The CDC should be conversing with the UK Department of Health and WHO to begin to derive a protocol regarding Ebola.
I trust the CDC and am confident anyone involved with the CDC and cutting edge hospitals such as John Hopkins are already up to speed on the disease.
No one wants to hear this, but, here again the airlines are going to find a loss of business. Airline passenger compartments are a closed and pressurized system. Jets also travel large distances in a short period of time, so the transportation of Ebola out of Africa is possible.
So far the isolation systems used regarding the people infected are mostly failing. There is a survival rate at this point of about 40%. The demographics of those alive should be evaluated. Young. Old. 20s. 30s. Where is the human body surviving this hemolytic disease.
There are other hemolytic diseases, Ebola is NOT the first scientists have dealt with. Ebola may have different dynamics, but, it is not a stranger to medical science.
Hemolytic anemia (click here) is a disorder in which the red blood cells are destroyed faster than the bone marrow can produce them. The term for destruction of red blood cells is hemolysis. There are two types of hemolytic anemia, intrinsic and extrinsic:...
If the disease is not defeated in Africa and other areas of the world find the infection within their borders, I point to the isolation used by China when SARS was first discovered. It was a successful form of isolation within a hospital setting. At least it will be an excellent start.
I trust the CDC and am confident anyone involved with the CDC and cutting edge hospitals such as John Hopkins are already up to speed on the disease.
No one wants to hear this, but, here again the airlines are going to find a loss of business. Airline passenger compartments are a closed and pressurized system. Jets also travel large distances in a short period of time, so the transportation of Ebola out of Africa is possible.
So far the isolation systems used regarding the people infected are mostly failing. There is a survival rate at this point of about 40%. The demographics of those alive should be evaluated. Young. Old. 20s. 30s. Where is the human body surviving this hemolytic disease.
There are other hemolytic diseases, Ebola is NOT the first scientists have dealt with. Ebola may have different dynamics, but, it is not a stranger to medical science.
Hemolytic anemia (click here) is a disorder in which the red blood cells are destroyed faster than the bone marrow can produce them. The term for destruction of red blood cells is hemolysis. There are two types of hemolytic anemia, intrinsic and extrinsic:...
If the disease is not defeated in Africa and other areas of the world find the infection within their borders, I point to the isolation used by China when SARS was first discovered. It was a successful form of isolation within a hospital setting. At least it will be an excellent start.
July 30, 2014
By Kim Helmgaard and Doug Stanglin
In the United Kingdom, (click here) the Department of Health confirmed Wednesday that a man who flew into Birmingham airport recently from Nigeria via Paris was clear of the virus despite saying he felt feverish.By Kim Helmgaard and Doug Stanglin
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who chaired an emergency meeting Wednesday on Ebola with health experts, scientists and other ministers, said "the issue is about the possibility of somebody who has contracted the disease in Africa getting sick here."
"It is not about the disease spreading in the UK because frankly we have different standards of infection control procedure that would make that most unlikely," he told reporters, according to the BBC.
Two American medical missionaries working with Ebola patients in Liberia have been diagnosed with the virus.
Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, is medical director of the Ebola care center run by Samaritan's Purse on the outskirts of the Liberian capital of Monrovia, and Nancy Writebol had been disinfecting doctors and nurses working with Ebola patients.
A statement by the North Carolina-based group said both showed "slight improvement" in the past 24 hours but remain in serious condition....
...In Sierra Leone, Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor leading the fighting against the Ebola outbreak in that country, died from the virus on Tuesday, the country's chief medical officer said, the Daily Mail reports.
The best way at this point to limit the exposure of MEDICAL MISSIONS is to limit the people entering Africa. Medical missions need to think this through. If these are religious missions, the 'idea' God will protect them is not necessarily valid. The practices of anything other than PROFOUND AND PROVEN isolation and excellent practices WRITTEN by those of authority within the WHO is simply wrong. It is wrong to not place a life in the hands of any other authority than the WHO!
I realize there are many religious practices around the world and they all have their success stories, however, this disease is too dangerous to dismiss the practice of excellent isolation. Other religious practices can be accommodated outside the practice of isolation to enhance the emotional status of those infected, however, any practice that compromises isolation should never be accommodated. No sabotaging the systems that have worked and/or continue to work.
I am confident one of the aspects of this microbe the CDC and WHO will be looking at is any species mutation. Mutation can also inhibit the spread of the disease, it does not always mean the microb has gotten worse.
I am also wondering what co-morbidities the victims may have had INCLUDING other infections and/or disease. Africa also has a large AIDS/HIV population. People with healthy immune systems have died, but, is EBOLA creating an internal body environment that ALLOWS the OPPORTUNITY of other disease that contributes to the hemolytic qualities and/or death.
...In Sierra Leone, Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor leading the fighting against the Ebola outbreak in that country, died from the virus on Tuesday, the country's chief medical officer said, the Daily Mail reports.
The best way at this point to limit the exposure of MEDICAL MISSIONS is to limit the people entering Africa. Medical missions need to think this through. If these are religious missions, the 'idea' God will protect them is not necessarily valid. The practices of anything other than PROFOUND AND PROVEN isolation and excellent practices WRITTEN by those of authority within the WHO is simply wrong. It is wrong to not place a life in the hands of any other authority than the WHO!
I realize there are many religious practices around the world and they all have their success stories, however, this disease is too dangerous to dismiss the practice of excellent isolation. Other religious practices can be accommodated outside the practice of isolation to enhance the emotional status of those infected, however, any practice that compromises isolation should never be accommodated. No sabotaging the systems that have worked and/or continue to work.
I am confident one of the aspects of this microbe the CDC and WHO will be looking at is any species mutation. Mutation can also inhibit the spread of the disease, it does not always mean the microb has gotten worse.
I am also wondering what co-morbidities the victims may have had INCLUDING other infections and/or disease. Africa also has a large AIDS/HIV population. People with healthy immune systems have died, but, is EBOLA creating an internal body environment that ALLOWS the OPPORTUNITY of other disease that contributes to the hemolytic qualities and/or death.
