Ebola outbreak.

gudnoyez

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQBHlgjgtaQ

I was walking the dogs listening to Joe Walsh-You Bought It you Name It when the Worry Song came on and I thought about this here thread and all of you who worry. Enjoy this little diddy the guitar solo is so Joe Walshey . If you got it from me or if I got it from you!!!

gudnoyez

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/joewalsh/theworrysong.html

The lyrics for those who worry about the sound of the vinyl rip of the you tube video or for those of you who might have a layover at the Dallas airport in route to Chicago

jtgranby

tonyb wrote: »

Dennis Gardner wrote: »

Duncan dies and 3 deputies that served the quarantine notice to the apartment are hospitalized. Emotional response? Maybe, but if they are infected, we are in real trouble as I doubt they rolled around in fluids days after he left the place.

True....which lends itself also to their definition of "airborne". If any one of those officers come back positive, the implications of how this spreads will be devastating. Imagine all the things/people a police officer comes into contact with. Then what....quarantine a whole police department ? Trace back everyone they had contact with ? This is how diseases spread and how important it is to not allow a killer like this one here in the first place.

Heard a lady on the radio yesterday from Dallas, talking about how her kids have to get vaccinated to attend school. Yet the illegals they bused in don't have to see a doctor or get shots in order to start school. Nobody with half a brain see's a problem with that ?

Even Jesse Jackson is down in Texas now for the usual reasons. Political ? You betcha, like I always say....politics is injected into everything these days.

I am not going to get in a pissing contest but this virus has been around for at least 30 years. It is not airborne and patients are only contagious when they have symptoms. We are not a third world country,we have top notch hospitals with infection control measures. The affected countries in Africa have non existent healthcare.

JIm

audiocr381ve

jtgranby wrote: »

tonyb wrote: »

Dennis Gardner wrote: »

Duncan dies and 3 deputies that served the quarantine notice to the apartment are hospitalized. Emotional response? Maybe, but if they are infected, we are in real trouble as I doubt they rolled around in fluids days after he left the place.

True....which lends itself also to their definition of "airborne". If any one of those officers come back positive, the implications of how this spreads will be devastating. Imagine all the things/people a police officer comes into contact with. Then what....quarantine a whole police department ? Trace back everyone they had contact with ? This is how diseases spread and how important it is to not allow a killer like this one here in the first place.

Heard a lady on the radio yesterday from Dallas, talking about how her kids have to get vaccinated to attend school. Yet the illegals they bused in don't have to see a doctor or get shots in order to start school. Nobody with half a brain see's a problem with that ?

Even Jesse Jackson is down in Texas now for the usual reasons. Political ? You betcha, like I always say....politics is injected into everything these days.

I am not going to get in a pissing contest but this virus has been around for at least 30 years. It is not airborne and patients are only contagious when they have symptoms. We are not a third world country,we have top notch hospitals with infection control measures. The affected countries in Africa have non existent healthcare.

JIm

I agree for the most part but from I've heard, this isn't the Ebola of old. It's a new strain and it's a different beast now.

tonyb

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I am not going to get in a pissing contest but this virus has been around for at least 30 years. It is not airborne and patients are only contagious when they have symptoms. We are not a third world country,we have top notch hospitals with infection control measures. The affected countries in Africa have non existent healthcare.

JIm [/quote]

Yes we do have top notch hospitals....full of people that make normal human errors. When it comes to deadly diseases, you always err on the side of extreme caution taking every measure to insure the safety of the general public. Every measure.....not some.

Can you honestly say we have taken every measure, done all we can ? The only reason Ebola is here is because we allowed it to come, same with other viruses coming across the south.

Contain and control is the most important part, which we have to do in Africa. Is all being done on that front ? Why contain and control after it comes here ? do it over there. If your allowing travel from infected countries, then you are NOT containing or controlling by the very definition of the words.

[Deleted User]

Hello,
Let's hope this proves effective:

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/10/09/baltimore-doctor-among-those-administering-first-trials-of-ebola-vaccine/

Ken

tonyb

Any vaccine gives people hope. Notice though, the trials are in Mali, not here. That's reassuring at least.

BlueFox

Two points. First, a vaccine is not a cure. It helps to prevent catching it. Second, lets's keep our fingers crossed, but so far no one else with exposure to Duncan is showing symptoms with 9 days left in the exposure window.

tonyb

Well, that's out the window Fox, as today a HC worker taking care of Duncan has tested positive.

On another front, a doctor taking care of Ebola patients re-enters the U.S. at Miami with no questions asked, no tests. But....they have it under control. Just because you say you do doesn't make it so.

Msabot1

Like I have said before...this is just the beginning.....

WilliamM2

So many months after the outbreak, there is one Ebola transmission that actually occurred in the US.

Yeah, it's totally out of control. We are all doomed...more later from Fox news.

Mikey081057

All because we can't (won't) handle testing or not allowing 150 people a day from entering the US... Tempting fate is very risky...

BlueFox

Even a coo coo clock is right twice a day. So close, and now another. I wonder if the 21 day limit is too short?

tonyb

3 weeks has been established as the norm, not the extreme ends. It can take up to 7 weeks in some cases.

