Ebola spreading in West Africa: What you need to know

[moreluck]

Bringing ebola infected people to the US...............medical missionaries know what they face when they go to these places. Protocols are in place, but where humans are involved, mistakes happen.
Good luck Atlanta !!

 

[wkmac]

Bringing ebola infected people to the US...............medical missionaries know what they face when they go to these places. Protocols are in place, but where humans are involved, mistakes happen.
Good luck Atlanta !!

After reading the CDC documents on Ebola, like the linked document in my first post, and doing other research like considering the points made by this man, we folks in Atlanta have far more things to be concerned about than Ebola.

I'm just waiting on the Obama angle in all of this. I know it's coming.

 

[moreluck]

Non essential travel prohibited to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

 

[moreluck]

These things spread like wildfire.........books have been written that scare the beejezus out of us......thanks, Robin Cook !!

 

[oldngray]

As Ebola Fear Increases, Here's A Map Of America's Quarantine Stations

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebola-fear-increases-heres-map-153900672.html

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Most of the time the hysteria is much worse than the disease itself.


Resident know-it-all.

 

[moreluck]

90% FATAL.........that's enough to worry me !!!!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Most of the time the hysteria is much worse than the disease itself.


Resident know-it-all.

Flesh eating disease, Is nor serious?

 

[oldngray]

Flesh eating disease, Is nor serious?

Not flesh eating. Hemorrhagic fever.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Not flesh eating. Hemorrhagic fever.

Thanx, close enough!

 

[moreluck]

What about that germ that's in some canals, goes in your nose and kills you by infecting your brain?

 

[bleedinbrown58]

What about that germ that's in some canals, goes in your nose and kills you by infecting your brain?

Eek....thats sounds....like an episode of House.

 

[oldngray]

What about that germ that's in some canals, goes in your nose and kills you by infecting your brain?

brain eating amoeba?
http://www.webmd.com/brain/brain-eating-amoeba

 

[moreluck]

That's the one and there are a lot of canals in Florida.....you'd think the gators would keep people out, but they still go in them.

 

[oldngray]

That's the one and there are a lot of canals in Florida.....you'd think the gators would keep people out, but they still go in them.

Florida also has an outbreak of flesh eating bacteria.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-health-officials-warn-of-deadly-vibrio-bacteria/

 

[wkmac]

OK, now Dr. Kent Brantley is in Atlanta at Emory University Hospital. Video was shown of Dr. Brantley in a protective suit stepping out of the ambulance and with assistance walking under his own power into the hospital. CDC is literally down the street from Emory so I'm sure they will be involved in this process.

Walking in with just the assistance of another to steady him seems like a good sign.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Why the separate flights?


Resident know-it-all.

 

[wkmac]

If you are speaking of the 2nd victim, nothing was said why that is other than she will arrive later in the week.

 

[Babagounj]

Why the separate flights?


Resident know-it-all.

Only one plane is available .
And can only carry one patient at a time .
Plus they have to stop for refueling .

 

[Catatonic]

Why the separate flights?


Resident know-it-all.

The plane only has room for one isolation unit so one patient per trip.