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janaz

Dallas hospital isolates possible Ebola patient

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said the patient was admitted based on symptoms and "recent travel history"

Walt Zwirko, WFAA 9:44 p.m. CDT September 29, 2014
[link to www.wfaa.com]

DALLAS — A Dallas hospital is holding a patient in "strict isolation" as that person is evaluated for possible exposure to the deadly Ebola virus.

In a statement issued Tuesday night, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said the patient was admitted based on symptoms and "recent travel history."

The hospital, located at Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane in Northeast Dallas, said it is complying with all recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and the Texas Department of Health to ensure the safety of other patients and medical staff.

Preliminary results of tests on the patient are expected from the CDC on Tuesday.

pixie

Fresh Ebola case investigated in Sweden

Published: 29 Sep 2014 18:31 GMT+02:00
Updated: 29 Sep 2014 18:31 GMT+02:00
[link to www.thelocal.se]

Doctors in Stockholm are checking a patient suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus.

The patient is understood to be at least the fifth case investigated in Sweden since the virus started spreading rapidly in Africa earlier this year.

They have been been transferred to the infectious diseases clinic at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, according to news agency TT.

"Despite the fact that there were very low suspicions, we decided to take the test. We will get the answer within a day," Åke Örtqvist, spokesperson for doctors dealing with infectious diseases in the Stockholm region.

What did the poster in 2000 called Titor say? "Stupidity and greed are fairly predictable for a period of time."

It would seem the reactions of the US and international community are driven by both stupidity and greed.

The people who developed and loosed this plague apparently didn't have any difficulties
with 'morals' or ethics, either...

pixie

Air France flies to Ebola-hit Guinea out of solidarity: Hollande

SEP 30, 2014
[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

PARIS – Air France is maintaining its flights to Ebola-hit Guinea as a sign of France’s “solidarity,” President Francois Hollande said Monday as he hosted a visit by Guinea’s President Alpha Conde.

International help needed to be ramped up for Guinea and other West African nations struggling with the deadly epidemic, which has killed more than 3,000 people since the start of the year, the French leader said.

At the same time, those countries suffering “should not be isolated and should remain open,” he said.

“That is why Air France continues to work” by maintaining flights to Guinea’s capital Conakry, Hollande said.

Air France, however, in August suspended its services to neighboring Sierra Leone, which is also beset by the virus.

Ebola treatment with ZMapp cocktail expected in 2015

'We're moving heaven and earth to scale up manufacturing,' CEO says

CBC News Posted: Sep 29, 2014 3:05 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 29, 2014 5:34 PM ET
[link to www.cbc.ca]

A Toronto-based company that is commercializing the experimental ZMapp treatment for people infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa hopes to scale up manufacturing to produce tens of thousands of doses next year.

Jeffrey Turner, president and CEO of Defyrus, discussed the Ebola outbreak and ZMapp’s potential role on Monday during a web seminar as part of National Biotech Week.

ZMapp is a blend of three monoclonal antibodies — chemicals that block the Ebola virus from invading a cell. Monoclonal antibodies are engineered in a lab to mimic how our immune systems naturally respond.

"Initially, the concept was we needed couple of hundred courses of therapy. Clearly we need more than that," Turner said.

Tens of thousands of doses are likely needed.

"Is it going to happen next year? Probably. We're moving heaven and earth to scale up manufacturing and produce those types of numbers in 2015."

Comment: There is no proof that it even works.

They better well be exceeding the CDC recommendations of basic PPE, and in moon-suits....or the battle is already lost.

pixie

Readying for Ebola: How U.S. Hospitals Are Gearing Up

SEP 29, 2014 01:45 PM ET // BY ERIC NIILER
[link to news.discovery.com]

Federal health-care officials, hospital administrators and emergency-care doctors are preparing for the first cases of Ebola here in the United States. Experts say it's not a question of if, but rather when it will happen.

The good news is that the public health infrastructure in the United States -- from the epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control to the weekend physician at the local doc-in-a-box -- has been mobilized for this very eventuality. Many hospitals, even those in many rural areas, are prepared with virus-proof protective gear and isolation units for sick patients.

The bad news is that the disease continues to grow unabated in West Africa, and that containing the spread is getting tougher every day.

