Ebola outbreak - general thread #6

[Isabelle]

Dr. Kent Brantly told ABC News today that his blood type is A+, while Duncan's family has said his blood type was B+, making them incompatible for a transfusion of whole blood or plasma.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dr-kent-brantly-donate-blood-thomas-eric-duncan/story?id=26226388

Blood type does not matter for plasma transfusion. Antigens are on the red blood cells which are removed from plasma. Type A can receive plasma from Type B as well as Type O or AB. It doesn't matter.

 

[Gardenlady]

I would personally prefer the CDC know what the left hand is doing from the right hand before they get teeth.

Well, that's sort of a chicken and egg situation isn't it?

 

[CARIIS]

In the same vein, a 90 second chuckle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVC28oemocA


Oye vi

Per CNN the training for some places is on You Tube - did not catch whole story but whatever training they got it was just posted on You Tube what a joke!




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[passionflower]

NURSE KILLER-Ebola
nurse saying on CNN
needs to be protected!
SEVERAL nurses tell of direct care, witness the situation of Duncan's nurses!

 

[Gardenlady]

That's what I thought, and then I read the interview where she said she'd offered to donate but wasn't a match. So... color me confused lol!

EDIT - sorry, thought I quoted the post I was responding to. Here it is:

I'm not sure if she can donate. She was treated for malaria and a person is not allowed to donate for the next 3 years.

Perhaps this is a suggestion not a policy?

 

[Isabelle]

Re the protocols not being enforced: that was what I was saying in my post..............they need to be enforced!

And this is why nurses are going to walk out. Can't blame them at all.

 

[bettybaby00]

It is still unclear how, exactly, Pham and Vinson were infected with Ebola, but Frieden suggested on Wednesday that it occurred during the days after Duncan was admitted to the hospital and before the CDC team arrived. Duncan was placed in isolation at the hospital on Sunday, Sept. 28, and the CDC did not arrive until Tuesday, Sept. 30, the day Duncan was diagnosed. Pham and Vinson both cared for Duncan during these days and had “extensive contact” with Duncan, who was vomiting and had diarrhea, Frieden said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...passenger-plane-a-day-before-being-diagnosed/

bbm

Then how the heck is no one from that apartment not sick??? It doesn't add up IMO

 

[SStarr33]

Blood type does not matter for plasma transfusion. Antigens ore on the red blood cells which are removed from plasma. Type A can receive plasma from Type B as well as Type O or AB. It doesn't matter.

there is an exception to that. I saw someone post it on another site. Was it maybe something about rh?

 

[Gardenlady]

In the same vein, a 90 second chuckle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVC28oemocA

Oye vi

Per CNN the training for some places is on You Tube - did not catch whole story but whatever training they got it was just posted on You Tube what a joke!




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:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[jillybean51]

Biosafety level 2
This level is similar to Biosafety Level 1 and is suitable for work involving agents of moderate potential hazard to personnel and the environment.[7] It includes various bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as C. difficile, most Chlamydiae, hepatitis A, B, and C, orthopoxviruses (other than smallpox), influenza A, Lyme disease, Salmonella, mumps, measles,[8] scrapie, MRSA, and VRSA. BSL-2 differs from BSL-1 in that:

laboratory personnel have specific training in handling pathogenic agents and are directed by scientists with advanced training;
access to the laboratory is limited when work is being conducted;
extreme precautions are taken with contaminated sharp items; and
certain procedures in which infectious aerosols or splashes may be created are conducted in biological safety cabinets or other physical containment equipment.

This is a Level 2 lab ( where I work) and gloves,goggles and lab coats are all that is required.

 

[Elley Mae]

The Ohio Department of Health says Vinson visited family from Oct. 8-13 and flew Monday from Cleveland to Dallas.She was in town to plan her wedding with her mother and fiancee.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...s-2nd-health-care-worker-infected-with-ebola/

 

[SStarr33]

Then how the heck is no one from that apartment not sick??? It doesn't add up IMO

It does if they were staying as far away as they could from him.

 

[Yoda]

A mother and newborn child have been isolated at a specialist hospital in Belgium after showing symptoms of Ebola soon after arriving from disease-hit Sierra Leone.The woman, who was not identified, was rushed by ambulance with a police escort to the Antwerp University Hospital on Tuesday after showing signs of Ebola while giving birth at another hospital nearby.
'She got a fever and so emergency procedures were put in motion. The patient is isolated and transferred to the University Hospital of Antwerp,' Sven Heyndricksx, a spokesman for Belgium's Federal Public Service, told the Antwerp Gazette.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...showing-signs-deadly-virus.html#ixzz3GGSbFX2t
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[Isabelle]

Then how the heck is no one from that apartment not sick??? It doesn't add up IMO

They stayed clear of bodily fluids? They should be checked for pre existing immunity.

 

[WillenFan21]

K I'm going to straight up honest on my thoughts on the latest concerning Nurse 2. I am calling B.S on the 99.9 fever or whatever it was that she had if she is worse than Nurse 1. How can that be? I don't get it. If she is worse and more advanced that wouldn't that mean she was more advanced than she's letting on when she got on the plane or am I wrong? I'm not medical and have no clue Ebola works. Also as far as Nurse 2 goes... IDGAF what temp the fever was she knew that she was around an man who died of Ebola. She should have never got on the plane regardless of what the CDC said she should have taken precaution and she didn't. PERIOD END OF IT.

 

[Isabelle]

The Ohio Department of Health says Vinson visited family from Oct. 8-13 and flew Monday from Cleveland to Dallas.She was in town to plan her wedding with her mother and fiancee.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...s-2nd-health-care-worker-infected-with-ebola/

Aww, so sorry. I hope she recovers.

 

[SStarr33]

Info about blood types:

http://www.redcrossblood.org/SED/Universal-Platelet-Donor

 

[jillybean51]

They stayed clear of bodily fluids? They should be checked for pre existing immunity.

I wAs wondering that as well Isabelle......whether they were previously exposed to Ebola and had antibodies against it.I wonder if that was checked.If so they may be able to provide plasma to patients as well....

 

[alwaysonmymind]

Nurse's heads & necks exposed in gowns. They also didn't have shoe covers. Also treated Duncan for 2 days w/no gear. http://t.co/7IMVquNqEt

 

[SCHMAE]

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