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Second Health Care worker has Ebola in Dallas

Confirmed

I had to go back and read that. The 2nd!

I had to have an MRI on my back yesterday and my spine guys receptionist referred us to Presbyterian. Yea, no thanks. Ended up driving 40 miles away to get to another open air MRI but no way I was taking my pregnant wife or myself inside those doors.

Again, CDC really screwed the pooch. He we got an Ebola patient that made into the USA. Should we send a team down and take over, naw they got it. Hell, they sent the guy home the first time, but apparently CDC doesn't think they need help.

Of course Texas is likely looked up by the CDC as Tea Party groups were dealt with by the IRS.

Yeah CDC got another thing wrong

Airborne

Supposed to be a press conference at 7:00 am central.

Should be on FOX

Wondering how much blood the DR. Brantley can give.
If the blood matches, he gives. First health care worker, the girl, has got blood from him, one other Doc, the guy up in Neb. All have received blood.

Not hard to make that choice, the drive was worth it.

Well, plasma to be exact.

And hopefully future survivors would become plasma donors too, cautiously optimistic here about the prospects of the camerman guy in Nebraska.

What I'm hoping for is that the family in the apartment and associated EMS and LEO's there too come up clean (nothing reported so far). If that is true it means the infection can be readily identified before it becomes very contagious, which would be huge.

Birdwatcher

There was an "ebola scare" in Mobile yesterday. A woman walked into the county health dept. with abdominal pain and was speaking what the doctor believed to be Swahili. She mumbled something about Africa and set the ball rolling. Out came the protective "garb" and she was moved to USA children's and women's hospital in a "reserve" ambulance, complete with police escorts.
The ER was shut down and patients were temporarily turned away. Last night they determined she didn't meet CDC requirements for Ebola. All clear sounded. The patient is in isolation however.
News conference set for 10 a.m.

I thought this was a fairly old school approach to treatment?

If it works, surely that means it should be fairly easy to produce vaccine?

If'n it WAS Swahili that would be East Africa, like 2,000 miles away from Liberia. I'm recalling a Peace Corps buddy visiting home who was put in isolation for plain ol'garden variety malaria years ago, which was very funny to the rest of us at the time.

But, for better or worse there's gonna be a number of false alarms, ain't saying we shouldn't respond to 'em, te consequences of being wrong on that score would be far too dire.

Birdwatcher

Two other takeaways from this....

...now we have an inkling of what it was like to be a member of an Indian tribe when Euro epidemics were on the loose, or in Europe at the time of the Black Death...

and....

...as the public reacts to this we get to see if we really are more rational than Liberians.

Birdwatcher

Fox is reporting that Duncan's lab samples were allowed to travel in the pneumatic tube system. Sounds like a complete cluster.

This was The Omega Man's (Charlton Heston's) cure for the deadly bug in that movie, i.e., he'd use his own blood to manufacture blood serum containing his own antibodies, then infuse it into other sufferers, thus destroying the virus. It is, as you say, old school, and is pretty effective, but says nothing at all about the prospects of a vaccine.

Well surely working antibodies are possible, else there would be NO survivors, how that translates to a workable vaccine I dunno.

I do recall that thirty years ago in West Africa we were still getting quarterly 5cc (??) shots of gamma globulin against hepatitis rather than a vaccine.

Birdwatcher

but, but, it can't be transmitted via air. The CDC said so.

and we were told, right here on this forum, that something like this happening was impossible.

ahhhh, the poor Indians. I suppose you feel just like obama, birdwatcher, that at long last, American's will get their due and well earned taste of equal treatment?

No worries.....right, SH?



But everyone agrees the CDC, related to this crap, is totally incompetent..

The results can be (and may very well come to be) catastrophic..

Yep - and by 'guess who'?