Ebola outbreak in West Africa

[kentonio]

No, that burning senstation will be the early onsets of ebola. You should seek treatment immediately. Oh no wait, people should stay in the house, that's right, just stay in the house!

[Nikolai]

First Norwegian ebola victim, a female Doctors without borders worker. She is in isolation and is sent to Norway for treatment now.

PS! I'm not worried. Yet.

[SlowwHand]

I know that I'm preaching to the choir, but one can feel no personal worries and still have empathy for their fellow living creatures. For instance, I hope that the liar that took it to Dallas fully recovers, and then he can be prosecuted for reckless endangering of others.

[Nikolai]

Totally in agreement.

Latest news btw: A spanish nurse is sick of ebola. The nurse was treating a spanish priest on one of Spain's best hospitals for infectious diseases...

[Ben Kenobi]

https://www.document.no/2014/10/forste-tilfelle-av-ebola-i-europa/

Gosh. I wonder who was saying that Med-evacs from hot zones were a bad idea. Gee. Can't imagine who would have said that months ago.

[Dauphin]

I know that I'm preaching to the choir, but one can feel no personal worries and still have empathy for their fellow living creatures. For instance, I hope that the liar that took it to Dallas fully recovers, and then he can be prosecuted for reckless endangering of others.

Death penalty.

[Bereta_Eder]

Escaping from ebola just to be sentenced to the electric chair is morbidly hilarious/tragic

[Felch]

but I'm sure someone in dallas has been felched

More of an Austin thing.

[kentonio]

https://www.document.no/2014/10/fors...bola-i-europa/

Gosh. I wonder who was saying that Med-evacs from hot zones were a bad idea. Gee. Can't imagine who would have said that months ago.

Why did you just link to a Norwegian language page? Do you speak Norwegian? It's also bizarre that given there's just been a Norwegian aid worker contracting ebola in Sierra Leone, you'd link to a Norwegian page about a Spanish case.

As for the case you're talking about, the news had this to say..

The decision to bring him to Spain prompted concern among health professionals who said that Spanish hospitals were not adequately equipped to handle the Ebola outbreak.

Amyts, a trade union that represents physicians, called the repatriation of Pajares risky, and its president, Daniel Bernabéu, asked Spanish news agency Efe if “anyone could guarantee 100% that the virus wouldn’t escape”.

Bernabéu compared Spain to the US and pointed out that the Americans have 10 hospitals with the highest level of biosafety possible. Spain, in contrast, has just one suitable hospital with biosafety levels that are much lower.

When we said bringing people back to the US was safe, it's because the US has facilities able to handle that level of risk. It appears Spain do not.

[Ben Kenobi]

When we said bringing people back to the US was safe, it's because the US has facilities able to handle that level of risk. It appears Spain do not.

America set the precedent. All it really takes is one slip up. Had they set up a quarantine zone out of the hot zone (as containment would dictate they should), it would not have happened.

[kentonio]

America set the precedent. All it really takes is one slip up. Had they set up a quarantine zone out of the hot zone (as containment would dictate they should), it would not have happened.

You think Spain did it because 'America did, so **** it why not'? You think that's how health professionals carry out their decision making?

[DaShi]

No surprise that a Dallas hospital completely ****ed up this one.

[Sava]

[Ben Kenobi]

And now there's 22 in quarantine in Spain. Still think Medevacs are a good idea?

[Dinner]

Given that only one of them has the disease and the others are just being monitored as a precaution... Yes.