A travel ban won't work. Will a refugee stop seeking refuge? A travel ban will only encourage circumventing the ports of entry to the USA.
Right now the traveler is better off being caught having an infection than to go it alone and hope to make it to an emergency room on their own disregarding any safety or monitoring along the way.
What occurred with Mr. Duncan is exactly what this country should not want. At either end of the monitoring, the potential patient will be found and provided monitoring and treatment. That is the only method whereby a person who may be ill knowingly or not will be found before they spread the disease.
Americans in West Africa has a right to come home. This disease may have been stemmed completely if there was sufficient funding for research. The Republican priorities are completely backward. A country with means does not abandon research and it does not create danger for its own citizens by turning sane people into fugitives from a travel ban. Republican priorities are dangerous and completely disregard the public when dismissing the importance of governance and policy.
Eboli is not the avian flu.
October 17, 2014
By Daniel M. Keller
Any person is most likely to seek out government authority for help when there are no penalties to do so. Not only will they seek government authority and/or hospitals when they are infected, but, citizens within the USA are also willing to come forward without reservations to their treatment.
The emergency rooms today around the country where people believe they have been exposed for whatever reasons they believe that are coming in fairly large numbers to be checked. It is important open doors continue to receive information. If this virus gets out of control the entire character of the country will change. Monitoring those that might be infected provides information to the public that proves tracing people and monitoring them works. Not only does it work, but, treatment appears to be successful.
Right now the traveler is better off being caught having an infection than to go it alone and hope to make it to an emergency room on their own disregarding any safety or monitoring along the way.
What occurred with Mr. Duncan is exactly what this country should not want. At either end of the monitoring, the potential patient will be found and provided monitoring and treatment. That is the only method whereby a person who may be ill knowingly or not will be found before they spread the disease.
Americans in West Africa has a right to come home. This disease may have been stemmed completely if there was sufficient funding for research. The Republican priorities are completely backward. A country with means does not abandon research and it does not create danger for its own citizens by turning sane people into fugitives from a travel ban. Republican priorities are dangerous and completely disregard the public when dismissing the importance of governance and policy.
Eboli is not the avian flu.
October 17, 2014
By Daniel M. Keller
PHILADELPHIA — A vaccine (click here) containing small amounts of influenza H7N9 antigen elicited good immune responses when mixed with a common adjuvant, according to the results of a new study.
"The H7 hemagglutinin is a very poor antigen," said Mark Mulligan, MD, director of the Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center and professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. "We know that from earlier H7 containing subtype vaccines that there is very little immune response to the protein alone."
Speaking here at IDWeek 2014, Dr Mulligan reported that two doses of 45 μg of hemagglutinin antigen raised antibody titers only minimally, but when mixed with MF59 adjuvant, doses as low as 3.75 μg were very effective. The technique may be valuable during pandemics, when vaccine antigen is in short supply, and may help raise antibodies to poorly immunogenic antigens.
The study was also published in the October 8 issue of JAMA....
The emergency rooms today around the country where people believe they have been exposed for whatever reasons they believe that are coming in fairly large numbers to be checked. It is important open doors continue to receive information. If this virus gets out of control the entire character of the country will change. Monitoring those that might be infected provides information to the public that proves tracing people and monitoring them works. Not only does it work, but, treatment appears to be successful.
