Ebola: First case coming to America

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Mary Katherine Ham:

The largest outbreak in history continues unabated in West Africa. Three Americans have been infected, one of whom was the man who died upon his arrival in Nigerian megacity Lagos last week. Now, Emory University hospital in Atlanta will be taking the transfer of an Ebola patient, reportedly an American aid worker:

Emory University Hospital has been told a patient with the Ebola virus will be transferred to its hospital in Atlanta.

According to the Associated Press, the patient is an American aid worker, although the individual’s identity was not released due to privacy laws.

Emory says it has a special isolation unit to treat patients who are exposed to serious infectious diseases which is physically separate from other patient areas at the hospital.

Emory’s isolation unit is one of only four such units in the country, according to the hospital, which also said its staff are highly trained in the procedures necessary to care for the patient.

CNN reports indicate the patient coming to Atlanta is likely missionary Nancy Whitebol, but her arrival day is unknown. Both she and Dr. Kent Brantly, affiliated with Samaritan’s Purse, are still alive:

While U.S. officials have remained mum on the issue, a source told CNN that a medical charter flight left from Cartersville, Georgia, on Thursday evening.

A CNN crew saw the plane depart shortly after 5 p.m. ET. The plane matched the description provided by the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

It was not immediately known when the two Americans — identified by the source as Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol — would arrive in the United States, or where the plane would land.

At least one of the two will be taken to a hospital at Emory University, near the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, hospital officials told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

The patient will be cared for in an isolation unit at the hospital that is separate from patient areas, Gupta said.

With the return of Brantly and Writebol to the United States, it will be the first time that patients diagnosed with Ebola will be known to be in the country.

Brantly and Writebol are described as being in stable-but-grave conditions, with both reportedly taking a turn for the worse overnight, according to statements released Thursday by the faith-based charity Samaritan’s Purse.

Emphasis mine. Is this something the president is reading about in the papers or is someone—anyone—making sure there’s a protocol for containing this kind of thing that’s a little more rock solid than the one that left smallpox hanging out in a minifridge for 50 years? Sure, the CDC is in Atlanta, but the CDC and the other federal agencies in charge of super-deadly infectious diseases have lost control of several deadly diseases in the past several months. I’m not a big fearmonger when it comes to public health—most of those articles about buttchugging and the cinnamon dare are nonsense—but this is a rather more serious threat and there’s plenty of recent evidence that the federal agencies in charge of such things aren’t great at being in charge of such things. Here’s hoping Emory will play point on this. It sounds as if they will, which sounds safer to me.

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Mary makes an excellent point about the potential for spread of ebola via idiots at CDC.
African cases started when people ate bat meat.
Bat meat!
Then, ebola spreads once a person is showing symptoms……which these two are.
The doctor (I’m not sure about the nurse) caught it while wearing all precautionary covers.
Something happened.
Can something happen again?
Oh, yeah.
More likely than not.

The people at the CDC are not idiots. If it weren’t for the CDC, we would have been in deep trouble before now. What they monitor and respond to across the globe, among other things, are emergent diseases that could become deadly pandemics if missed or ignored. Nobody else protects the entire U.S. population on that level. It’s the only level at which the capability to do so even exists.

Ebola is not an airborne infection. The U.S. healthcare workers who caught it were working in the medical care environment that exists in Africa, not that which exists in the United States. The more the CDC finds out about the virus and the disease it causes as quickly as possible, the better.

@Greg: CDC recently left live viruses in unsecured containers. That does not make them idiots? If not idiots, they are certainly very careless.

There is a 3 week incubation period for ebola when there are no symptoms. With the number of illegals being allowed to cross the border, it would not take a genius to drop infected people off on our border and send them across the border. They would just be like another suicide bomber except they will create more terror. But Greg, your president is setting us up for this type of attack. Tom Clancy wrote about this decades ago.

Gotta get it started here in the US — the latest is that they are starting to test a vaccine — there ya go you idiots — Oh! please save me government!– Oh! please save me!

Step right up folks! – get yurr latest handi-dandi vaccine to save you from ebola — only available from the gubmint health services — IN SPITE OF ALL THE REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION AND OBSTRUCTION — OBAMA The Magnificent created it in his own little lab in the basement of the WH between the 15th and 16th holes of his last golf game withWeepie Johnnie!

The reasons for admitting patients with the disease will be so that Obama can be credited with the cure, but if a mistake is made, there will be blood.

During the 80’s when AIDs was designated a gay disease, there was a simple solution, isolates the patients. Oh the hue and cries were heard all across America. How can you be so cruel to these poor victims, they would never infect another person. Yes, that theory has been tossed out the window.

Now, we are bringing in a much more terrible disease, when we could fly the few people who actually want to confront the disease to Africa with the proper isolation equipment, but someone wants America and the regime to get the credit. If a few million die in the process, no big deal; Stalin said, “If you want to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs.

Good Luck citizens, If I were a terrorist intent on destroying the US, I would bring in a boatload of Africans who had been exposed and release them along the Rio Grande, very effective, minor cost, Obama facilitated border crossing.

Last night there was a false alarm at an airport.
Today there is another maybe case, this time in NY state.
OOPS! make that SIX people!
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/08/04/Patient-in-NYC-Tested-for-Ebola
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta:

“This isn’t the kind of thing that they worry about spreading to other patients in the hospital, spreading to people who are walking around the hospital. This is not an airborne virus. This is something that spreads only when somebody is very sick and they start to actually shed the virus in their bodily fluids.

Yeah, and ”shedding fluids” is so self-contained…..NOT!
Sweat, urine, sneeze-spray, blood spray (out of mouth) these all fall right down to the ground. /sarcasm off.

Dr. Ben Carson explained a simple medical mistake could cause the disease to spread within the borders of the United States because the bodily fluids of an infected patients remain infected for many days.

When questioned whether the fear in the Untied States is a valid, Carson answered, “It is very real. It is a highly contagious disease and all it requires is some infractions in procedures and all of a sudden you have got more spread and that’s what I’m afraid of.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/08/04/Dr-Ben-Carson-Mistake-to-Bring-Ebola-Patients-to-US

OK, who knows any perfect doctors or nurses, attendants or orderlies?
Recall the Muslim medical staff in UK who tried to NOT WASH THEIR HANDS!
Recall the jihad of sneaking filth (baggies filled with feces, urine, blood and snot) into supermarkets and spraying produce with it?
Our media doesn’t tell you everything.
And, BTW, who else noticed that the public not only has no right to know, but they are not even being asked if they are in agreement with this policy?

@Nanny G: You said:

Recall the Muslim medical staff in UK who tried to NOT WASH THEIR HANDS!

And the Muslim staff in UK that carried out the bombing at the Glasgow airport?