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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/magic-blood-emorys-ebola-plasma-bank-n285996

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Cup by cup, Emory University is collecting bags of liquid gold from the small club of American Ebola survivors.

They're collecting the plasma as part of an experiment to see if transfusing blood from people who have lived through the horrific infection can save the newly ill. Many of the survivors have been given this so-called convalescent plasma, but no one knows if it's actually helping.
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Yoda said:
What a cluster.

"Fast track for Ebola drug has faltered."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/business/fast-track-on-drug-for-ebola-has-faltered.html?_r=0
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Maybe I am too cynical, but now that it has gone back to just Africans dying and the new cases seem to be declining, it feels as if people in charge just don't see the need to try that hard any more.

If there are facilities specially designed to provide speedy production of vaccines and similar to address severe public health emergencies, why aren't they being used? isn't the Ebola outbreak exactly the kind of situation where these facilities should be put to use?

Really sad and means more families and communities will be decimated than necessary.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30967337

UK nurse Pauline Cafferkey has said she is "very happy to be alive", having been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from Ebola.

Speaking to the BBC in her first broadcast interview, Ms Cafferkey, 39, admitted she had felt like "giving up" as her condition became critical

Speaking to BBC health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys, she said: "My first few days I was very well - I just couldn't understand all the fuss."

"Obviously at the back of my mind I had seen what could happen and what could potentially happen to me."

After three or four days Ms Cafferkey said her condition began to deteriorate, with the hospital announcing she had become critically ill on 4 January.

Asked if there was a point she felt she would not make it, Ms Cafferkey said: "There was a point, which I remember clearly. I do remember saying: 'That's it, I've had enough'."

She said she had "no sense of time" in hospital and cannot remember an entire week when the virus took hold.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31072745

This healthcare worker suffered a needle-stick injury whilst treating a patient - this must be every doctor and nurse's worst nightmare.

At least they are in the specialist unit at the Royal Free now where they will get the best possible treatment if they have been inoculated with live virus.
 
Drug promising in early trials:

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/...=maing-grid7|main5|dl13|sec1_lnk3&pLid=618042

Results for the first 69 adults and teens in Guinea were released Monday. Among those who got the drug when virus levels were still low, survival was 85 percent. That seems better than the roughly 70 percent survival for patients treated in the same clinics two months before the study began, researchers said at the Retrovirus Conference in Seattle.
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Note that the survival rate prior to the drug study was already 70 percent, a vast improvement on survival rates before recent events.
 
http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/

"The 26-year-old nurse says she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

Pham received 4 experimental treatments to fight Ebola

She says the hospital and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed her and her colleagues who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola.

“I wanted to believe that they would have my back and take care of me, but they just haven’t risen to the occasion,” Pham told The Dallas Morning News last week in an exclusive interview."
 
Suing everybody is the American way, after all.
 
Well, this isn't really a surprise. I'm sure Amber Vinson will follow her lead. The health system will likely settle with both but will have some kind of nondisclosure clause included in the settlement. That's my guess.
 
jjenny said:
Suing everybody is the American way, after all.
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Well, if I worked for an employer who failed to provide me with the kind of protective gear and support that those caring for Ebola patients need, I'd sue them. Why should those responsible for my potentially fatal illness and suffering get off without a penalty? If someone does you an injury, either of two things can happen: a. They apologize, and do what they can to 'make you whole', or b. You sue them and the courts decide what must be done to make you whole. You'd sue if some one t-boned your car at an intersection, or if your child was misdiagnosed and made sicker by that same hospital, would you not? I've never had to sue anyone, but if I ever need to, I will. Doesn't make me sue-happy, just sensible.

After reading the entire article, I wish to double down on my comments! Nobody even sent her a casserole. They attempted to use her for PR.
 
Morag said:
Well, if I worked for an employer who failed to provide me with the kind of protective gear and support that those caring for Ebola patients need, I'd sue them. Why should those responsible for my potentially fatal illness and suffering get off without a penalty? If someone does you an injury, either of two things can happen: a. They apologize, and do what they can to 'make you whole', or b. You sue them and the courts decide what must be done to make you whole. You'd sue if some one t-boned your car at an intersection, or if your child was misdiagnosed and made sicker by that same hospital, would you not? I've never had to sue anyone, but if I ever need to, I will. Doesn't make me sue-happy, just sensible.

After reading the entire article, I wish to double down on my comments! Nobody even sent her a casserole. They attempted to use her for PR.
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She got an infectious disease from which she recovered. So I guess now I can sue somebody if I get the flu? Or cold? So many avenues for lawsuits.
 
I'm sure we'll hear the other side (from the medical professionals) that we don't often consider as laypeople...but to this layperson, she seems mighty ungrateful that her life was saved. Would she rather they had let her die?
 
She's doing the right thing. Unfortunately, corporations only change their workplace safety practices when the monetary penalty is high.

She will be helping other workers there.
 
oh_gal said:
I'm sure we'll hear the other side (from the medical professionals) that we don't often consider as laypeople...but to this layperson, she seems mighty ungrateful that her life was saved. Would she rather they had let her die?
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Recall from news reports, the hospital provided inadequate safety equipment to the nurses treating the Ebola patient. They sort of patched some equipment together, leaving many areas of their skin exposed. When the nurses complained, they didn't fix the problems.

The hospital was responsible for these women contracting Ebola, it was 100% their fault. It was also 100% preventable.
 
jjenny said:
She got an infectious disease from which she recovered. So I guess now I can sue somebody if I get the flu? Or cold? So many avenues for lawsuits.
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Do you truly equate the flu or a cold with Ebola?
 
Anyone criticizing her for filing suit could not possibly have read the article.
 
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