A 5-year-old boy (click here) is under observation at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital this morning after experiencing a 103-degree fever after returning home from Guinea Saturday, prompting Ebolaconcerns, officials told ABC News.
The boy is in isolation, but has not been tested for Ebola and is not under quarantine, the city’s health department said.
Especially important in West Africa and our military personnel. There needs to be a dedicated research team testing fomite in all the infected areas. It is best to start where the disease is first being treated. The beds, the floors, the side tables, the rest rooms, all of it. There needs to be culture swabs conducted, marked with date, time and location and sent to be cultured on appropriate culture media to find out how these folks are transmitting the virus. But, most importantly, if they are having the virus transmitted on fomite. This child was not a care giver and children are more busy with their hands because they are learning about their world. Show me a mother or father that isn't always saying, "Don't touch that." Well, here we are now with a non-caregiver perhaps contracting the virus.
It is time there was profound leadership on Ebola and all the other issues the USA is struggling with in regard to health care. Nothing better happen to this child.
Especially important in West Africa and our military personnel. There needs to be a dedicated research team testing fomite in all the infected areas. It is best to start where the disease is first being treated. The beds, the floors, the side tables, the rest rooms, all of it. There needs to be culture swabs conducted, marked with date, time and location and sent to be cultured on appropriate culture media to find out how these folks are transmitting the virus. But, most importantly, if they are having the virus transmitted on fomite. This child was not a care giver and children are more busy with their hands because they are learning about their world. Show me a mother or father that isn't always saying, "Don't touch that." Well, here we are now with a non-caregiver perhaps contracting the virus.
It is time there was profound leadership on Ebola and all the other issues the USA is struggling with in regard to health care. Nothing better happen to this child.
