Official Ebola update thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm, I guess she either said it as a joke, or because she knew it was a great way to get top quality medical attention. Or she is mentally unstable.

That's my guess. Why make something like that up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ebola virus no match for US health care

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/17/ebola-hospital-cdc-expert-voices/17377223/

Ebola is Rollin's life. A top expert for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rollin has studied the pathogen for nearly three decades and has combated it in the remotest corners of the globe. He recently returned from a two-month stint on the front lines of the Ebola fight in Liberia and Guinea.

Rollin is in Dallas reviewing the Ebola response at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, where nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson recently contracted the virus while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian and the first person to die from Ebola in the USA.

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His time at the hospital has taught him a few things about Ebola in America: A) Hospital staffers need to be better trained to combat the virus, and B) Ebola doesn't stand a chance against the medical infrastructure of U.S. cities.

What happened at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital was the result of high-level gear and competent staff facing an unknown virus for the first time – not an irreversible collapse of competency, he said.

Really interesting article. Thanks for posting.

[Anonymous]

How many people are they tracing now? On airplanes, cruise ships, etc. who is paying for all this. This all started with one person, Mr. Duncan. He should have not been let in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many people are they tracing now? On airplanes, cruise ships, etc. who is paying for all this. This all started with one person, Mr. Duncan. He should have not been let in the country.

This is the sort of thing the CDC does. Right now though, they've got 200 of their top people in West Africa, so they're a bit understaffed.

[Anonymous]

Interesting article:

http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-liberal/2014/10/ebola-im-a-hazmat-trained-hospital-worker-heres-what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-ebola-2492638.html

[Anonymous]

WHO declared Senegal Ebola free. How did they do it? Travel bans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ebola virus no match for US health care

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/17/ebola-hospital-cdc-expert-voices/17377223/

Ebola is Rollin's life. A top expert for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rollin has studied the pathogen for nearly three decades and has combated it in the remotest corners of the globe. He recently returned from a two-month stint on the front lines of the Ebola fight in Liberia and Guinea.

Rollin is in Dallas reviewing the Ebola response at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, where nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson recently contracted the virus while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian and the first person to die from Ebola in the USA.

...

His time at the hospital has taught him a few things about Ebola in America: A) Hospital staffers need to be better trained to combat the virus, and B) Ebola doesn't stand a chance against the medical infrastructure of U.S. cities.

What happened at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital was the result of high-level gear and competent staff facing an unknown virus for the first time – not an irreversible collapse of competency, he said.

Good to hear - I felt the same way, ie that tbe hospital was floundering not due to incompetence but due to it hosting patient 0

Dis y'all know they have a UV sterilizing robot? I want one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ebola virus no match for US health care

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/17/ebola-hospital-cdc-expert-voices/17377223/

Ebola is Rollin's life. A top expert for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rollin has studied the pathogen for nearly three decades and has combated it in the remotest corners of the globe. He recently returned from a two-month stint on the front lines of the Ebola fight in Liberia and Guinea.

Rollin is in Dallas reviewing the Ebola response at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, where nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson recently contracted the virus while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian and the first person to die from Ebola in the USA.

...

His time at the hospital has taught him a few things about Ebola in America: A) Hospital staffers need to be better trained to combat the virus, and B) Ebola doesn't stand a chance against the medical infrastructure of U.S. cities.

What happened at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital was the result of high-level gear and competent staff facing an unknown virus for the first time – not an irreversible collapse of competency, he said.

Good to hear - I felt the same way, ie that tbe hospital was floundering not due to incompetence but due to it hosting patient 0

Dis y'all know they have a UV sterilizing robot? I want one

Little Moe! Seems to be working, only cost $100k.

[Anonymous]

For a sense of the resources required to raise the tempo, consider that the 70-bed facility in Bong cost $170,000 to build. It needs a staff of 165 to treat patients and handle tasks like waste management and body disposal. It is likely to go through nearly 100 sets of overalls, gowns, sheets and hoods per day. The monthly cost of running the unit comes out at around $1m, which is about $15,000 a bed. The WHO puts the costs of a 50-bed facility at about $900,000 a month. These figures suggest that a 100,000-bed operation would cost in the region of $1 billion-$2 billion a month.

Various countries have promised substantial aid, but not yet on that scale. America has pledged $350m and set aside another $1 billion to fund the activities of its soldiers in the area. Britain has committed $200m. The World Bank has set up a $400m financing scheme; the first $105m reached the governments of the affected countries in just nine days. The UN, of which the WHO is part, has taken in about a third of the $1 billion it says it needs to fund its own efforts in the region; all told, though, Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary-general, sees a need for much more than that—“a 20-fold surge” in assistance.



This is concerning, but we have no choice but to step up to the plate and fund, fund, fund.

[Anonymous]

How does the CDC know that the Nigerian man who died on the plane to JFK after vomiting in his seat did not have Ebola? Did they take his body?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does the CDC know that the Nigerian man who died on the plane to JFK after vomiting in his seat did not have Ebola? Did they take his body?

He was an American, not Nigerian. He had a heart attack.

Honestly, I don't understand why people would think he could be just fine and then killed by ebola in a few hours. People who are that sick with ebola should be easy to spot. They usually die of shock.

[Anonymous]

Well last night on CNN Dr. Gupta said that Ebola effects different people differently. Sorry that someone coming from Africa vomiting on a plane is scary at this point.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Well last night on CNN Dr. Gupta said that Ebola effects different people differently. Sorry that someone coming from Africa vomiting on a plane is scary at this point.

There have been very few cases of ebola in Nigeria and none in over a month. Remember that Africa is a continent. Not every country in Africa is the same. A Nigerian vomiting should be less of a concern to you than a Texan vomiting.

[Anonymous]

Obviously never worked in Africa if you think these countries are telling the truth about their number of cases. No Ebola in Nigeria? Ridiculous.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously never worked in Africa if you think these countries are telling the truth about their number of cases. No Ebola in Nigeria? Ridiculous.

Actually, I have worked in Africa. It is not just the government claiming that Nigeria is ebola-free. Check out this article:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29654002

But, even if there are a few cases, it is obviously not rampant to the point that you need to panic because a Nigerian vomits.