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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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 :-)[/quote]

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