i was thinking about this yesterday… remember when all those undocumented children were going to overwhelm the country; or how the aca website was going to destroy healthcare … in the meantime, there’s another very contagious disease that has spread nationwide and has actually resulted in more deaths (and some cases of paralysis) than ebola – but you don’t hear a damned thing about enterovirus…
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I watched the decaying remains of Ms. Marcia live yesterday. The heck with syrup of ipecac, we have Marcia!
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This person was a lab worker. They routinely handle blood and other samples from people with HIV, influenza, hepatitis and other infectious diseases. I’ve personally handled far more of such samples than I can count. They are ALWAYS treated as potentially infectious and universal precautions are employed. Do I now have to lock myself in my basement?
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They had not seen it before in the US, so some mistakes are going to happen. Especially in areas that are not set up for it specifically. They should be more cautious but given that this is the first time they have seen it, other than the news or probably class. It is hard to fault them to much.
The person on the ship is fine. The people running the tests take a fair amount of precaution with all specimen’s anyway.
The reason we’re seeing panic is that the local Belize news is deliberately lying to their readers:
http://belizean.com/belize-confirms-patient-with-ebola-symptoms-on-cruise-ship-off-its-coast-1814/
Apparently Fox news has apprentices.
Only if you answer yes to all three of the following queries:
- Are you a RWNJ?
- Do you have a highspeed internet connection?
- Izzit your Mom’s basement?
Best of luck to you!
jw1
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That comment is no excuse for the stunning incompetence on display here. And since they are health care workers having to “handle a dozen more infectious on a daily basis [sic]”, then they should be in a better position to know from the outset that the public trusts their judgement based on such knowledge.
Because Texas.
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I thought they did that anyway haha
RadicalCentrist, I have a degree in Environmental Control Hazardous Waste Disposal. I am the person that properly disposes what you handle and much more. what you do is low level hazardous waste handling that doesn’t require total isolation from the specimen or agent, nuclear or biological. whether you like it or not handling or coming in contact with Ebola requires more intensive precautionary procedures than you are familiar with. Now if you disagree or want to fight that, well it’s your funeral?
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Absolutely. People are completely and utterly incapable of differentiating between the proper procedures and precautions we should be taking to treat the disease and its incidences versus what needs to be done to treat the ignorant panic. MSM Mission Accomplished.
Yes…but only AFTER you’re done licking all the doorknobs in the neighborhood.
Its your funeral! And by the way I have a degree in Environmental Control Hazardous Waste Disposal…
I don’t believe it was negligence at all. I believe they deliberately chose not to believe a black man who showed up at the door with an african accent and no health insurance and did whatever they usually do to shuffle “those types” out the damn door.
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This. If we were talking about someone who worked at one of the locations in Nebraska, Maryland or Georgia that handled Ebola patents without incident I would think the concern to be a bit of an over reaction. But we aren’t. We are talking about someone who works at a facility where things seem to have gone wrong at every stage, from the initial misdiagnosis, to the infected nurses, to the sending, apparently, improperly isolated samples through the hospital pneumonic system. Given all that, I think it is a bit more reasonable to be concerned, because you kind of loose the benefit of the doubt after having had as many fuck ups dealing with this case as the Texas hospital has.
I mean cruise ships seem to be hot beds for disease transmission at the best of times, so it seems reasonable to maybe put off your cruise until you are outside of the 21 day monitoring period. Even if it is just so that you don’t risk coming down with something that might mimic some of the initial symptoms like a food bug that causes fever, vomiting or diarrhea.
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That is not true. It WAS not done properly the first few days, and THAT is when the disease could have been spread to a person caring for the patient (like Nina). But since then all protocols have been followed. The “breach in protocol” was in the first few days when a person from Liberia who had Ebola like symptoms was not treated as an Ebola patient. That was asinine.
Maybe put off your cruise on any prison-ship forever…that is my motto and I am sticking with it!
True, but were they somehow unaware that this is a disease that kills a fairly high proportion of the people who contract it? Have they been living in a cave?
Why aren’t we closing the border with Texas!!!
Clearly Texans can’t be trusted not to spread the Ebola around all of North America.
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The high mortality rate for Ebola is largely because patients aren’t treated in time or in dirt-poor conditions we wouldn’t subject pets to in America.We’ve seen a far lower rate when people who have Ebola are treated outside of Africa.
The guy who came to Texas with Ebola was in contact with dozens of friends and relatives, exactly none of whom caught the virus.
I’m confident that the two health workers who contracted Ebola while he was in hospital will fully recover.