William,
You miss the point as usual. It's not so much a numbers game, it's that this person had been protected by the appropriate suit. So either the suit failed, human error was involved, or this virus is assuming an airborne role not previously thought to happen.

If the suit failed, then obviously all others are also at risk. If human error, then that needs to be explored to see exactly where. If airborne, that's another can of worms.

The Enterovirus on another note, has killed 6 kids already with no apparent vaccine or cure, yet we hear zip in the MSM.

This is all our own doing.....consequences of our own actions, or inactions depending on how you look at it.

voltz

George R. Stewart's book "The Earth Abides"

call it science fiction but we playing with fire we play with stuff in labs, or fail to try and contain what we knows is killing others, we drop the ball not going over there and dealing with this using 100% effort to help. every single incumbent needs to be removed from office and we start all over because they have failed us like no other generation before.

tonyb

We are dealing with it "over there"....it's just that isn't enough. You also have to protect the homeland from other ways of entry. Make sense ? Does to me and many others.

Mikey081057

so from what I understand about the latest case is:

She cared for Ted Duncan and used all protective gear correctly. The CDC guy says well she must have made a mistake somewhere... they don't know what that mistake was, but that's their story...

Time to stop the BS and quarantine everyone who has been even casually exposed and stop anyone from leaving any of the infected nations from even going to an airport....

All of the information coming out of the govt. is politically slanted gambling with the safety of the American people running up to an election. We have seen this bad movie before...

Show that you can reduce/eliminate the number of cases occurring and then review the measures.

Dennis Gardner

I hope she was treating him as "Dude with a fever" prior to fully suiting up once he became "Patient Zero". If fully suited infections are this problematic, I don't want to work around it.

Dennis Gardner

I love how the CDC had a news conference immediately to state how there was a "Break in Protocol" to cover their butts and let everyone know that it was her fault and her fault alone. They also refuse to comment on that "Break".

Mikey081057

They waited to release the information so they could whittle up a story... The real answer is they are not sure but need to make up a story that downplays actual fact that they don't know. This CDC guy needs to be fired and and a no BS person needs to put in charge. There should be no input from politicians on the correct course of action. They are only interested in the short term optics.

Dennis Gardner

I would prefer, "We don't know, and we may never know" or "It is too early to be certain" than " We are certain there was a break in protocol".

This was simply to place blame......

Mikey081057

Dennis Gardner wrote: »

I would prefer, "We don't know, and we may never know" or "It is too early to be certain" than " We are certain there was a break in protocol".

This was simply to place blame......

I would prefer the truth...

Toolfan66

The fate of all mankind
Is in the hands of fools...

sucks2beme

Toolfan66 wrote: »

The fate of all mankind
Is in the hands of fools...

And that would be different how?

Mikey081057

Here is what we have learned so far. 2 victims are now tested positive in Dallas. They acquired it from Thomas Duncan of whom we were told was isolated and no threat to infect others in the hospital where he was being cared for. The people he was in contact with while he was with symptoms are still being monitored and to date no one from that group has become infected.

The CDC is led by incompetent people. Frieden (see Baghdad Bob) should be fired for lying to the American people for whom he serves. His arrogance prevents him from asking himself the question of "but what if I am wrong?" Where a week ago or so they were arrogantly chest thumping that none of this could happen.. they are now saying that this could get worse and we are doing everything possible.... This should serve as a case study of the consequences of letting people from academia run our government.

Healthcare workers are eventually going to make a mistake(s). Unfortunately mistakes in dealing with ebola can lead to an outbreak. They haven't been able to rid hospitals and care facilities of Hospital Acquired Infections like staph and every patient that goes in to one is at risk. What makes anyone think they can do a better job with ebola?

In the mean time... one political party to be held nameless has decided "hey it's election season... lets blame it on budget cuts". Whereas this might be a good argument if it were true except for the fact that there are no budget "cuts" at the CDC and NIH, their budgets have steadily increased (multiplied) over the last 10 years. The cuts that they site are cuts in discretionary spending which is money that gets budgeted for bottled water and such. But "there they go again"....

CoolJazz

So William, were you a passage on Frontier Flight 1143 Monday? Or was any of your family?

CJ

codyc1ark

CoolJazz wrote: »

So William, were you a passage on Frontier Flight 1143 Monday? Or was any of your family?

CJ

Very weak attempt, go back under the bridge until you think of something clever to say.

fossy

prolly a cure for cancer is about to be announced so we need a diff disease to focus on ... according to the media...

CoolJazz

codyc1ark wrote: »

Very weak attempt, go back under the bridge until you think of something clever to say.

Perhaps you didn't catch the intention. It's easy to be cavalier and flippant when you think something is far away and you're too healthy to worry any personal effect. Clearly thinking small...or is that small thinking?

The past 24 hours has revealed a 2nd infection, a hospital not prepared to deal with the situation at all, an admitted fever while flying on a commercial flight, admission of lacking oversite from the federal agency that should be in charge, a gag order on employees involved and risking their lives...and then an entire government full of unqualified people playing politics instead of protecting what their first order of business is supposed to be. What will the next 24 hours bring?

CJ

fossy

death