We should be cautious and prepared for Ebola and not assume we can contain it. We use isolation chambers and a massive team of doctors in special rooms at the CDC just to take care of 2 people. I take a look at the hospitals in DFW and I doubt they can properly contain a handful of cases concurrently.
CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US
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#42I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that the mass hysteria and paranoia coming from this will cause far greater damage than any actual cases
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#43I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that the mass hysteria and paranoia coming from this will cause far greater damage than any actual cases
Yup, time to buy some GSK shares...
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#44We should be cautious and prepared for Ebola and not assume we can contain it. We use isolation chambers and a massive team of doctors in special rooms at the CDC just to take care of 2 people. I take a look at the hospitals in DFW and I doubt they can properly contain a handful of cases concurrently.
All hospitals can contain Ebola. This is not an airborne disease and therefore negative pressure isolation is not needed (unless performing aerosol generating procedures). All you need is a private room and proper PPE use and infection control procedures.
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#45Am I correct in assuming that cultural differences concerning death and the dead along with our healthcare system mean Ebola in America would be relatively containable?
Depends on how fast you are able to identify and isolate the patients. Unless there is reason to suspect ebola it's not exactly the first diagnosis that will come to mind. Most hospitals probably also don't have the necessary isolation facilities or at least not on standby.
Ultimately though ebola is relatively easy to combat, collect the patients, put a fence around them, wait long enough and clean up what's left. The problem is finding and securely containing the patients.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW, though DFW is a very big airport, there are no direct flights from Africa that land there. If they ended up in Dallas, they at least stopped somewhere outside Africa before they got there.
That would have to be somewhere in Europe.
ITA thinks there are routes from Monrovia to DFW which do not transit Europe. For example there is one via Casablanca and Montreal.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW, though DFW is a very big airport, there are no direct flights from Africa that land there. If they ended up in Dallas, they at least stopped somewhere outside Africa before they got there.
That would have to be somewhere in Europe.
There are flights from west Africa to both Atlanta and Houston, plus some other cities. United services Nigeria and Ghana out of Houston and Dulles respectively, Delta has some flights to the same cities out of their hubs.
It is most certainly possible to fly from west Africa to the US without transiting a third region.
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#48What's going to be a real struggle is how do you differentiate between symptoms of the stomach flu, influenza, Ebola, and so on...
Well someone that hasn't been to an affected country, or been in contact with the current case won't have Ebola.
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#49I personally would be concerned if I was sat next to that person on the flight back home. Even if the fear is unrealistic.
Don't tell me you would happily sitting and eating next to someone with confirmed ebola for 8 hours plus, because they haven't started showing symptoms at that very moment.
I would at the very least go to a doctor to be sure.
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#50We should be cautious and prepared for Ebola and not assume we can contain it. We use isolation chambers and a massive team of doctors in special rooms at the CDC just to take care of 2 people. I take a look at the hospitals in DFW and I doubt they can properly contain a handful of cases concurrently.
All hospitals can contain Ebola. This is not an airborne disease and therefore negative pressure isolation is not needed (unless performing aerosol generating procedures). All you need is a private room and proper PPE use and infection control procedures.
Most modern / renovated hospitals (last ~10-15 years) have designed their isolation rooms to be negative pressure anyway and standard patient rooms also operate under negative pressure because of how airhandling is setup (albeit a very light negative pressure)