"We will see cases," said Alessandro Vespignani, a physics professor at Northeastern University who has developed a biological model of the worldwide spread of Ebola based on current infection rates, population trends and air traffic from the affected zone. "The good news from our modeling is the size of the outbreak is very limited. Even in the worse case, the size of the outbreak in the United States is just two or three individuals."

Comment: Bah!

Thanks I will try that! Also, thanks for all the hard work you guys are doing! I am not as good/knowledgeable as you guys but there are many of us who read this every day and rely on what y'all have found and share!

monotreme

CDC issues Ebola guidelines for U.S. funeral homes
[link to www.kfvs12.com]
Sep 29, 2014 Jocelyn Connell

CBS46 News has confirmed the Centers for Disease Control has issued guidelines to U.S. funeral homes on how to handle the remains of Ebola patients. If the outbreak of the potentially deadly virus is in West Africa, why are funeral homes in America being given guidelines?

Hollow Words and an Exponential Horror

Obama called the world to action against Ebola, but most countries are only paying lip service to the coming catastrophe.

BY LAURIE GARRETT
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
[link to www.foreignpolicy.com]

Comment: Read. Consider a lot of bolding and red highlights.

pixie

CDC POSTS EBOLA GUIDELINES FOR EMS

09/29/2014
By Mary Jane Dittmar
[link to www.fireengineering.com]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has posted Interim Guidance for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems and 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for Management of Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Virus Disease in the United States.

The information is for managers of 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), emergency medical service (EMS) agencies, EMS systems, law enforcement agencies, fire service agencies, and individual EMS providers (including emergency medical technicians (EMTs), paramedics, and any other medical first responders. EMS responders are offered guidance in handling inquiries, responding to patients with suspected Ebola symptoms, and keeping workers safe.

[snip]

Updates will be posted as needed on the [link to www.cdc.gov] The information contained in this document is intended to complement existing guidance for healthcare personnel, Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has increased the possibility of patients with Ebola traveling from the affected countries to the United States.1 Ebola is an often-fatal disease; be careful when coming in direct contact with a recent traveler from a country with an Ebola outbreak who has symptoms of Ebola. Consider Ebola in anyone with fever who has traveled to, or lived in, an area where Ebola is present. 2 The incubation period for Ebola, from exposure to the appearance of signs or symptoms, ranges from 2 to 21 days (most commonly 8-10 days). Consider any Ebola patient with signs or symptoms infectious. Ebola patients without symptoms are not contagious. To prevent Ebola, avoid exposure to blood or body fluids of infected patients through contact with skin; mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, or mouth; or injuries with contaminated needles or other sharp objects.

Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel and other emergency services staff have a vital role in responding to requests for help, triaging patients, and providing emergency treatment to patients. Unlike patient care in the controlled environment of a hospital or other fixed medical facility, EMS patient care before getting to a hospital is provided in an uncontrolled environment. This setting is often confined to a very small space and frequently requires rapid medical decision-making and interventions with limited information. EMS personnel are frequently unable to determine the patient history before having to administer emergency care.

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. If the patient has symptoms of Ebola, ask the patient about risk factors within the past three weeks before the onset of symptoms. {and you will get an honest answer what percentage of the time?}
- Based on the presence of symptoms and risk factors, put on or continue to wear appropriate PPE and follow the scene safety guidelines for suspected case of Ebola.
- If there are no risk factors, proceed with normal EMS care.


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Infection Control

You can safely manage a patient with suspected or confirmed Ebola by following recommended isolation and infection-control procedures, including standard, contact, and droplet precautions. Pay particular attention to protecting mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth from splashes of infectious material or self-inoculation from soiled gloves.

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During prehospital resuscitation procedures (intubation, open suctioning of airways, cardiopulmonary resuscitation), do the following:

- In addition to donning the recommended PPE, add respiratory protection that is at least as protective as a National Institute for Occupational and Safety Health (NIOSH) Administration -certified fit-tested N95 filtering face piece respirator or higher instead of a face mask.
- Consider additional PPE

Any of you suckholes wanna come up here and knock me off?

Good man...complete your preps while you still have time.
Otherwise, you might catch Elf-bola...

