Lost their marbles

[Nomad.2nd]

http://news.msn.com/us/us-aid-worker-infected-with-ebola-to-be-moved-to-atlanta-hospital-official


WHAT could go wrong here!

 

[tim9lives]

http://news.msn.com/us/us-aid-worker-infected-with-ebola-to-be-moved-to-atlanta-hospital-official


WHAT could go wrong here!

Yea...I get what you're saying and am also concerned. But the reality is that with today's globalized world....I think it is just a matter of time before we have an outbreak in the US.

This guy in the below article collapsed in an airport in Nigeria. He was transferring to a US bound airliner. His next stop was Minneapolis.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/29/health/ebola-outbreak-american-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

It is some really bad stuff. And I don't think they really have a clue especially considering that the 2 US aid workers caught the disease while wearing full body suits.

 

[Vermiform]

I don't think we have anything to worry about the ones we are bring back home for treatment. It's the ones that get in that they don't know about that scare me.

 

[rattler]

Damn. Why did they have to put the CDC down the road from my home town? These type of outbreaks are terrifying. Not with a bang folks; with a whimper.

 

[dwr461]

As a paramedic with a major out break I wouldn't stand a chance of not catching it.

Dave

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Luckily Ebola Outbreaks tend to burn themselves out quickly. We also have some built in protections here in the US because of easy access to clean water, institutional procedures for handling the dead and dying, isolation protocols, brick and mortar facilities, and because we don't eat primates or "Bush Meat".

 

[general mills]

^^ that's how I always thought of it, plus we are better nourished and healthy, and able to get better care quickly, I figure giving us a better chance to be in that upper 50-40 percent than your average Nigerian exposed to e-bola.

 

[dwr461]

It is my understanding that this strain is a little different from previous strains with a lower mortality rate and a longer contagious time before being incapacitated.

Dave

 

[Vermiform]

mmmmmmm...........Bush Meat!

 

[bs875]

Ebola is not airborne, you have to touch the bodily fluids of someone that is already infected. I'm sure they know they are being watched and will take extra precautions to make sure the patients are contained.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

It is my understanding that this strain is a little different from previous strains with a lower mortality rate and a longer contagious time before being incapacitated.

Dave

I think that's accurate but its still a disease that's much more likely to explode in the 3rd World than hear in the states.

 

[tim9lives]

Yea...they do keep saying it's not airborne yet I could not understand how two aid workers wearing those bio suits would then catch it.

Then this morning...I saw an interview on CBS News. The doctor was saying a big part of the problem was that the aid workers were working day in and day out in a part of the world where the avg temp is @ 102 degrees. And then they have no A/C....And have to put that hot ass suits on. Plus the suits and equipment had to be reused and reused every day in Africa. They would spray themselves down with some disinfectant.

In the US...we'll probably disinfect and then trash those things after every time they enter the quarantined infectious disease room.

So its probably a case of being a bit sloppy due to the sweating ( body Fluids ) because of the extreme heat when wearing those suits. They probably just got careless and they were working to save these victims all day long. Probably were damned exhausted.

From what she said...since we have such better medical facilities....there will be very little risk associated with the disease. A/C and first class medical facilities plus full safety protocols.

In any case...now I understand how they could have caught the disease while wearing the suits.

 

[Crippler7815]

From what I read, one of the assistants in the scrub down area came to work for two days after being infected, and that was the cause of infection for the two doctors. Direct unprotected contact.

Sorry, here's the source, from the same article.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/29/health/ebola-outbreak-american-dies/index.html?c=&page=3

 

[dwr461]

I think that's accurate but its still a disease that's much more likely to explode in the 3rd World than hear in the states.

Agreed.

Dave