A new kind of Ebola?
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More Than 100 Health Workers Fighting Ebola Have Contracted It Themselves
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But a number that is even more alarming was buried in the middle of a Reuters report on Friday. According to Reuters, “more than 100 health workers” that have been fighting Ebola in Africa have contracted the virus themselves. Considering the extraordinary measures that these health workers take to keep from getting the disease, that is quite chilling. We are not just talking about one or two “accidents”. We are talking about more than 100 of them getting sick... The health professionals that are on the front lines of the Ebola fight in Africa are going to extraordinary lengths to keep from getting the virus…
To minimise the risk of infection they have to wear thick rubber boots that come up to their knees, an impermeable body suit, gloves, a face mask, a hood and goggles to ensure no air at all can touch their skin. They are only allowed to work for between four and six weeks in the field because the conditions are so gruelling. At their camp they go through multiple decontaminations which includes spraying chlorine on their shoes.
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Local nurses are going on strike. They refuse to work with Ebola patients. One doctor who worked in Africa fighting Ebola talked about being in a ward with 70 Ebola patients, and there were just two people there: Himself and another foreign doctor.
There have been outbreaks of Ebola-related viruses, most specifically in Reston, VA. This particular Ebola variant showed up in infected macaque monkeys. However, in the research facility it showed a distressing new capability of becoming airborne. Monkeys in the facility became sick, even if the only thing they shared was the ventilation system.
This was all chronicled in the book The Hot Zone, which I read at the time. It was scary stuff.
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Here’s what happened:
In the fall of 1989, Hazelton Laboratories had a lab at 1946 Isaac Newton Square West, where KinderCare is now located. The lab did animal experiments. There were already about 500 macaque monkeys housed at the facility when 100 more were flown from the Philippines, according to an article in the Internet Journal of Preventative Medicine.
A month later, 29 of the 100 quarantined monkeys had died. During a necropsy, a veterinarian found one monkey’s spleen had tripled in size and hardened and there was blood in the intestines. After conducting several other necropsies he diagnosed the deaths as being caused by simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV), the Journal article said.
The Hazelton facility veterinarian then sent samples of the monkey tissues to the United States Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) for a conclusive diagnosis. Meanwhile, Hazelton lab workers began euthanizing the remaining animals, but sporadic deaths began occurring in several other rooms. Soon, 30 monkeys from a different shipment were dead.
Back at USAMRIID another researcher discovered by electron microscopy that Ebola Zaire was responsible for the monkey deaths. On Nov. 28, 1989 nearly six weeks after monkeys began dying in Reston, USAMRIID verified the Ebola finding. The following day, representatives from USAMRIID, the CDC, and the Virginia Department of Health met and developed an action plan. The CDC would handle people; USAMRIID would handle the monkeys and the monkey facility. Because of the threat that Ebola might spread to staff, Reston, and the greater Washington, DC community, the Army determined that all remaining monkeys would be immediately euthanized. The first task was to determine how best to administer a solution to a building potentially full of Ebola.
Scientists came to Reston in hazmat suits in order to carefully euthanize monkeys and stop the spread ofNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
That is new and deeply troubling information. I had read about the one doctor and the two US aid workers. It didn't concern me because there are always a few accidental exposures. (I've read probably a half-dozen full sized books on Ebola - including The Hot Zone - and many papers. That some medical personnel get infected seems to be historically an unavoidable occurrence.)
That SO MANY have become infected is shocking. Something basically different must be happening.
I can imagine another explanation besides it having become airborne. Typically Ebola isn't thought of as being infectious until symptoms develop. It might have developed an infectious prodrome. Or there may be an earlier/ different stage where infection control procedures aren't being followed, for example handling of waste and contaminated articles.
We'll have to wait and see.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Hrmmm. You're quoting "End of the American Dream" web site? Nope, no agenda there....
I know the hate Sig has for this country is always present. I was looking back at other threads.
Roller coaster economics: 2007 redux?
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=58118.
She can't wait for this country to fail and never missises an opportunity to slander us.
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Hrmmm. You're quoting "End of the American Dream" web site? Nope, no agenda there....
She can't wait for this country to fail and never missises an opportunity to slander us.
Because a news story - about Ebola - in Africa- is ALL ABOUT the US. Or do you really not know that Africa is on a different continent than the US? Sheesh. You two - could you be any more full of crap?
Oh, yeah - better put Reuters on your list of news sources you refuse to accept.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-health-ebola-healthworker
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Exposure of health workers weakens Africa's Ebola fight
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By Umaru Fofana, Daniel Flynn and Kate Kelland
More than 100 health workers have been infected by the viral disease
Yanno, it occurred to me she could be posting stories carried by major news agencies but linking minor sources. Just to make you do your Pavlovian thang and point and gibber about the SOURCE by god! And make you look even more stupid than you already do. If that's at all possible.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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THUGR is just mad because I said the only thing he brought to this forum was the ability to suck his own dick. Which is true.
He draws nice pictures, tho.
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G, the fact that 100 healthcare workers got Ebola was listed in other sites, but the one I linked had links to the other sources in one convenient place. YES, it is a scare-mongering site, but it did have quotes and links. If you can't separate out the information from the source... if you rely on the source to do your thinking for you... then it's you that has a problem, not me.
I would have liked more information on those 100 workers - local, foreign workers, and internal experts - all of whom have gotten sick.
Did the local healthcare workers have access to even SOME protective equipment? Did the foreign healthcare workers have access? If yes, did they ditch the hazmat suits - which make working so arduous that you have to spend the next 7 hours re-hydrating- in favor of being able to work longer hours? Many unanswered questions.
The outbreak so far as been represented with a rearview mirror outlook. Officials were warning as recently as last week that the epidemic "could" cross international boundaries, when the reality is that it already has.
Finally, they woke up. Experts at the WHO are deciding whether to declare this a serious health emergency, which would allow the suspension of international travel, for example. Sierra Leone has brought the military into play, restricting border travel and doing house-to-house searches. (Quite frankly, I think this will simply scatter people farther, along more surreptitious routes). Developed-world resources are being brought to bear, I feel that as long as they thought this represented yet another third-world disease in yet another third-world nation, NOTHING would be done. But once it looked to become a threat to the developed nations, the gears started moving.
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The fact that you always go to these sites and quote them is the point here. It is always the point with you. You visit these sites because of their bias against America which fuels your hate. It is best for others aside from 1kiki to forgo your input and just research stories that interest them. What you provide is always tainted.
As for sucking dicks, it would be you that actually has experienced that Sig. My boat floats towards sane women.
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It seems like yo judge the news by the source, rather than by the facts.
BTW, I don't 'judge' FOX news. I simply don't have time to sift through it. If one has a long history with a source - validating stories, getting the complete picture through many sources - it's possible to say whether, by your experience, a source is going to provide you with accurate and complete information. You haven't done that. You look at the name and make a bunch of assumptions. I challenge you to spend a week looking at the front page of RT. Note which stories are true and which are false by your ability to find the same information in other places.
Not that you will, of course. B/c you 'know' better.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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G...your just beating your head up against a wall with this one. I can guaranty no matter what she will continue to say so you don't believe in the facts over and over again. She's too (fill in the blank)to bother with.
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