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[Stradawhovious]

Makes one wonder ... if a Houston hospital can't properly deal with Ebola ... how can one expect a hospital in Africa to deal with Ebola?

They don't. Not really.

Sad but true.

I work for the healthcare industry in the upper midwest and they are constantly running containment drills in the event that we get an outbreak here. The sad reality is, all it takes is one scared person to circumvent the protocol...

If the newly diagnosed nurse in Texas is protecting her friends, family whatever by neglecting to say she had contact with them the outbreak could easily be in multiple States by now. Have a nice day!

 

[Gary A.]

I've worked in West Africa. Sadly, from the video it doesn't seem to have improved any since I was there decades ago.

 

[Gary A.]

Makes one wonder ... if a Houston hospital can't properly deal with Ebola ... how can one expect a hospital in Africa to deal with Ebola?

They don't. Not really.

Sad but true.

I work for the healthcare industry in the upper midwest and they are constantly running containment drills in the event that we get an outbreak here. The sad reality is, all it takes is one scared person to circumvent the protocol...

If the newly diagnosed nurse in Texas is protecting her friends, family whatever by neglecting to say she had contact with them the outbreak could easily be in multiple States by now. Have a nice day!

Any educated, reasonably intelligent person will know better than to 'neglect' informing the authorities of those which she had contacts. What alarms me are the casual contacts that she does not remember. A sneeze on a bus ... used utensils in a diner ... a disposal cup at the nurses station ... et al.

 

[Gary A.]

There was an Ebola scare on a plane which landed in LA and an Ebola hoax on a City bus. The authorities here have reviewed the response and and are now rethinking how they react to Ebola incidents

 

[Gary A.]

What I find interesting are the words I misspell which pass spell check. Like, wow, I didn't know that was a word?

 

[Stradawhovious]

[Any educated, reasonably intelligent person will know better than to 'neglect' informing the authorities of those which she had contacts.

You forgot "rationally thinking". Situations like this have a funny way of making otherwise rational people pretty irrational.

 

[sm4him]

Makes one wonder ... if a Houston hospital can't properly deal with Ebola ... how can one expect a hospital in Africa to deal with Ebola?

The CDC has admitted that they "were not adequately prepared" to handle this outbreak. Well, duh. If the best we've got is checking people's temperatures before letting them back on American soil, and hoping everybody with this VERY generic list of symptoms "self-reports"…well, we're screwed.

 

[Gary A.]

The authorities cleaned out the nurses apartment. I imagine they gathered all the bedding, towels ... stuff which could harbor body fluids, bagged it all and was transporting it to a landfill in Louisiana. The transport vehicle was met at the state line by the Louisiana Attorney General and refused to allow the suspect Ebola infused material into the State. If I lived in Louisiana I'd have a toast to the Attorney General.

Granted, I haven't a clue why waste from Houston destined for Louisiana. (i.e. Louisiana was much closer than a Texas haz-mat waste facility.) But I am a firm believer in States Rights, lol.

 

[sm4him]

I mean, I know people who thought they might be having a freakin' HEART ATTACK who didn't "self report"--some even lived to tell the tale. And we're relying "self reporting" because you have a fever, aches and pains, and general flu-like symptoms, and think that perhaps you came into contact with someone who came into contact with someone who came into...

 

[Gary A.]

[Any educated, reasonably intelligent person will know better than to 'neglect' informing the authorities of those which she had contacts.

You forgot "rationally thinking". Situations like this have a funny way of making otherwise rational people pretty irrational.

True, but one would think a nurse would be well aware of the deadly potential of Ebola and that medical aid is the absolute best way to combat the virus.

 

[Gary A.]

I mean, I know people who thought they might be having a freakin' HEART ATTACK who didn't "self report"--some even lived to tell the tale. And we're relying "self reporting" because you have a fever, aches and pains, and general flu-like symptoms, and think that perhaps you came into contact with someone who came into contact with someone who came into...

I don't think that Ebola can successful be transmitted that way. At this point its gotta be body fluids, which pretty much means direct contact. Sorta like a STD as opposed to a cold or flu.

 

[limr]

They've also quarantined her dog apparently.

 

[limr]

Oh yeah - hey, y'all!

 

[Stradawhovious]

True, but one would think a nurse would be well aware of the deadly potential of Ebola and that medical aid is the absolute best way to combat the virus.

No question about that. If acted upon rationally, there would be no issue. Remember, it wouldn't be in this country at all right now if Thomas Duncan hadn't lied on his exit form in Liberia... Fear feeds irrational action. Don't you watch Horror flicks?

 

[limr]

Jam you and your stupid time restrictions, error message!