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Special K

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I'm still following it.....and the hundreds under monitoring here,as well as the patients brought in.

 

the national guard being sent was a interesting development, as is the change in duties.

 

the press seems a lot quieter overall though

Wait, how are you following the patients being monitored here?  As of yesterday, there were 35 in California, but we (Ebola Task Force for the Health Department) aren't even told which county they are from, much less their names...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/20/who-outlines-six-ebola-cases-mali/

 

WHO outlines six Ebola cases in Mali

Grand imam’s travel from Guinea led to five deaths

Mali is now considered an outbreak country and has been included in the list of countries from which traveller's are screened at the 5 US airports.

The bottom line is he did not receive treatment early enough (just like the thousands affected by this outbreak in West Africa).  Very sad that he died and also sad that his wife has to foot the bill for his transport and treatment.  Talk about medical bankruptcy.

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Thugs in Guinea steal blood samples infected with Ebola virus: officials The blood samples had been drawn from a single person and were being transported by a courier who was held up by armed bandits, officials said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/thugs-guinea-steal-blood-samples-ebola-virus-article-1.2019890

 

 

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/mali-records-ebola-case-linked-dead-nurse-145548662.html

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali has recorded a new case of Ebola in the capital Bamako after the friend of a nurse who died of the haemorrhagic fever earlier this month tested positive for the disease, the health ministry said on Saturday.

The nurse contracted the disease after treating an imam from neighbouring Guinea, who died after being incorrectly diagnosed with kidney problems. This allowed Ebola to spread to five other people in the West African nation's second outbreak.

"Of two suspected cases tested, one was negative and the other positive. The latter was placed in an isolation centre for intensive treatment," a statement from the ministry said, adding that another 310 contact cases were being monitored.

 

 

 

http://www.followebola.com/how-spend-21-days-ebola-quarantine-foosball-wifi-troops

 

How to Spend 21 Days in Ebola Quarantine: Foosball, WiFi for Troops By Carlo Angerer

BAUMHOLDER, Germany — Couches, televisions, a pool table and foosball games have been set up at Smith Barracks in rural Germany, ready to be used by soldiers returning from their Ebola-related missions in West Africa.

Instead of returning to their home bases immediately, the service members will be housed and medically supervised for 21 days in a newly established controlled monitoring area, a complex of buildings surrounded by a double fence. It can house about 180 soldiers.

“Our main mission is to keep service members, family members and German neighbors safe,” Col. Scott Murray, commander of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command's 16th Sustainment Brigade, told NBC News.

U.S. military officials said that an Ebola case among those who would be monitored here is highly unlikely but that the quarantine of service members, all considered to be low risk because they had no direct contact to Ebola patients, is done “out of an abundance of caution."

Monitoring will include twice-daily interviews and temperature checks to screen for Ebola symptoms. Soldiers showing symptoms would be evacuated to Landstuhl Medical Center for further testing. If any tested positive for Ebola, they would be flown to the United States for treatment.

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Good news and bad news:

 

Mali seems to have their Ebola situation at least under control if not eliminated (for now).

 

One of the vaccine trials has been "paused" due to people complaining of joint pain, and there seems to be a high amount of fever associated with it (though they don't seem to be worried about that and its low fever apparently).

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http://news.yahoo.com/sierra-leone-ban-christmas-parties-plans-surge-curb-082952734.html

 

"The government is planning to keep people indoors during Christmas through Boxing Day and New Year," said Jarrah Kawusu-Konte, a spokesman for Sierra Leone's president.

He told Reuters that the government would deploy soldiers across the country to enforce the measure, which would include a ban on parties and other gatherings.

"When you have parties, the risks are very high. We are very anxious to break the chain of transmission through parties and gatherings," Kawusu-Konte said. He did not specify the date when the ban would take effect.

EBOLA RESPONSE SURGE

In addition to the ban on gatherings, Sierra Leonean authorities are also planning what they have called a "surge" in their response in and around the capital Freetown, aimed at stemming the increasing rise of Ebola infections.

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-rescues-require-rare-back-to-back-air-ambulance-flights-214504040.html

 

There has been an apparent first in the fight against Ebola this week.

According to flight records, the private jet company contracted by the State Department to transport Ebola patients flew two air ambulances to West Africa on the same day.

Until Wednesday, Phoenix Air had flown only one Ebola-fighting mission at a time. A second Gulfstream jet featuring the ability to treat infectious patients in flight had been held back in case of an emergency with the first aircraft. But last month, the Georgia-based operation finished customizing a third jet to handle the specialized medical equipment.

