Ebola outbreak - general thread #8

[Isabelle]

Hand washing! Seriously. That will cut down on your chances of picking up flu and other viral illness too, costs nothing and is a really, really simple step that everyone can follow. Make sure you teach your children to wash their hands properly too.

For nail biters anfd thumb suckers - now is as good a time as any to kick that habit for good. Might be worth investing in some of that foul tasting stuff to paint on your nails until you have got over the habit and know you wont do it absent mindedly.

Basically, unless you pick up a quantity of virus on your hands and transfer it to your mouth/nose/eyes you are not likely to contract ebola.

So two steps:

1. Avoid touching your face with your hands unless you have just washed them
2. Wash your hands frequently, especially when out and about.

It is highly unlikely that you will pick up Ebola when you are out and about (influenza and common cold are far more likely), but hand washing is simple and will provide additional assurance.

I believe alcoholic hand rub is also supposed to be effective.

Yes, Lyra! Hand washing. The first line of defense against infection. And, if you visit a restaurant/fast food joint that does not have paper towels in bathrooms but have that stupid blower thing to dry hands, don't go back there.

Hand washing procedure, most important if you not in your own home: wet hands, soap and rub vigorously for 15 seconds, rinse hands. Important : if you are at a faucet that needs to be turned on an off with a handle/s, DO NOT touch the handles until you have dried hands with a paper towel and use that paper towel as a barrier to turn off the faucet. DO NOT throw away the paper towel or use a clean one to open the door to exit the room. If you touch any surface after washing hands you will have undone the hand washing. BTW: in public I flush with my foot or elbow.

 

[Isabelle]

No, I am talking about right after we heard about Duncan. The medical record info came out much later.

Oh, I think you are right. The info about the 103 temp didn't come out until it had to.

 

[Isabelle]

Yea !

FOX 4 News
2 mins ·
‪#‎BREAKING‬: Doctors say Nina Pham is Ebola free... she will be released from the hospital later today.

I hope Bentley is released soon too.

 

[trigger]

The news is now reporting that his temperature was 100.3 http://news.yahoo.com/1st-ebola-case-nyc-3others-quarantined-060226282.html

As for the doctor getting out & about...........upon arrival he had no symptoms. Sure, he may have felt a little blah but I'm sure he had been working grueling hours in primitive conditions in West Africa. Add to that jet lag after a long flight & possible hassels involved with a connecting flight. Why on earth would he be feeling on top of the world?

That is what I thought of to, jet lag. Lol. But he is young not like me!

 

[jjenny]

I hope Bentley is released soon too.

Bentley has to go through 21 days of quarantine.

 

[SStarr33]

He is young and he completed his work in Africa on October 12 had some time off in Brussels and got back the 17th. I'm not buying the jet lag thing.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/health/new-york-ebola-timeline/index.html

 

[SStarr33]

Wonder if the fiance can finish his quarantine with Nina

 

[Ladylub]

When exactly is Ebola present in the blood. Lets say someone who did come in contact with Ebola. They then are just a day away from feeling horrible with fever and GI issues. (As we know seems to happen one day feeling good the next sick.) If that person was to get in an accident would Ebola be present in their body fluids or since they did not get the fever etc yet they are still with clear body fluids? This is why I worry about health care workers. This is why I feel it is highly ignorant to go out and about while you are self monitoring. While an alive you knows to keep your bodily fluids to yourself a dying you will not be able to stop it.


A big :happydance: that Nina will be released today. So happy to hear that. These last few here seem to have done so well. Have we seen a break through for helping those with Ebola.

 

[faw720]

He was in direct contact with Ebola patients. I believe if he was working here in US and had direct contact with an Ebola patient, under new rules, he'd have to avoid travel using public transportation. Remember the person on the cruise? The whole cruise had to return because she was on it.
But yet because he worked in Africa he was not subjected to the same rules. That makes no sense to me.

How is someone supposed to get around NYC unless they use public transport?

Maybe I'm crazy but I am just sensitive about ebola patients being blamed for potentially exposing others at a time when they don't even have symptoms. The NYC doctor apparently self-reported to authorities the moment he found that he had temperature.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Uncle praying for Wayne State grad with Ebola in N.Y.

Kim Kozlowski, The Detroit News 11:20 a.m. EDT October 24, 2014

The fourth confirmed Ebola case in the United States is a Michigan native who grew up in Metro Detroit, a relative confirmed Friday.

Dr. Craig Spencer — who graduated from Wayne State School of Medicine and now lives in New York City — grew up in Grosse Pointe Woods, said his uncle, Arnold Spencer.

“He’s my nephew. I love him and I am praying for him,” said Spencer, who declined to elaborate further.

Asked how his nephew was doing, Spencer said he did not know, and he hadn’t seen him in years but is a “wonderful person.”

