| Author | Message | ||
     Blake |
Dallas Ebola case #2 Nurse in Dallas fighting Ebola... http://news.yahoo.com/doctor-gives-blood-ebola-inf ected-dallas-nurse-050231595.html | ||
| Crusty |
I guess this would be a good time to re-read Stephen King's The Stand | ||
| Oldog |
>> Dallas Ebola case #2 Nurse in Dallas fighting Ebola... << Sadly the innocent will suffer and the decision makers will not.... | ||
| Aesquire |
NY Senator Schumer, who does a great job getting money but is an enemy of civil rights blamed the nurse. Don't remember him being a medical expert except his vote on obamacare. | ||
| Hootowl |
He looks down his nose through his glasses. Doesn't that make him a doctor? Interesting fact: In high school, he was voted most likely to give a press conference. | ||
| Macbuell |
It was probably the nurse's fault but from what I read, the process of taking the protective gear off and not touching anything that might have been contaminated is very difficult. There have been a number of experienced doctors and nurses who have been fighting this in Africa that have gotten sick too. | ||
| Macbuell |
So how surprised should we be that a nurse in Dallas that is not experienced with this kind of infectious disease gets sick? And I really don't think this would be different in most hospitals around the country except for ones that specialize in these kinds of diseases and this kind of care. | ||
| Sifo |
So how surprised should we be that a nurse in Dallas that is not experienced with this kind of infectious disease gets sick? Exactly. That's why this matters... http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/do-mat h.html If we only have 24 beds across 4 hospitals in the US that can handle a disease like this properly, we have a real problem as soon as we have a minor outbreak. Having said that, I really hope this is contained right now. It looks like it may be. It seems reasonable that it will eventually find it's way into our population though. When that happens, it may get scary. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Just jumping in the middle of this one, so maybe this has been discussed prior, but my question is how in the world does the nurse get Ebola if she was suited up while treating the now deceased man? The few articles that I have read had said is not an airborne disease. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/ Also, there was report of a sheriff deputy who might have been infected after serving papers at the dead man's home. Why would he be in jeopardy if this isn't an airborne disease? Either there is alot more fluids being shared than I care to think about or this disease is getting spread differently than fluid-only transmission. | ||
| Sifo |
The nurse could have been infected by simply not paying attention when taking off the protective gear. Or it could have been as simple as wiping her face with an infected glove, something most of us do dozens of times per day without any thought. I think the sheriff may have been a case of just being overly cautious with what would have been an extremely unlikely transmission of the virus. Given the severity of this disease, I would agree with being overly cautious. I'm not sure that this gets carried through in other areas though, such as controlling people crossing our borders, both legal and illegal. | ||
| Court |
When a "community organizer" . . with a sealed transcript . . tells you "if can't possibly reach our shores". . . . ask more questions.  | ||
| Etennuly |
Money will be the best carrier. Who doesn't want some cash? Your local care giver that does not know they are carrying  the disease, goes to lunch, passing off a ten dollar bill. It is given back to the next customer for change. The food worker has the so carefully worn gloves on that exchange, just infected all of the money in the ten dollar compartment of the register. Next customer gets a ten. Visa Cards go through the same pair of gloves. A days full of customers at risk, then the money spreads to other businesses, other places, distant visitors go home with their change, they stop along the way spending more money. So you see how money can become the root of evil. You probably ought to send all of your money to me to be safe, I will hold it in your name until it is properly disinfected. I'll send back what I can.....after expenses and taxes of course. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
No reports on what she thinks may have caused the infection? | ||
| Fresnobuell |
I found this: "Frieden has said a breach of protocol led to the nurse's infection, but officials are not sure what went wrong. Pham has not been able to point to any specific breach. Among the things the CDC will investigate is how the workers took off protective gear, because removing it incorrectly can lead to contamination. Investigators will also look at dialysis and intubation — the insertion of a breathing tube in a patient's airway. Both procedures have the potential to spread the virus." | ||
| Hootowl |
How about decon showers before removing protective garments? Is that SOP? It was for every NBC drill I've ever taken part in. A little bleach goes a long way. | ||
| Oldog |
Well a story just popped up that says that the Nurse's Boyfriend is infected. The innocent suffer because of the actions of those who are to face no consequence. | ||
| Court |
Poor time to not have a Surgeon General, eh? Shame that the youngster foisted up for the position by the administration has, as his greatest resume' qualification, head of Physicians for Obama. Not even Harry Reid can scrape together enough Democrats to stop laughing at this and vote for the guy.
