Ebola in Texas.

[Dave_L]

My wife is a primary care nurse and she is already nervous about this. They finally started screening patients via the phone before letting them come in but not everyone is truthful on that which I don't understand. If you might have Ebola, don't you want them to know ASAP? Her bosses have a long meeting today about Ebola so steps are seemingly in the works. I'm nervous for her and don't know if I'd let her go to work if it gets bad.

[roberth]

My wife is a primary care nurse and she is already nervous about this. They finally started screening patients via the phone before letting them come in but not everyone is truthful on that which I don't understand. If you might have Ebola, don't you want them to know ASAP? Her bosses have a long meeting today about Ebola so steps are seemingly in the works. I'm nervous for her and don't know if I'd let her go to work if it gets bad.

This is a test of a person's integrity and honesty, at least half of the people tested will fail.

Duncan failed the test too. He had to know he had it, did he show even the slightest concern for his fellow human beings? NO, and he got what he deserved after he infected at least 2 other people. What a fuckin' piece of shit Thomas Duncan was.

Duncan is believed to have flown to the U.S. via Brussels on Sept. 20. United Airlines believes he took two connecting United flights that day to get to Dallas — flying from Brussels to Washington Dulles on Flight 951 and then from Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth on Flight 822 the same day.

[sellersm]

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) says that Ebola is indeed airborne: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-persp...otection-ebola

And did you see what happened in Cleveland? That nurse apparently made a stop in Cleveland, and now they're (over?) reacting: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...pped-city.html

[TFOGGER]

The CDC is batting .000 so far. Complacency and overconfidence have put the public at unnecessary risk. It's difficult to believe that this level of incompetence is unintentional.

[Great-Kazoo]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO RELAX The CDC is evolving in it's response to the Ebola Scare and like President Obama says it's merely a Junior Varsity disease

[TFOGGER]

I've been invited to a Webinar in about 8 minutes via the UCD School of Public Health. I'll see if I cna figure out a way to record it and post it up. This is information for health professionals, by health professionals.

link: Ebola from an Occupational Health Perspective


Thursday, Oct. 16 | 11 a.m.

Dr. Lee Newman, ColoradoSPH professor for Environmental & Occupational Health and director of the Center for Worker Health will present a webinar on the Ebola virus. This will include an update to public health concerns and the occupational health response.

Register today <http://t.hsms05.com/e1t/c/*W6yJrC35fWKsgVtn9lk54y-Xv0/*N4ffwl72hfyxW1bYpQS651R-20/5/f18dQhb0S5fg8XJ8PxW91BHcb7PKkCqN12h74Pd_Vc0W5vGrjF 5dlbVMW2K4R9r8ZkD0BW7rD_JM8W2ncDW32q0P68X4zzqW8Wm1 tt31qJZpW2MDk-058QqyhVvM6pK7vkQkkW4bJ02h4b_rKwW7MbC3Q5pXc-6W7PN6th96zRPSW6bT6L38RRjRDN5CkCbgp8LJhW5D8zFF6bVz cWW18dLZ_52YlfxW3_8mpl9fgwMTW4fdx1R8T44lXW1jzwjh7s xpx0W1RMyL-8g0jSJW4Bd3f24jQq6MN7xbdPWrNvCmW2cppHN7nBfQhVHCXfC 7tCd67W6XQ2K62dFdmNVwwWT6841qbWW7HTY8H5N1L_bW56DSb 56xN_NjMwcQkj5BZnvW8nDXSC8S-c3lW3Cdk0d3wv7SmW6x-Qb42LCvJ9W1HlmM149vxLzW7v5YPR2Sw2fQW3xnqCb714h8QW1 nzDYr9lLPhxW2xwj4d3LqpRsW8Slhg95yqnJPW5l0Pvm4xd-k7TGL-R17FkFW103> for this timely, free webinar!

This webinar is hosted by Axion Health.

You have to sign up, and I don't know if there's a limit on the number of attendees.

[hollohas]

http://www.courant.com/health/hc-yal...016-story.html

NEW HAVEN — Officials say Yale-New Haven Hospital expects to receive test results in the next 24 hours on a patient who recently traveled to Liberia and was admitted Wednesday night with a fever.
The patient is one of two Yale University students who returned home last week after spending a month in Liberia researching the Ebola outbreak, according to the New Haven mayor's office....

...When they returned from Liberia, the students initially planned to sequester themselves for 21 days. Paul D. Cleary, dean of Yale University's School of Public Health, said Monday in a letter that "after carefully considering the matter, a university-wide team of physicians, epidemiologists and senior administrators concluded that a 21-day sequestration was unnecessary."The decision not to sequester the students was made in coordination with the CDC, Yale Medical School Dean Robert Alpern said at the press conference....

[Sawin]

The CDC is batting .000 so far. Complacency and overconfidence have put the public at unnecessary risk. It's difficult to believe that this level of incompetence is unintentional.

What did you expect? The CDC is based in Atlanta... I moved away from there to escape the idiocy of that city's population.

I am convinced their incompetence is the result of the Atlanta-esque "Fake-It til you Make-It" approach to life.

[sellersm]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO RELAX The CDC is evolving in it's response to the Ebola Scare and like President Obama says it's merely a Junior Varsity disease

Thanks Jim! I feel better now...

[Dave]

Watched a little bit of the CDC chief on CNN in my building's break room, no need to panic and no need for travel bans to and from W Africa. Even though Europe has already done so and haven't had anyone yet cross their border and spread it to two other people.