Ebola: Bleeding Less Common but More Deadly

By Lindsey Dow
September 29, 2014.
[link to guardian.com]

Although bleeding is generally considered one of the most tell-tale signs of Ebola, recent data collected on patients in West Africa suggest that bleeding is less common but more deadly, at least with the strain in West Africa. The report, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, contains data on 1,415 Ebola patients from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, with an onset of symptoms as recent as August 17.

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Among the symptoms, bleeding amongst patients was less common than previously reported outbreaks, but seemingly increases the risk of death from Ebola. Before the current outbreak in West Africa, approximately 50 percent of those infected with Ebola reportedly experienced unexplained bleeding of some sort. As a result, when the mysterious disease going around in West Africa was finally discovered to be Ebola, locals were told to watch out for a number of symptoms, but most notably bleeding. However, since bleeding is less common in patients in West Africa affected by the Ebola outbreak, many did not feel a need to seek treatment.

This contributed to the spread of Ebola that has now become an epidemic in West Africa. Only 18 percent of Ebola patients sampled in the West Africa outbreak experienced unexplained bleeding. About 83 percent of those who did died compared to the 71 percent of patients who did not experience unexplained bleeding who did not survive. In addition, 20 percent of the sampled Ebola patients who died suffered from unexplained bleeding, compared to approximately 12 percent of patients who recovered from the disease.

The risk of death is especially prevalent in Ebola patients who experience blood in their urine and bleed from areas such as the gums, injection site, nose and underneath the skin. While only 1 percent of patients experienced blood in their urine, 90 percent died. The death rate is similar for those who bleed from their gums, injection site and nose. Only 2 percent of patients sampled experienced bleeding from the gums, but 95 percent of them died. The same is true for those who experienced bleeding at the injection site. Only 2 percent of the patients experienced bleeding from the nose, but 94 percent died. Bleeding underneath the skin, while one of the most well-known symptoms, in part due to the countless photos published of Ebola patients who experience this, was the least common symptom of all. Less than 1 percent of the Ebola patients sampled experienced bleeding underneath the skin, but all who did died.

Overall, the data suggests that bleeding, while apparently less common in West Africa than previous outbreaks, increases the risk of death from Ebola by a minimum of 10 percent. While only one in six Ebola patients in West Africa will experience unexplained bleeding, more than eight out of 10 patients who suffer from it will die. This is compared to approximately seven out of 10 patients who do not. The data suggests that Ebola patients in West Africa that experience unexplained bleeding appear to have a worse prognosis than those who do not. It also suggests that while unexplained bleeding is a symptom of Ebola, it is not the most common one among patients in West Africa, and thus is not the only sign to watch out for.

Yes, please do...

Ebola case suspected at Dallas hospital; patient put in isolation

By Associated Press
on September 29, 2014 at 10:20 PM, updated September 29, 2014 at 10:46 PM
[link to www.cleveland.com]

DALLAS -- A patient in a Dallas hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in strict isolation with test results pending, hospital officials said Monday.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a statement Monday that the patient's symptoms and recent travel indicated a case of Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected a handful of Americans who have traveled to that region.

Preliminary test results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to come back Tuesday.

Hospital spokeswoman Candace White would not answer any questions about the patient or where the patient had visited.

North Texas Hospital Evaluating Patient For Potential Ebola Exposure

September 29, 2014 9:06 PM
[link to dfw.cbslocal.com]

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas hospital has a patient in isolation as they evaluate them for potential exposure to the Ebola virus.
Officials with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas released the following statement Monday night:

“Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has admitted a patient into strict isolation to be evaluated for potential Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) based on the patient’s symptoms and recent travel history. The hospital is following all Centers for Disease Control and Texas Department of Heath recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, hospital staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors. The CDC anticipates preliminary results tomorrow.”

It is unclear what specific symptoms the patient has or what the patient’s travel history was.

CBS 11 News spoke with Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson who confirmed the patient had been in an area where the Ebola virus exists. “Looking at the travel history is the first indicator and then the next step is [treatment or non-treatment] once we get lab results,” he said.

Thompson definitely felt that there should be a heightened sense of awareness in North Texas, based on what has happened internationally. “With what we’ve seen in the media and how deadly the Ebola virus is, it is a concern.”

Thompson stressed that there are certain procedures that will be followed if tests for the ptient come back positive. “We [health professionals] all had been planning to look at what our next steps are if there is a confirmed case.