 

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There appears to be no public flight plan mapping either jet’s departure from Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. Yahoo News asked a Phoenix Air official last month about a noticeable increase in keeping flight information off of databases searchable by the public.

“The only thing I can say is that it's for operational security,” said Dent Thompson, the company’s vice president of operations. “There are a whole lot of things going on in the background, and whatever we do, it is in cooperation with the government and us.”

Of the flight plans that are public, records show Phoenix Air has made at least five trips to West Africa this month.

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Definitely disappointing to see increasing numbers in Sierra Leone these past several days.

 

I'd think one of those jets brought back the patient who was admitted to the NIH last week.  However, I'm not very keyed in on the private flight contracts, though I'm sure things are kept on the DL for security purposes.  I have no problem with that, as long as they give us a heads up when they bring an Ebola patient in, lol.

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especially when they haven't ventured out of the privileged society, you know, boasting about a trust fund in a "minimum wage" thread.

And an LOL on ebola, when they claim to be in the field.

While using a tank to move influenza vaccine, just to be cute, never knowing that using the tank meant keeping it, at taxpayer expense, to be used against the people whenever whoever sees fit.

Just dumb **** pisses me off.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/massachusetts-doctor-cured-ebola-returning-liberia-27636716

 

 

 

Massachusetts Doctor Cured of Ebola Returning to Liberia

 

A Massachusetts doctor cured of Ebola said Tuesday that he's returning toLiberia, the West African country where he contracted the virus, in January to resume working at a medical mission.

Dr. Richard Sacra said that he plans to spend four weeks at ELWA Hospital, a clinic outside Monrovia where he had contracted the deadly virus in August.

Sacra spent weeks in treatment at an Omaha, Nebraska, hospital before returning home on Sept. 25. The University of Massachusetts Medical School faculty member has worked in medical missions in Liberia for more than 20 years, including the North Carolina-based charity SIM, which founded ELWA Hospital.

 

 

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_EBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

BRITISH PATIENT BEING TREATED FOR EBOLA

 

Scottish authorities say a health care worker who has just returned from Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in a Glasgow hospital.

 

The Scottish government says the patient flew to Glasgow via Casablanca and London's Heathrow Airport, arriving late Sunday.

 

The health care worker was admitted to a hospital on Monday morning.The only previous case of the often-fatal disease in Britain was William Pooley, a nurse who contracted the disease while patients in Sierra Leone. He recovered after treatment in London and returned to West Africa.

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well they didn't send it, just the help took the wrong samples.....despite it being clearly labeled and color coded as ebola

 

still the buck stops above,and numerous other oops have occurred

Oops, I didn't read the article that closely as far as senders and retrievers.  Whatever the case, there is no excuse for this this far into the Ebola outbreak.  

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EBOLA_HEALTH_WORKER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

US MEDICAL WORKER EXPOSED TO EBOLA OVERSEAS HEADS TO OMAHA

 

Nebraska medical officials say an American health care provider who experienced high-risk exposure to the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone will be observed at the facility's biocontainment unit in Omaha.

 

Nebraska Medicine says in a release that the unidentified patient will arrive about 2 p.m. CST Sunday aboard a private air ambulance.

 

Phil Smith, M.D., medical director of the facility's biocontainment unit, says the patient "is not ill and is not contagious." He says officials will take "all appropriate precautions."

 

The patient will be observed for possible infection during the 21-day incubation period of the disease, both by monitoring for symptoms and through blood tests.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-16/nurse-treating-ebola-patients-in-sierra-leone-airlifted-to-uk/6021794

Australian nurse treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone airlifted to UK after breaching protection protocols

 

An Australian nurse treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has been airlifted to the United Kingdom after accidentally breaching personal protection protocols.

 

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said the woman was treating patients at the Australian-run Aspen Medical clinic in Sierra Leone.

 

DFAT described it as a low-risk incident and said the woman had not been diagnosed with Ebola.

It said her evacuation was a precautionary measure.

 

However, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she was deeply concerned for the woman's welfare.

 

Late last year the Federal Government committed more than $20 million in funding for the private company to run the 100-bed Ebola treatment clinic in Sierra Leone.

 

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed 8,371 people with more than 21,000 cases identified since December of last year, according to World Health Organisation figures.

 

The vast majority of cases have been in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

 

A total of 838 healthcare workers are known to have contracted the virus and 495 of them had died as of January 4, the WHO has said.

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