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| Alfau |
When the going gets tough the tough get going. Educate yourself instead of whining and blaming everyone but the real cause. Outbreak control requires a coordinated series of medical services, along with a certain level of community engagement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease | ||
| Xdigitalx |
What about that reporter Snyderman? After 3 or so days of being under quarantine, she and 2 of her crew go get some takeout? WTF is up with that?!?! OH she has no symptoms...it's ok... she is a doctor(?)... so... what happens when she gets it on the 21th day??? And little trip ends up giving it to some other innocent folks on the street or at that restaurant? Well... I hope not but if it happens, it should not fall by the wayside. Would it be Manslaughter? | ||
| Garryb |
http://christwire.org/2014/08/obama-is-infecting-c hristians-with-ebola-to-destroy-jesus-and-start-a- new-age-of-liberal-darkness/ | ||
| Court |
Garry. . nice try . . but Obama couldn't plan and pull anything off without screwing it up . . . .I'm enjoying listening to his staff dodge today . . . . first time anyone in The White House has refused to release how much they spent on campaign travel . . which of course is illegal under The Hatch Act . . . so he's going on "official" trips to all these , 4 in one day last week, $35,000 a plate fund raisers. I am enjoying watching him hate billionaires in their own houses while they, and their friends, listen to him grovel to finance his chicanery. | ||
| Alfau |
Tell your Billionaires and their friends to donate to disease control foundation lest they die of ebola. } | ||
| Court |
Suppose that's what he's telling all his billionaire friends at these various partys? Could be . . . 2 of them have come through in the past week. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/zuckerber g-wife-donate-25m-cdc-ebola-26182641 | ||
| Oldog |
When the going gets tough the tough get going. Educate yourself instead of whining and blaming everyone but the real cause. Outbreak control requires a coordinated series of medical services, along with a certain level of community engagement.  On the surface this may sound hard nosed but I think that Alf nailed this.... } | ||
| Blake |
Dallas Ebola case #3 (nurse #2): http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/ap_ab3cd5a9b3 2c450aa5a13e1a4a14c60e One very positive note is that the family of Thomas Eric Duncan (Dallas Ebola case #1), have yet to show signs of infection, or so we are led to believe. Anyone seen any recent reporting on them? | ||
| Blake |
AlfAu, Please tell, what is "the real cause" of the Ebola outbreak in America? | ||
| Froggy |
http://www.partycrashertshirts.com/Ebola-anti-obam a-t-shirt | ||
| Macbuell |
And she flew on a commercial plane the night before testing positive with a 99.5 degree temperate. Maybe not technically a fever but not normal either. And even the CDC is saying she should have not traveled anywhere but especially not on a packed commercial airline. This is really starting to get scary. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
She has a wedding coming up! Stop being so hard on her. Weddings take planning! | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Both the U.S. Army and the old Soviet Union have spent decades studying and or weaponizing various biological agents including Ebola and Marburg. I find it hard to believe there isn't a vaccine or a cure in some vault. Another observation. On one hand, they keep telling us Ebola is hard to catch yet we see healthcare providers becoming sick. They say hospitals aren't equipped to handle Ebola patients safely but hospitals routinely handle other infectious diseases with the same routes of transmission -Hepatitis, HIV and we don't see doctors becoming infected by those diseases. |