Again, we have to do the public health follow up, to see what contacts… where this individual has gone since they arrived here in Dallas. There are a number of things that have to be looked at.”

As far as possible infection to others here in North Texas Thompson said, “The key point is, if there’s been no transmission, blood, secretion, any type of bodily fluids by the infected person to someone else, then that risk is low to none.”

The PPE they're wearing only weighs about 3.5 lbs per full suit. So that's 60,000 suits in a single shipment, by a single aid group. And they're still yelling that it's nowhere near enough...

Any Questions?

Amateurs think tactics;
Professionals think logistics;
and the seasoned operator has mastered them both...

Thank you!

I can imagine hospitals soon being jammed up - anyone who has symptoms similar to Ebola would kick off a containment procedure.

In the past three years, I've had symptoms that could have been construed as from Ebola a few times. What would happen if I showed up at the emergency room today with those symptoms?

Yes, I got better, thanks.

While ROI = 2.57; and median case length is 18.5 days, then
(30/18.5)*2.57= Monthly_Growth_Factor = 4.17

Supplies are already thinning out. They will be gone quickly, because usage in an outbreak environment is 10X ~ 20X "normal"... i.e. well above what the supply chain can handle for sustained demand. Even a brief peak at 20X will tap the standing supplies dry, like what happened with ammo last December & January.

CRAP...

Flies in the face of Our Dear Leader's happy talk of Ebola being contained.

These are the kind of indicators that will give us an edge in the progression of this.

Next Obama talking point: A "wonder weapon" vaccine on the cusp of being distributed. Just a few more months and it will be ready for all Americans. All Americans enrolled in Obamacare, that is.

"Oh, crap...."



An example of being in POOPCON-1.

Funny how some things never change, huh??

pathfinder

10 Nigerian pilgrims die in Mecca – Hajj Commission

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Ten Nigerians in Saudi Arabia to perform the Islamic hajj rites have been confirmed dead, the Coordinator of the National Hajj Commission in Mecca, Aliyu Tanko, said on Monday.

Mr. Tanko said at least 50,000 Nigerian pilgrims have so far arrived Mecca with virtually all them having performed the Umrah rites.

Comment: No details on cause of death. Just a bunch of blathering on about airport checks, and ebola can't get in.

sharon sanders

machine translation

The high incidence of deaths among Egyptian pilgrims to 13 people

Alatnen September 29, 2014 5:47:25 pm - Hits 59



MENA said Major General Shakir Kayal, Assistant Interior Minister for Administrative Affairs, CEO of Hajj Mission Head of Mission of Ag lottery that deaths among Egyptian pilgrims rose to 13 deaths, including seven deaths of pilgrimage tourism and five deaths from Hajj lottery and one case of Ag solidarity. The Kayal told the Middle East News that he does not exist between the deaths of any cases of epidemics at all, stressing the existence of medical follow-up daily to pilgrims Egyptian medical mission, especially for cases of sick and located in hospitals. stressed the existence of full coordination with the Saudi authorities, especially in the medical follow-up for pilgrims Egyptians, praising the cooperation between the three missions for the success of the pilgrimage season this year, and the goal is to the benefit of Haj Egyptian. confirmed Mustafa Abdel Latif and First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism, head of the corporate sector and the general supervisor of pilgrimage tourism, the number of deaths from tourist pilgrims arrived so far to 7 cases 3 of them women and all of them died in Makkah, except the deceased and one was buried in Medina. said that the cause of death of pilgrims seven dating back to natural causes, except for one case due to the fall of the elderly woman from the elevator the hotel and called Yusreya Abdul Samad victor at the age of 65 years fell from the elevators hotel, which reside in the city of Medina and carried the Saudi authorities to investigate to determine the circumstances of the incident. and Deceased others are thought Hussein Mohamed Abu Zeid, 83 year-Shadia Mr. Abdo Ghoneim 52 year-Yusreya Abdul Samad victor 65 years-Ahmed Al-Sayed Awad Sarhan 61 year-Hussein Abdullah Mohammed Barbary 65 years -gamal Helmy Mohamed Abdel Aal 58-year Mahmoud Hassanein Hassan Nofal 70 years was buried in Medina.

[link to elbashayeronline.com]