Article

2014-10-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

2nd Ebola-infected nurse declared cured & released from Emory; still possible issues

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 great way for Emory to destroy public trust in medical establishment and the authorities

not be open and frank about the number of cases being treated

then tell people they are being paranoid, panicking, and that ebola is hard to catch - when clearly neither are true.

Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 00:12|| 2014-10-29 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 (Reuters) - Australia became the first developed country on Tuesday to shut its borders to citizens of the countries worst-hit by the West African Ebola outbreak, a move those states said stigmatized healthy people and would make it harder to fight the disease..."Anything that will dissuade foreign trained personnel from coming here to West Africa and joining us on the frontline to fight the fight would be very, very unfortunate," Anthony Banbury, head of the U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission (UNMEER), told Reuters in the Ghanaian capital Accra.

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf urged Australia to reconsider its travel ban..."We desperately need international health workers ... They are really the key to this response,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said.

World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim said the three worst hit countries needed 5,000 overseas health workers at any one time.

"Those health workers cannot work continuously: there needs to be a rotation. So we will need many thousands of health workers over the next months to a year in order to bring this epidemic under control," he said an African Union meeting in Ethiopia. "Right now, I am very much worried where we will find those health workers."

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-29 00:26|| 2014-10-29 00:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Maine: Lawyer for Fort Kent nurse held on Ebola fears says she won’t abide by quarantine
Attorneys for a nurse released from isolation in New Jersey after returning to the U.S. from West Africa say she will not comply with Maine health officials’ requirements that she remain under quarantine at home for 21 days.

Kaci Hickox, who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and shows no symptoms of the virus, agreed to refrain from going out in public for two days, said an attorney.

Early Tuesday evening, Maine Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew noted at a hastily called news conference that the state has the authority to seek a court order to compel quarantine for individuals deemed a public health risk.

She did not address Hickox’s case directly, saying the state has not filed a court order.

Another attorney representing Hickox, New York civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel, said she would contest any potential court order requiring her quarantine at home.

“The conditions that the state of Maine is now requiring Kaci to comply with are unconstitutional and illegal and there is no justification for the state of Maine to infringe on her liberty,” he said.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-29 00:37|| 2014-10-29 00:37|| Front Page Top

#4 US Nobelist in medicine comes out in support of NJ governor Christie's mandatory quarantine.
Dr. Bruce Beutler is currently the Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas — the first U.S. city to treat an Ebola patient and also the first to watch one die from the virus. Dr. Beutler, an American medical doctor and researcher, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2011 for his work researching the cellular subsystem of the body’s overall immune system. In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Beutler reviewed Christie’s new policy of mandatory quarantine for all health care workers exposed to Ebola, and declared: “I favor it.”
“Even if someone is asymptomatic you cannot rely on people to report themselves if they get a fever,” said Dr. Beutler, adding, “You can’t just depend on the goodwill of people to confine the disease like that – even healthcare workers. They behave very irresponsibly.”

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-29 00:53|| 2014-10-29 00:53|| Front Page Top

#5 YES shutting borders, denying visas is the right thing to do, yes, compulsory quarantine is too.

None of that means we can't also send health workers (if any are willing)

My projeections, based on the increase in WHO figures until they stopped in August, say the New Infection rates are as follows:

September:...3375
October:.....7595
November:....17,085
December:....38,440
January:.....86,495
February:....194,615
March:.......487,880

Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 03:47|| 2014-10-29 03:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Kaci Hickox is a particularly arrogant obnoxious speshul snowflake. The rules and common couretsy don't apply to her

Posted by Frank G 2014-10-29 15:43|| 2014-10-29 15:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Frank G - yes Kaci is a douche. But if the Govt reacts properly by legislating so quarantines can be enforced then she will have done us all a favour as an outrider before the storm hits. as long as governments get themselves moving in the right direction that is

Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 20:06|| 2014-10-29 20:06|| Front Page Top

#8 I think effective quarantine laws are already on the books, anon. They're just not being enforced (it's not politically correct).

We used to quarantine people 50 years or so ago; I suspect what's changed is lack of will and PC. >:-(

Posted by Barbara 2014-10-29 21:35|| 2014-10-29 21:35|| Front Page Top

#9 ahh barbara i'm sorry to hear that!

it's so true whatever law gets enforced depends on the political will

Posted by anon1 2014-10-29 23:23|| 2014-10-29 23:23|| Front Page Top

23:56 JosephMendiola
23:54 Skidmark
23:47 JosephMendiola
23:45 JosephMendiola
23:42 anon1
23:42 JosephMendiola
23:35 anon1
23:32 anon1
23:28 anon1
23:28 anon1
23:23 anon1
23:22 anon1
22:47 3dc
22:24 DarthVader
22:02 LouieLouie
22:01 djk
21:56 LouieLouie
21:53 tipover
21:45 LouieLouie
21:44 LouieLouie
21:42 Barbara
21:40 LouieLouie
21:39 Barbara
21:36 Barbara