Ebola Outbreak of 2014

Damn... :(

Second healthcare worker at Dallas hospital tests positive for Ebola

On Sunday, officials confirmed that 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham had tested positive for the virus. More than 70 people who may have had contact with Duncan at the hospital were being monitored. Officials have said they don't know how Pham became infected. But the second case pointed to lapses beyond how one individual may have donned and removed personal protective garb.

News of the latest positive test comes one day after the largest U.S. nurses' union charged that Duncan' caregivers worked for days without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols.

A statement from National Nurses United also says Thomas Eric Duncan was left in an open area of an emergency room for hours.

A spokesman for the group says nurses were forced to use medical tape to secure openings in their flimsy garments. It's said that the patient had explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting.
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This backs up what I earlier said about staying away from this hospital.

I hope and assume that the nurses contracted the disease pre PPE.

News of the latest positive test comes one day after the largest U.S. nurses' union charged that Duncan' caregivers worked for days without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols.

A statement from National Nurses United also says Thomas Eric Duncan was left in an open area of an emergency room for hours.

A spokesman for the group says nurses were forced to use medical tape to secure openings in their flimsy garments. It's said that the patient had explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting.

In a conference call with reporters executive director RoseAnn DeMoro says the allegations are based on revelations from "a few" nurses and that the claims were vetted.

The nurses also said that Duncan's lab samples were allowed to travel through the hospital's pneumatic tubes, opening the possibility of contaminating the specimen delivery system. The nurses also alleged that hazardous waste was allowed to pile up to the ceiling.

A hospital spokesman for told the Associated Press that the facility had not received similar complaints.
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pardus said:
This backs up what I earlier said about staying away from this hospital.

I hope and assume that the nurses contracted the disease pre PPE.
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I was just talking to @policemedic about this. IMHO the hospital released a "don't panic cuz the nurse screwed up" press release to keep from having to say, "Hmmm, we don't have a clue how this happened. Maybe the protocol doesn't work."
 
So, are we supposed to be comforted by the idea that this merely spread as a result of incompetence?
 
I don't get the don't panic thing. I am not freaking out at all I just don't trust anyone. All we need is one person infected that does not go to the hospital and it will spread.
 
Frontier Airline is saying they've cleaned the plane twice.

Still not getting on planes for the moment.:ack:
 
If I was in nurse #2's shoes, I would have voluntarily canceled my flight, so as to minimize any unnecessary exposure to the civilian population until I was certain that I wasn't going to come down with it during my travels (the key words being "up to" 21 day incubation). Then again, I'm just panicking aren't I?
 
racing_kitty said:
If I was in nurse #2's shoes, I would have voluntarily canceled my flight, so as to minimize any unnecessary exposure to the civilian population until I was certain that I wasn't going to come down with it during my travels (the key words being "up to" 21 day incubation). Then again, I'm just panicking aren't I?
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She could have called Frontier and explained the situation, or gone to a hospital in Cleveland once she started running a fever.
This is going to have serious personal liberty ramifications, for all of us.
 

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