Three weeks ago, after 20 years in healthcare (radiology), my niece who worked at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas resigned to pursue other opportunities outside of healthcare.
Three weeks ago, after 20 years in healthcare (radiology), my niece who worked at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas resigned to pursue other opportunities outside of healthcare.
Man do I see a potential FUBAR with this....
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-health-ebola-liberia-idUSKCN0HO28420140929
U.S. military to quickly ramp up Ebola mission in Liberia
By James Giahyue
MONROVIA Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:40pm EDT
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(Reuters) - The United States plans to quickly increase its presence in Liberia, where military personnel are deploying to help the West African nation halt the advance of the worst Ebola epidemic on record, the general in charge of the mission said on Monday.
Washington is sending some 3,000 soldiers to the region to build treatment centers and train local medics. Around half will be based in Liberia, with the rest providing logistical support outside the country.
"This is about urgency and speed. So what you're going to see here pretty soon is forces flown here," Major General Darryl Williams told journalists in the capital, Monrovia.
"I have 175 soldiers and I have another 30 that are in other countries that are beginning to set up the logistics hub to fly forces in here," he said.
Williams said the U.S. mission was planning to build and supply 17 Ebola treatment units across the country but added that Liberian authorities would still be leading the effort.
"The (Armed Forces of Liberia) has a great capability. They are already out there ... and helping us, because they have this knowledge of the local area. So we are not doing anything by ourselves," he said.
At least 3,091 people have died from Ebola since the West African outbreak was first identified in Guinea six months ago.
Liberia has recorded 1,830 deaths, around three times as many as Guinea or Sierra Leone, the two other heavily affected countries.
The epidemic has overwhelmed regional health sectors still struggling to rebuild after years of civil war and turmoil. The disease has infected 375 healthcare workers across the region, killing 211 of them.
Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer and deputy health minister, put herself in quarantine over the weekend as a precaution against Ebola after one of her assistants died from the disease.
"As destructive as the Liberian Civil War was, at least our people knew the warring factions and the frontlines," Liberia's Foreign Affairs Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan told the U.N. General Assembly on Monday.
"With Ebola, the enemy is more insidious and there are no clear-cut frontlines because someone's child, someone's husband, someone's workmate could actually be the enemy and the frontline at the same time," he said.
The U.S. embassy in Morovia said on Monday that work to build a 25-bed unit to treat infected health workers, international and Liberian, had begun in Margibi Country in central Liberia. Construction is due to be completed in a few weeks.
"It is intended to provide a high standard of care, so that when they put themselves at risk they have someplace they can go to be treated," said Deborah Malac, U.S. ambassador to Liberia. "We will be sending approximately 65 medical personnel to staff that hospital."
After a slow initial response, foreign governments and international organizations are now pouring funds, supplies and personnel into West Africa.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called on more nations to help fight the outbreak, saying hundreds of thousands of lives were at stake.
Britain, France, China and Cuba have all pledged military and civilian personnel alongside cash and medical supplies.
(Writing by Joe Bavier; Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Bernard Orr)
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Has anyone seen a report on the Dallas patient?
lots of repots saying 'awaiting results' but I have not seen anything on the test results yet
thx
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You all SHOULD KNOW by now HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY WORKS.
If they are admitting to the public that there is ONE CASE OF EBOLA, it is only because there is MORE THAN ONE, and they would NOT even be admitting it then UNLESS CIRCUMSTANCES have made the truth impossible to cover up because of what is going to be done very soon! I am betting that they have a problem with how many may have been exposed and tracking them.
You all SHOULD KNOW by now HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY WORKS.
If they are admitting to the public that there is ONE CASE OF EBOLA, it is only because there is MORE THAN ONE, and they would NOT even be admitting it then UNLESS CIRCUMSTANCES have made the truth impossible to cover up because of what is going to be done very soon! I am betting that they have a problem with how many may have been exposed and tracking them.
in an article from drudge it says he arrived in us on sept 20, developed symptoms by 24-25th, went to hospital on 28th. so im wondering where he went in between there.
Health officials are now trying to reach anyone who might have come into contact with the man during his infectious period.
Those people will be monitored for three weeks after their exposure to the patient to see if fever develops.
in an article from drudge it says he arrived in us on sept 20, developed symptoms by 24-25th, went to hospital on 28th. so im wondering where he went in between there.
The patient sought care after becoming sick but was initially sent home. (good one USA!!!)
He returned to hospital on September 28 and was admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas — (more than a week after arriving in the United States.)
The man’s nationality has not been revealed but he came to America to visit relatives. (Liberian?) (See post 664)
Health officials are now trying to reach anyone who might have come into contact with the man during his infectious period.
Those people will be monitored for three weeks after their exposure to the patient to see if fever develops. (Note the use of the word fever, NOT Ebola)
Dr Thomas Frieden, from the Centers for Disease Control, believes “a handful” of people had contact with the patient between September 24 and 28, including family members and “a couple” of community members.
Those people are to be monitored by the CDC. (Now, a handful of sand has many grains!!!)
The man was staying with family and did not stay at a hotel.
Link:http://www.news.com.au/world/first-case-of-ebola-diagnosed-in-us/story-fndir2ev-1227075972493
sb
in an article from drudge it says he arrived in us on sept 20, developed symptoms by 24-25th, went to hospital on 28th. so im wondering where he went in between there.
USA: 1st case to fall ill in the USA (Texas), imported
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Date: 30 Sep 2014 [Breaking news alert published at 5:50 p.m. ET]
Source: (CNN) [edited]
<http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1>
A person travelling from Liberia to the United States has been
diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters Tue [30 Sep 2014]. The
person, whose identity was not released, left Liberia on 19 Sep 2014
and arrived in the USA on 20 Sep 2014, he said. At that time, the
person did not have symptoms. "But 4 or 5 days later" that person
began to show symptoms, Frieden said. The person was hospitalized and
isolated Sun [28 Sep 2014] at a hospital in Texas, he said.
[Original story published at 5:42 p.m. ET]
A patient being treated at a Dallas, Texas, hospital is the 1st person
diagnosed with Ebola in the USA. Several other Americans were
diagnosed in West Africa and then brought to the USA for treatment.
The person who first tested positive for Ebola in the USA is a patient
at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, hospital spokesman
Stephen O'Brien said Tue 30 Sep 2013.
The adult patient developed symptoms days after returning to Texas
from West Africa, and was admitted into isolation on Sun [28 Sep
2014], according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The CDC was expected to provide more details on the case in a press
conference at 5:30 p.m.
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sb
Not only him, but where does his relatives who live with him work? Who've they all been in contact with? (must be in Dallas somewhere)
And can those people be located and contacted and safely cocooned in a safe environment before they asymptomatically infect others?
Welcome to exponential growth.
This may be a false alarm. He may be noninfectious. It may come to nothing and we can all sleep safe in our beds. But it is certainly discomfiting.
Not only him, but where does his relatives who live with him work? Who've they all been in contact with? (must be in Dallas somewhere)