Dallas did a magnificent job, this death was not their failure. They weren't expecting anyone walking in off the street to be carrying this virus.
There was an indication when the family went to the hospital to visit with or at least see Mr. Duncan. Frequently, it is the practice of any hospital staff to alert the family a patient's condition is deteriorating. I had feeling he might pass. Sympathies to his family and friends.
There has been a lot of fear in the USA over this incident.
October 8, 2014
By Dan Diamond
...A passenger had Ebola-like symptoms (click here) aboard a jet from Texas to Florida — nevermind, not Ebola after all.
As predicted, the number of Ebola false alarms in the United States has skyrocketed since Thomas E. Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas on Sept. 30. In a briefing this weekend, the CDC said it’s been getting more than 800 calls a day from hospitals and other concerned parties, up from about 50 a day before Duncan’s diagnosis.
None of those thousands of calls have turned out to be Ebola....
The new protocol for arriving passengers from overseas travel (one might want to consider all ports of entry at some point) will help close the 'window of opportunity' for the virus.
Replicating the antibodies. One living source can't be the only answer. We have to do better. Is there any chance survivors in West Africa can donate to begin to end the suffering in there?
October 8, 2014
By Abby Ohlheiser
For the second time, (click here) Ebola survivor Kent Brantly has donated his blood to a patient fighting the virus. NBC News announced Wednesday that Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman who was diagnosed with Ebola while working for the network in Liberia, will receive some of Brantly's blood as part of his treatment against the virus at the Nebraska Medical Center.
...Mukpo, like Sacra, also has the same blood type as Brantly, opening up the possibility that the transfusion treatment could work in his case. The medical center reached out to Brantly, who was traveling at the time, after realizing that the pair were a match....
So, the treatment to date is to transfuse whole blood. Curious. What happens to the circulating red blood cells of the victim? Is there something different between the victim's and survivor's red blood cells? Is there any chance the white blood cells of survivors can be separated and even divided to begin the body to produce their own?
This is going to sound morbid, but, is there any value to the body fluids of the deceased in research?
There was an indication when the family went to the hospital to visit with or at least see Mr. Duncan. Frequently, it is the practice of any hospital staff to alert the family a patient's condition is deteriorating. I had feeling he might pass. Sympathies to his family and friends.
There has been a lot of fear in the USA over this incident.
October 8, 2014
By Dan Diamond
...A passenger had Ebola-like symptoms (click here) aboard a jet from Texas to Florida — nevermind, not Ebola after all.
As predicted, the number of Ebola false alarms in the United States has skyrocketed since Thomas E. Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas on Sept. 30. In a briefing this weekend, the CDC said it’s been getting more than 800 calls a day from hospitals and other concerned parties, up from about 50 a day before Duncan’s diagnosis.
None of those thousands of calls have turned out to be Ebola....
The new protocol for arriving passengers from overseas travel (one might want to consider all ports of entry at some point) will help close the 'window of opportunity' for the virus.
Replicating the antibodies. One living source can't be the only answer. We have to do better. Is there any chance survivors in West Africa can donate to begin to end the suffering in there?
October 8, 2014
By Abby Ohlheiser
For the second time, (click here) Ebola survivor Kent Brantly has donated his blood to a patient fighting the virus. NBC News announced Wednesday that Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman who was diagnosed with Ebola while working for the network in Liberia, will receive some of Brantly's blood as part of his treatment against the virus at the Nebraska Medical Center.
In September, Brantly, an American doctor, donated some of his plasma to Rick Sacra, who was also treated at the Nebraska Medical Center....
...Mukpo, like Sacra, also has the same blood type as Brantly, opening up the possibility that the transfusion treatment could work in his case. The medical center reached out to Brantly, who was traveling at the time, after realizing that the pair were a match....
So, the treatment to date is to transfuse whole blood. Curious. What happens to the circulating red blood cells of the victim? Is there something different between the victim's and survivor's red blood cells? Is there any chance the white blood cells of survivors can be separated and even divided to begin the body to produce their own? Immunoglobulins (click here)
I am not going to even attempt to be up on all the latest in transfusion technology, but, as a rule the plasma and white blood cells don't require blood typing. I don't know that immunoglobulin can be cultured either. Sandoz was the premier Ig producer.
October 8, 2014
CBSDFW.COM
...Under normal circumstances, (click here) the Dallas Medical Examiner’s office would be in charge of moving Duncan’s body from the hospital. According to the CDC, the virus can be transmitted postmortem through bodily fluids. Therefore, the CDC has issued guidelines to hospitals and mortuaries for how to safely handle the human remains of any person who has contracted Ebola and died from the disease....
