Monday Moring Quarterbacking
It is very easy to look at a situation after things happen
and place blame. That is not my intent of understanding what is going on. I do believe in looking at things from a
rather simplistic point of view. Ebola
virus disease (EVD) according to the World
Health Organization is formerly known as Ebola Hemorrhagic fever.
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The Virus
is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population in
human to human transmission.
·
The
average EVD case fatality is around 50% Case Fatality rates have varied from 25% to
90% in past outbreaks.
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There are
currently no licensed Ebola vaccines but two(2) potential candidates are
undergoing evaluation.
Ebola gets its name from a 1976 outbreak in a village near
the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to the WHO the Ebola virus is difficult to distinguish
from other infectious diseases such as
malaria, typhoid fever and meningitis.
While I was driving the children this morning I heard Peter
Brock radio talk host say that the CDC has issued a statement regarding about
the new infection of a nurse. According
to the CDC “There was a break in protocol.”
According to Fox News there are trainings and standards that must be
adhered to. Well According to the CDC
there is a document that explains how to control those virus infections.
Infection
Control for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers In the African Health Care Setting. Developed
and written by Ethleen Llyod M.S. Helen Perry, M.A. Liliien Yang, M.S. written
in 1998.
So now my question is which procedures were broken and did
the Nurse test positive for the virus? Was the hospital following the CDC/WHO
guidelines?
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