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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He couldn't even communicate by the time he got to Nebraska and his organs had begun to shut down. Nothing scary about it for the wider population.[/quote]

The scary part is the implications of his infection and testing. Salia was not an Ebola clinic doc, he was a hospital surgeon. Somewhere along the line, he treated an Ebola patient but didn't wear PPE. It is possible that Salia didn't know that his patient had the virus.

[i]Although the United Methodist hospital where Salia and Smith work doesn’t treat Ebola, both doctors knew that their patients could be infectious. A woman giving birth, a man complaining of abdominal pain — any of them could be carrying the disease. Salia wore gloves but never the full protective gear used in the country’s Ebola wards.[/i]

His first test was negative but his colleagues seem to be unaware about false negatives. He was symptomatic. But his viral load was not high enough to test positive the first time. It is just bizarre that Sierra Leone physicians did not understand that a negative test does not mean that Ebola cannot be present in low levels but multiplying in the body. Something is very wrong regarding this lack of awareness.

[i]The doctors who tended to him in Freetown appeared to be unaware that an early Ebola test — taken within the first three days of the illness — is often inconclusive. In a country where information about the disease continues to move slowly, it was another potentially tragic mistake.[/i]

He was symptomatic for a long time, but didn't take the second test for many days. Then NIH and Emory couldn't take him for whatever reason, so he ended up spending 3 extra hours en route to Nebraska. The little delays in treatment add up and by then it was too late.

[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-doctors-mistaken-ebola-test-we-were-celebrating--then-everything-fell-apart/2014/11/16/946a84da-6dd5-11e4-a2c2-478179fd0489_story.html?postshare=6481416230666854[/url]

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