dead in home burials?
Carting around dying Ebola patients in taxis?
Or did you have some other modern culture in mind.
no u are wrong zmapp and a host of other intensive antibiotics plus blood transfusions and even plasma donations have helped but only when it was a droplet infection.
Hence why to date over 20 people have survived from Europe and USA and why more than likely the reason Duncan did not survive as he most likely contracted it by a method other than droplet.
There have been plenty of studies on transmission that you are not aware of. I suggest before u tell someone not to panic u learn.
The treatments you are describing are all experimental treatments and are not-proven to be effective -- with the exception of antibiotics, which nobody thinks treats ebola itself (although there are often secondary bacterial infections that co-occur with ebola for which antibiotics may be useful).
Twitter #yale is pretty certain this fellow has it. ..one of 3 researchers (from Yale apparently) who went to Liberia to study outbreak.
Yeah...rumors are he was knee deep in symptoms.
$hitface owns this now. He deliberately refused to cancel travel visas for non-medical personnel to and from the affected countries, so he is responsible.
I think he actually feels proud to bring America to it’s knees...
It was actually a leaf spring that flew off of the undercarriage of the bus. Damn near killed me. Shot right thru my windshield.
Geeesh. .
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...
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