Craig Spencer, 33, an emergency medicine physician for Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, recently returned from Guinea where he was working for Doctors Without Borders...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...e-praying-wayne-state-grad-ebola-ny/17830775/

 

[faw720]

Hand washing! Seriously. That will cut down on your chances of picking up flu and other viral illness too, costs nothing and is a really, really simple step that everyone can follow. Make sure you teach your children to wash their hands properly too.

For nail biters anfd thumb suckers - now is as good a time as any to kick that habit for good. Might be worth investing in some of that foul tasting stuff to paint on your nails until you have got over the habit and know you wont do it absent mindedly.

Basically, unless you pick up a quantity of virus on your hands and transfer it to your mouth/nose/eyes you are not likely to contract ebola.

So two steps:

1. Avoid touching your face with your hands unless you have just washed them
2. Wash your hands frequently, especially when out and about.

It is highly unlikely that you will pick up Ebola when you are out and about (influenza and common cold are far more likely), but hand washing is simple and will provide additional assurance.

I believe alcoholic hand rub is also supposed to be effective.

I am also a firm believer in hand washing. For years I would have colds 2 or 3 times a year & then I decided to try the hand washing routine. Matter of fact I'm almost paranoid about it. In the past 10 years I've had only 2 colds. One of those times was after a teenager sneezed right in my face without covering his mouth while I was in the grocery store.

 

[jjenny]

When exactly is Ebola present in the blood. Lets say someone who did come in contact with Ebola. They then are just a day away from feeling horrible with fever and GI issues. (As we know seems to happen one day feeling good the next sick.) If that person was to get in an accident would Ebola be present in their body fluids or since they did not get the fever etc yet they are still with clear body fluids? This is why I worry about health care workers. This is why I feel it is highly ignorant to go out and about while you are self monitoring. While an alive you knows to keep your bodily fluids to yourself a dying you will not be able to stop it.


A big :happydance: that Nina will be released today. So happy to hear that. These last few here seem to have done so well. Have we seen a break through for helping those with Ebola.

His test was positive on Thursday. Which means on the first day he supposedly had symptoms he already had Ebola virus present in his blood.

 

[khaki]

His test was positive on Thursday. Which means on the first day he supposedly had symptoms he already had Ebola virus present in his blood.

FWIW....If I remember correctly, the female doctor at the press conference last night said his presumptive test was positive, but they were waiting for official results from blood test done at CDC. But yes, the ebola virus would be in his blood even before he had symptoms....when the viral number increases, that's when the symptoms start to present.

 

[jjenny]

FWIW....If I remember correctly, the female doctor at the press conference last night said his presumptive test was positive, but they were waiting for official results from blood test done at CDC. But yes, the ebola virus would be in his blood even before he had symptoms....when the viral number increases, that's when the symptoms start to present.

They do 2 tests just to be sure.
If he tested positive, that means the virus was already present in detectable levels in his blood on the first day he presented with fever.

 

[khaki]

They do 2 tests just to be sure.
If he tested positive, that means the virus was already present in detectable levels in his blood on the first day he presented with fever.

that would be expected

 

[Ladylub]

Pretty sure Nina talks in this video after leaving hospital. My internet is acting wacky today so it is taking forever to play.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/video/10772...fter-being-released-from-hospital-ebola-free/


ETA after sitting on the phone with my internet company what seemed like forever we finally realized it was (shocker) their fault. Grr anyway yes this video is after Nina was released today. I hope they do not keep her and Bentley away from each other for to much longer. At least let her to hang with her furry kiddo even if she needs to be suited up.

 

[SStarr33]

This is the super scary one. I posted about it yesterday, but it got lost in the Spencer story:

Toddler With Ebola In Mali May Have Infected Many People: WHO

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/24/ebola-mali_n_6043448.html

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Health Organization says a toddler who brought Ebola to Mali was bleeding from her nose during her journey on public transport and may have infected many people.

WHO said it is treating the situation in Mali as an emergency.

 

[nrdsb4]

This is the super scary one. I posted about it yesterday, but it got lost in the Spencer story:

Toddler With Ebola In Mali May Have Infected Many People: WHO

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/24/ebola-mali_n_6043448.html

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Health Organization says a toddler who brought Ebola to Mali was bleeding from her nose during her journey on public transport and may have infected many people.

WHO said it is treating the situation in Mali as an emergency.

I read about this yesterday, I think. The article I read said the child had been exposed to relatives ill with ebola. It makes you wonder if there was an understanding of the implications of traveling with an obviously ill child on the part of the grandmother, whether denial is playing a part, or what. This is why education about this disease is so important.

Here is an article with many more details about this.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/24-october-2014/en/

 

[SStarr33]

ABC News ‏@abcnews 2m2 minutes ago
BREAKING: Mali's first confirmed case of Ebola - a two-year-old girl - has died, a health official says

Her blood had to be loaded with virus

 

[SCHMAE]

More Great News !
WFAA-TV
1 hr ·
NEW: Emory University Hospital says Amber Vinson is clear of Ebola. Her release date is to be determined.
STORY: bit.ly/1oCvkVa