18 October 2014
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Well Good
and Patient Reader . . .
Shall I just get started? Shall I just Dive In?
Splendid!
What the Unholy Fuck is going
on with Ebola? I can’t remember the
exact blog posting . . . there are well over 30K words in the CFF blog, but if
I do remember correctly, it was somewhere back in April when I first mentioned
Ebola. You’re Welcome.
So if a guy like me can begin
the (mono?) dialogue of hemorrhagic fever, why can’t the health organizations
of the world do the same?
The CDCP in Atlanta and the WHO in Geneva . . . Hey, Nice Digs!
Sure, ok .
. . those of you who have been here a while know that I have a strong medical
background and I tend to keep abreast
(ahem) of these things, but I am not the
CDCp, nor am I with the World Health Organization. Who?
No, Yes.
Just a few days ago we (America)
decided that we would start screening passengers for Ebola if they came from
West Africa- the region hit hardest by the current epidemic. Good thing we got such a rapid handle on the
problem . . . only took us what, four months?
Experts out there have been
warning us for months that numbers will increase exponentially- up to ten
thousand new cases a week. Back on 06
September the numbers were projected to be 500 new cases a week in a short
matter of time.
Here’s what the BBC is
reporting:
“ . . . Ms Vinson later
contacted the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to inform it
she was travelling on a plane on Monday - Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from
Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth.
She reported a temperature of
37.5C (99.5F) and CDC director Thomas Frieden said she should not have
travelled on a commercial flight.
However,
another health official told the New York Times later that Ms Vinson was not
prevented from flying because the temperature was mildly elevated and was in a
category not covered by the CDC.
"I don't think we actually
said she could fly, but they didn't tell her she couldn't fly," the
official told the Times. "She called us... I really think this one is on
us."
Officials are trying to trace
all 132 passengers but insist that as Ms Vinson did not have a fever, the risk
to "any around that individual on the plane would have been extremely
low".
Ms Vinson has now been
transferred to hospital in Atlanta . . .” (sic)
The article can be found at
this link:
Jesus H. Christ, Patient Reader
. . .
We have patients telling those
in the know they may have Ebola, and we’re still
fumbling like the St. Louis Rams . . . sorry Tony . . .
Thomas Duncan, Index Patient,
Dallas, TX, explained to the nurse in the ER that he had just come from
Liberia. You know . . . Liberia!
And as I blogged last time, they sent him home with Ebola, a fever,
and some antibiotics. When he came back
with, “. . . projectile vomiting and uncontrollable diarrhea,” he was looked at
more closely.
Now there are two nurses who
treated him infected with the disease.
Patient Reader, I don’t want to
cause any trouble- don’t want to create any panic, here . . . but if we don’t
get our, er, shit together, then we could have a serious situation on our
unwashed hands.
Dining Culture
To Be Continued . . .
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