Ebola round 2

[Hendre]

They have a vaccine that's recently been rolled out..

To be honest a virus isn't always hard to fight, and the immune system can be bolstered to fight them. Just a matter of getting a vaccine going quickly since a viral infection is difficult to treat

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Problem is getting the vaccine to some of the patients tho

 

[Hendre]

Problem is getting the vaccine to some of the patients tho

The WHO is on top of it

 

[skjl47]

Hello; Well it has started again. Just read that a doctor who "may" be infected with ebola has already been flown back into the USA from the Congo. Neat. I guess it is better to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission. Deed is done. Now we have to "depend " on their expertise so if truly infected it does not get out like it did a few years ago.

 

[Warborg]

Round 3?

 

[skjl47]

Round 3?

Hello; Within our forum I guess this may be round #3. I did a search with the intention of posting the newest information in the original thread. That thread still must exist but is closed to further posts.

In terms of new outbreaks of the deadly disease I have lost count. I know there have been several in Africa but the distinction for me is that we again "may" have an infected person inside the borders of the USA. The best case will be that this particular doctor does not turn out to actually be infected.

Some old and some new questions come to mind. A new one being what ever came of the search for a cure or a vaccine that was supposed to be very near a few years ago? I guess the existence of more outbreaks is at least a partial answer to that question ( Hint- Must be no cure nor functioning vaccine does exist as yet.)

Among the old questions is why take the chance of importing such a disease by moving an infected or possibly infected person to a place where no disease is yet present. Do a quarantine in place and if actually infected treat in place.
I do understand why someone wants to be in a top hospital here in the USA if ill with that particular virus. Duh, your chance of survival apparently goes way up. My point being so does the chance the deadly virus can get out into a previously clean population as it did a few years ago.

I get that these medical folks are being noble and brave by volunteering to go into the heart of the outbreaks to help treat others. However does not some of the nobility of the act go away when they decide to "potentially" carry the stuff back home? Oh. Oh. Oh,. I already forget, I did not get a voice in this as the deed is already done.

 

[Warborg]

Hello; Within our forum I guess this may be round #3. I did a search with the intention of posting the newest information in the original thread. That thread still must exist but is closed to further posts.

It got locked. Someone kept bringing politics into it. The Mods got tired of cleaning it.

In terms of new outbreaks of the deadly disease I have lost count. I know there have been several in Africa but the distinction for me is that we again "may" have an infected person inside the borders of the USA. The best case will be that this particular doctor does not turn out to actually be infected.

There was an outbreak in India earlier this year.

Among the old questions is why take the chance of importing such a disease by moving an infected or possibly infected person to a place where no disease is yet present. Do a quarantine in place and if actually infected treat in place.
I do understand why someone wants to be in a top hospital here in the USA if ill with that particular virus. Duh, your chance of survival apparently goes way up. My point being so does the chance the deadly virus can get out into a previously clean population as it did a few years ago.

Which was the point of the first thread, Title even said it.

Oh. Oh. Oh,. I already forget, I did not get a voice in this as the deed is already done.

We are peons...who cares?

 

[skjl47]

Hello; Let me say up front that I know this is a story about a very different set of diseases but in some ways does illustrate my point. The link is to the story about a surgery center that may have exposed thousands of people to HIV and hepititus strains.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-...as-been-filed/ar-BBRzPpp?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

Clearly there can be big differences between this surgery center and the place where the potentially ebola infected doctor is currently at.

 

[skjl47]

We are peons...who cares?

Hello; Oh yeah. I keep forgetting my place.

 

[pacu mom]

If you want to get scared, read up on prion diseases. In humans, it is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Also known as mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease in animals. Prions are extremely difficult to destroy.

Prions have all the makings for a nightmare horror story, but strangely, prion talk is hushed up. Laws have very quietly been enacted where hunters cannot bring the brains and spinal cords from their kills into California. Being extremely difficult to destroy, yes patients have been infected in surgery with it. If Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is suspected, surgical instruments are destroyed, and tissue samples are sent to a special lab for confirmation and disposal. Because they are difficult to destroy, prions can survive in the environment to infect new hosts that come along (which is probably how it spreads in the wildlife population).

Getting back on the ebola topic, it has been years since my doctors' offices have asked if I have recently traveled outside the country....