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    Quote Originally Posted by PolWatch View Post
    How much interest in was generated because of the publicity? I suspect knowing it was getting a lot of attention influenced the interest in developing the protocols. No hospital wanted bad publicity by admitting they had no protocols.
    Yeah, but that hospital in Texas where that first person died when they were discharged from the ER with basically a "take two aspirin and call me in the morning" diagnosis was thrust into the media spotlight because of the magnitude of the issue.
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    oops - sorry.

    Please merge threads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    Ebola and the Malaysian Air plane crash. CNN was the worst .. election, then silence.
    That was CNN's turn-around strategy - ebola and plane crashes (one crash actually).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    That was CNN's turn-around strategy - ebola and plane crashes (one crash actually).
    Americans favored quarantining Wolf Blitzer.

    http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...g-wolf-blitzer

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    The canary in the coal mine

    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    I think the ebola thing and the election simply paralleled. Based on the coverage that I paid attention to (which wasn't the Faux RushBeck fear mongering hysteria), there was a lot going on with hospital protocols (I saw that at ground zero too at my hospital) and the like. Hospital's don't jump through protocol hoops during election periods.
    Yah, the problem being that there should already have been protocols in place for handling highly infectious patients, viral, bacteriological, what-have-you. The big urban hospitals are supposed to be the main line of defense in case of a biological or chemical attack on the US - but as we saw, some of them weren't ready, & apparently had no idea what to do to prepare or cope with a threat novel in its details but very similar to the biological agents we knew the USSR & others had developed over the years.

    Very bad marks for the Presbyterian hospital in Dallas-Ft. Worth area (where the Nigerian fatality was, & subsequent infections of nurses), & I believe their chain nationally is still feeling the effects. As the Ebola PR crisis in the US melts under direct sunlight, there should be a very intense, quiet effort to bring CDC/military protocols for chemical/biological/nuclear attacks up to speed in all the bigger urban hospitals.

    & we should look @ siting additional healthcare facilities away from major urban areas - if there ever is a real chem/bio/nuke attack on the US, the large urban areas are natural targets - it's where the majority of our healthcare centers & personnel are located. Terrible planning, from a threat-abatement POV.

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    *update*

    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebo...atment-n322781


    The American healthcare worker infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is in serious condition

    The person was flown back from West Africa in isolation on a chartered flight, the NIH said in a statement Friday.

    The NIH admitted the patient to its high-level containment facility in Bethesda, Maryland.

    It's the same unit that treated nurse Nina Pham and that kept watch over a doctor and a nurse who were eventually found to have escaped infection.

    "The unit staff is trained in strict infection control practices optimized to prevent spread of potentially transmissible agents such as Ebola.

    NIH is taking every precaution to ensure the safety of our patients, NIH staff, and the public," NIH said in a statement.


    "Out of an abundance of caution, CDC and the State Department are developing contingency plans for returning those Americans with potential exposure."




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    Just In


    U.S. Ebola Patient in Critical Condition

    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebo...dition-n324366


    An American being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington, D.C. is now in critical condition, the NIH said Monday.

    It's bad news for the health care worker who was infected in Sierra Leone while trying to help fight the West African epidemic, which has sickened more than 24,000 people and killed more than 10,000 of them in a year.

    "NIH physicians have changed the status of the patient with Ebola virus disease being treated at the NIH Clinical Center from serious to critical condition.

    No additional details about the patient are being shared at this time," NIH said in a statement.

    The patient works for Partners in Health, a group that has 2,000 employees in West Africa, including 100 expatriates.


    The group says 10 other clinicians who worked to help the Ebola-infected patient are being evacuated to the United States for observation because they may have been exposed to the virus.

    One has been taken to the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska's medical center after developing symptoms.

    "At this point, this person has not tested positive for the Ebola virus," said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the unit.
    "However, because of a change in symptoms, we decided the most prudent course of action was to bring the individual to the Biocontainment Unit, where we can better monitor symptoms and safely perform testing.

    However, some of the symptoms which prompted the move to the Biocontainment Unit have resolved this morning."

    They others will all self-quarantine outside of three special isolation units where Ebola patients have been treated: at the NIH, Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and the Nebraska Medical Center.

    They can be speedily treated if they begin to show symptoms.

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    First steps

    Argh. I'm surprised that we - the US NIH/CDC - aren't asking for volunteers among those previously infected with Ebola to donate some plasma. I'm further surprised that we're not incubating a supply of plasma, with the antibodies (?) - whatever the viral equivalent is - against Ebola.

    & that we don't - apparently - have a supply of the various anti-Ebola meds that may have helped those infected before who cleared the symptoms. Isn't that a logical progression?

    We don't have anything to give front-line troops/doctors/health workers who would be the first line of defense if the stuff falls into the pot? That failure seems very shortsighted to me.

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