The USA needs to warn those traveling from the USA to West Africa, they may have to be maintained in quarantine before and/or after they return. It is the way it was always done before.
A man is isolated in the back of an ambulance at Harvard Vanguard Medical Center in Braintree Sunday afternoon for precautionary measures, officials said the man complained of medical issues and had recently traveled to West Africa. After more than an hour the victim was transported to an area hospital.
October 12, 2014
By Jack Encarnacao and Laural J. Sweet
A man claiming (click here) to have recently traveled to Liberia in West Africa who turned up at the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates urgent-care offices in Braintree this afternoon complaining of a headache, muscle aches and other Ebola-like symptoms was quarantined and has been brought to one of Boston’s top hospitals under police escort, according to multiple authorities.
“Out of an abundance of caution we immediately notified authorities and the patient was securely removed from the building and put into an ambulance now headed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The building was closed briefly but has now re-opened. We are working closely with the Department of Public Health who will determine next steps,” said Dr. Ben Kruskal, chief of infectious disease for Harvard Vanguard.
The driver of the Brewster Ambulance transporting the patient shortly before 4 p.m. was seen wearing a hazmat suit and face mask. Beth Israel is planning to hold a press conference shortly.
A second person was later brought out on a stretcher in a hazmat suit and placed in a second ambulance...
The question has to be asked, why are Americans coming and going from West Africa?
The question has to be asked, why are Americans coming and going from West Africa?
(Reuters) - A medical clinic outside of Boston (click here) was quarantined and a patient has been isolated outside the hospital with a possible case of Ebola, the Boston Globe reported on Sunday.
Police, fire officials and emergency medical services have arrived at the Harvard Vanguard Medical Center in Braintree, Massachusetts, Joe Zanca, with the Braintree Fire Department, told the Globe.
“Ebola protocol is in place,” Zanca said, noting that the patient in isolation recently traveled to West Africa.
Representatives of the hospital and Braintree fire and police departments could not immediately be reached for further comment.
This is exactly what the USA doesn't want and due to extreme control measures Ebola spread like wildfire in Guinea.
...“Coercive measures, (click here) such as laws criminalizing the failure to report suspected cases and forced quarantines, are driving people underground, pushing the sick away from health systems,” Joanne Liu, the international president of Doctors Without Borders, said recently at a United Nations special briefing on Ebola. “These measures have served only to breed fear and unrest rather than contain the virus.”...
The difference between the USA and Guinea is the USA doesn't simply quarantine and allow people to die. People are treated. The USA doesn't have the problems West Africa inherently has.
...Beth Bell, director of the CDC’s National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, told Congress in September, “The best way to protect the U.S. is to stop the outbreak in West Africa.”
This is exactly what the USA doesn't want and due to extreme control measures Ebola spread like wildfire in Guinea.
...“Coercive measures, (click here) such as laws criminalizing the failure to report suspected cases and forced quarantines, are driving people underground, pushing the sick away from health systems,” Joanne Liu, the international president of Doctors Without Borders, said recently at a United Nations special briefing on Ebola. “These measures have served only to breed fear and unrest rather than contain the virus.”...
The difference between the USA and Guinea is the USA doesn't simply quarantine and allow people to die. People are treated. The USA doesn't have the problems West Africa inherently has.
...Beth Bell, director of the CDC’s National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, told Congress in September, “The best way to protect the U.S. is to stop the outbreak in West Africa.”
