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2014-11-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Doctor with Ebola Coming to U.S. for Care

[AnNahar] A surgeon working in West Africa's Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a person in the federal government with direct knowledge of the case.

The surgeon, Dr. Martin Salia, will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the person said. A Sierra Leone citizen, the 44-year-old Salia lives in Maryland and is a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to the person, who was not authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity

The doctor will be the third Ebola patient at the Omaha hospital and the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. The last, Dr. Craig Spencer, was released from a New York hospital on Tuesday

In a statement Thursday, the Nebraska Medical Center said it had no official confirmation that it would be treating another patient, but that an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone would be evaluated for possible transport to the hospital. The patient would arrive Saturday afternoon.

Salia is a general surgeon who had been working at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown, according to the person familiar with the case. He came down with symptoms of Ebola on Nov. 6 but test results were negative for the virus. He was tested again on Monday, and he tested positive. Salia is in stable, pH balanced condition at an Ebola treatment center in Freetown. It wasn't clear whether he had been involved in the care of Ebola patients.

Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year. The disease has killed more than 5,000 people, mostly in Sierra Leona, Guinea and Liberia.

The State Department said in a statement late Thursday, that along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it had been in touch with the Maryland wife of an unidentified Ebola patient about transferring him to the Nebraska Medical Center for care.

The hospital in Omaha is one of four U.S. hospitals with specialized treatment units for people with highly dangerous infectious diseases. It was chosen for the latest patient because workers at units at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital and the National Institutes of Health near Washington are still in a 21-day monitoring period.

Those two hospitals treated two Dallas nurses who were infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola shortly after arriving in the U.S. and later died.

The other eight Ebola patients in the U.S. recovered, including the nurses. Five were American aid workers who became infected in West Africa while helping care for patients there; one was a video journalist.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Ebola patient in Nebraska "extremely ill"
OMAHA, Neb. — A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone was in extremely critical condition Sunday at a Nebraska hospital, his doctors said.

Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, arrived in Omaha on Saturday to be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit that has successfully treated two other Ebola patients this fall.

Salia is "extremely ill," said Dr. Phil Smith, who is helping oversee Salia's treatment. The 44-year-old Salia might be more ill than the first Ebola patients successfully treated in the United States, according to the hospital.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-11-16 18:19|| 2014-11-16 18:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Discussing this with MRS. Ret. the other night and I wanted to know why is it necessary to send known carriers to all different hospitals for treatment; wouldn't the logistics and hazards involved mandate using the same location(s), rather than expose entirely new medical populations to this disease?
She thinks its for training, because in a 'drill,' everybody walks through the motions, but if its the real thing people step up and do it right.
Maybe I'm cynical, but if a Navy ship screws up a real General Quarters or a fire ( USS Forresttal comes to mind) the damage is isolated to that ship. You bring an infected person into a metro area and if you do not have a good quarantine process ( and voluntary so far isn't getting it) then you could unleash that into millions of folks.
This just seems nuts to me.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-11-16 19:41|| 2014-11-16 19:41|| Front Page Top

#3 When was the last time some poor bastid in Peoria got sick and a foreign country hauled his arse away to a fancy hospital in Switzerland for expensive treatment ?

WTF over...?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-16 19:45|| 2014-11-16 19:45|| Front Page Top

#4 "Salia is 'extremely ill'"

He has Ebola - what was your first clue?

Posted by Barbara 2014-11-16 21:23|| 2014-11-16 21:23|| Front Page Top

#5 why is it necessary to send known carriers to all different hospitals for treatment; wouldn't the logistics and hazards involved mandate using the same location(s), rather than expose entirely new medical populations to this disease?

Don't recall where I saw it, but somebody mentioned that a single Ebola patient tended to swamp the resources of typical hospital.

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-16 23:16|| 2014-11-16 23:16|| Front Page Top

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