Maybe if the Center for Disease Control had been focused on controlling infectious diseases... In my opinion, we need to figure out how to control infectious diseases cheaper so it becomes standard practice combined with a a fast and inexpensive test for Ebola. There's probably overreaction to Ebola in the US, but hospitals need better control of infections in general. Hospitals already have problems with patients getting various infections in hospitals. I had surgery at a surgical center next door to Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The reason that surgical center exists is so patients with scheduled elective surgery are not exposed to sick people at the main hospital.

A fast test for Ebola would greatly improve containment of the disease. Imagine if Thomas Eric Duncan had been tested for Ebola when he first appeared at the hospital. At that point he was healthy enough to travel to a hospital that could handle Ebola and the number of people potentially exposed was smaller. He could have been immediately isolated with a smaller number of medical staff potentially exposed.

Apparently Obamacare didn't do enough damage, now he is trying to bankrupt the system.

and as ebola takes the main stage, and main stream media can't do two stories at one time, what is going on with enterovirus D68 with reported 5 deaths, of children, many cases of people infected and infection hapening in 44 states. which seems to correlate very well with illegals being shipped to all fifty states with nobody being warned, and with people being informed that illegals had diseases that should have kept them in a quarantine before being so PC kind, and so PC evil to American children, especially the 5 dead ones at current time.s

It's easy to overreact, but this is troubling. Exactly how does one in a Hazmat suit contract the virus? By taking off the suit? It's understable. The outside of the suit comes in contact with infected bodily fluids, blood, sweat, tears, whatever, and thus becomes infected, and the doctor or nurse, while taking off the suit, wipes his or her face and thus becomes infected as well. That suggests the virus is for more easily transmitted and contagious than is being let on.

But it's not just Ebola. Numerous diseases, most of which had been erradicated in this country decades ago and some of which had never been in this country before, have appeared in just the last few years.

Here's the thing. You're worried about Ebola mutating into an airborne virus? Any one of these germs can mutate and develop drug resistance. What if influenza mutates and develops an immunity to flu shots? The first outbreak of influenza in the early 1900s killed over 50 million people in a matter of months. Influenza still kills over 30,000 people a year to this day, and that's in this country alone. Imagine if it developed an immunity to the vaccine.

We develop an antibiotic or a vaccine. The more the germ or virus is exposed to those, the sooner it mutates and develops immunity to them. It could take months, even years, to develop a new antibiotic or vaccine, at tremendous cost. And after how many dead?

The hospital administrator is exactly correct. These special precautions, and the equipment required, just to deal with Ebola will bankrupt hospitals across the country, especially in small towns. How are they supposed to afford that, when they're dealing with outbreaks of several other diseases, some of which they're never encountered before and don't know how to treat? They can't. And then what? Ashes, ashes, we all fall down?

The real problem here is the utter failure of the federal government to enforce immigration law, and the fault for that falls on both parties. The first purpose of immigration policy is disease control. The American people need to wake up and smell the coffee, because it might be the last thing they smell before their kids come home from school with an infectious disease.

Good news for the Oblivious Hospital Administrator from California: when you're dead from ebola, you don't have to worry about having a bankrupt hospital!

It's now flu and cold season which has the same initial symptoms. Lots of ways to overreact and undereact to this threat. If ebola truely breaks out in the US, we'll quickly be overwhelmed and our government won't save us; can't save us. No way to tell which way this is going at this time. It's going to be a truely scary Halloween and possibly a bummer of a Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Time to start making serious plans to prepare to protect yourself and your family. Get those flu and pneumonia shots asap. Wash hands frequently, etc. Be ready to remove your kids from school. Personally I'd remove them now; schools and Kids are germ magnets. Try home schooling them until this ebola threat hopefully goes away. Avoid going out in public unless you have to. If taking public transportation wear a mask and gloves. Clean your outer garments and gloves etc. including your house often and carefully. Get bleach. Some have suggested UV lamps kill viruses including ebola. Perhaps someone can confirm this. If you develop a fever get it checked out asap. In the mean time isolate yourself from your family until your fever is confirmed not to be ebola. Yeah it looks and is paranoid but better paranoid than contracting this deadly disease and spreading it to your family and friends.

It's UV-C wavelength that has the germicidal properties, so that old grrovy black light from the 70's won't do you any good. (I know...bummer man!)

Then there is a time component on how long and what strength the viruses have to be exposed to.

Already done my homework on this. Frankly, you're probably better off with a pump sprayer and a few dozen gallons of bleach or pool chlorine tabs dissolved in a plastic drum of water.

There's a student nurse out in Liberia who succesfully cared for 3 out of 4 of her family with little more than plastic trash bags, duct tape and a cell phone...truly a phenomenal and heroic effort, and one that beat the Ebola odds in that she won a 75% survival rate.

This is what happens when you take idiots who's only qualification is that they are really good donation bundlers and reward them with positions that were once held by highly qualified experts.

We are being ruled by an ineptrocracy.

Liberal news organizations get to create and ride the wave of panic.
Liberal enviros get to cheer as more people die, thus reducing carbon emissions.
Liberal politicians get to spend billions while expanding gov't control.
And finally, the Democrats may try to cancel the upcoming election, because, you know, EBOLA!
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So much wrong here that it would take a book. For starters, just the kidney shutdown means dialysis. These patients cost mega dollars, and the need to have double staff in order to follow procedure for donning and removal of the gown, gloves, etc is a burden on the admitting hospital. Plus, the outlying smaller hospitals can't possibly take this on. The docs in our city are getting nervous - and everyone of them does NOT understand the lack of a travel ban. I guess the hope and change is about to take another dive.

Better call your local school board and ask them if they are making contingency plans for a pediatric Ebola epidemic.

In fact, you should call your Governor too.

These are all what the government bureaucrats call "stakeholders" when the epidemic is imported into our nation.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/09/19/how-virginia-suburb-became-ebola-epicenter/

Exsqueeze me, but I must have missed the part where it said what those 20 people in the ICU are supposed to do for an ebola patient that helps.

I suppose all 20 can add charges to his bill, but that's about it.

Even if they do a transfusion, that takes one guy in the ICU and one guy in the lab, and a plebotomist to get the blood in the first place. Whole thing should take about two hours?

All the others can do is wipe up, so why waste an ICU room?