BBMThere's no reason why people flying into the US from Africa can't be screened for elevated temperatures. In some countries when Avian flu was a risk, there were heat sensors which each passenger passed through to ensure they were not actively infected with Avian flu.
Ebola would be detected as fever is the first sign of the illness.
Other people with fevers would also be scrutinized, but the case here in TX could have likely been detected if we had body temperature screening for people coming from areas of active infection.
Yes, all US hospitals with up to date infection control measures should be able to safely care for a few Ebola- infected persons. I say " a few" because with something as deadly as Ebola, the nurses taking care of the Ebola- positive patient should not have any other assigned patients to prevent accidental cross- contamination, which does not occur in a " perfect world" but does occur in practice because humans aren't perfect.
Negative- pressure isolation is said to not be needed for Ebola treatment as it is not a respiratory- borne illness. Direct contact with secretions ( blood or other bodily fluids) is required for transmission according to the CDC conference here in TX today.
The man, who was visiting relatives in the United States, was not ill during the flight, health officials said at a news conference Tuesday evening. Indeed, he was screened before he boarded the flight and had no fever. Because Ebola is not contagious until symptoms develop, there is “zero chance” that the patient infected anyone else on the flight, said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the disease centers. Ebola is spread only by direct contact with body fluids from someone who is ill.
The issue is the relatively long incubation period...you contract it and don't present with symptoms right away typically.
The issue is the relatively long incubation period...you contract it and don't present with symptoms right away typically.
There are only four units in the country capable of isolating Ebola patients (as we were told when Dr. Branly was flown over here).
I don't believe Dallas is one of them.
There are four places in the United States set up to handle a patient sickened by the Ebola virus, and Missoula is one of those.
The three rooms are qualified to handle Level 4 safety concerns.
Level 1 has protection against things generally not dangerous to healthy people, like brewer's yeast.
Level 2 is the safety margin of the standard hospital microbiology lab, where clinicians test for routine diseases like chicken pox or staph infections.
Level 3 spaces can handle infectious diseases spread by air, like influenza, bubonic plague or yellow fever — that have known cures.
Level 4 units are for exotic agents that may or may not have cures available, or appear in highly concentrated or modified forms from a research institution.
The other U.S. sites cleared for Ebola treatment are in Bethesda, Maryland; Atlanta; and Omaha, Nebraska
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings confirmed an EMS crew and ambulance that was used to transport a patient now confirmed to have the Ebola virus in Dallas has been isolated.
This is the most outrageous thing I have heard in a long time. I knew when they first started talking about Ebola being so bad in Africa then sending people here to be treated that it wouldn't be long before it was on American soil. This is very scary stuff. I don't mean to set off a panic, but come on......how are they going to contain it now???? How many people was this man in contact with...the flight, the ER, going home, then to the ER again. This can become widespread very quickly. Dallas is a place that people come in and out of a lot. Next we will see a case in another region.
The CDC has failed us . This. Government has failed us . Why in the world are we allowing anyone come into the United States from, Liberia or anywhere with a outbreak of Ebola? Why?
They can't protect the White House and they cannot protect us from Ebola now . I fear this is just the beginning of the end.
Yes but they're saying that if you don't have symptoms you're not spreading it. Or am I missing something else? (totally possible. I have been sick and I'm sleep deprived).
This is the most outrageous thing I have heard in a long time. I knew when they first started talking about Ebola being so bad in Africa then sending people here to be treated that it wouldn't be long before it was on American soil.
Not only that, this patient showed up for treatment after showing symptoms and instead of isolating him, he was send home. For two more days. Doctors here can't even recognize Ebola despite all the warnings.