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If it becomes an epidemic worldwide would it be better to get it early while the drugs to treat the symptoms are more available or later when maybe more experience could lead to better treatment?
They said that as of 2014 there is no vaccine and the treatment is non-invasive and just mostly making the patient as comfortable as possible. That 50-90% spread is really scary, but it's supposedly not easy to contract. I haven't seen a lot of news coverage about this ebola outbreak, but coverage seems to increase by the day. Today, I heard on the news that an American infected with ebola is flying in for treatment in Atlanta, I think.
Emory University has a hospital wing specially fitted out for severe contagious cases. It's close to the CDC for monitoring. The patients will be flown in on planes with special isolation units aboard. Since you need to have very close contact with body fluids to get it, it would seem to be safe.
I don't think it's a good idea to bring the infected people back to the U.S. They should have tried to treat them where they were.
Ebola is not something anyone would want to get. It's very bad, quite nasty and disgusting.
I would think bodily fluids like blood is one way the two Americans were infected.
I don't think it's a good idea to bring the infected people back to the U.S. They should have tried to treat them where they were.
Ebola is not something anyone would want to get. It's very bad, quite nasty and disgusting.
I would think bodily fluids like blood is one way the two Americans were infected.
they are or were flown back in a special hospital type airplane with everything as close to 100% sterile as can be and are now (I think) in the special wing at Emory Hospital. I am glad we brought them back, this is the humane thing to do and they are Americans for heavens sake. All we can do, is hope they survive and there is no outbreak here. Remember not only are they Americans, but they were in another country trying to help others.
I don't think it's a good idea to bring the infected people back to the U.S. They should have tried to treat them where they were.
Ebola is not something anyone would want to get. It's very bad, quite nasty and disgusting.
I would think bodily fluids like blood is one way the two Americans were infected.
Tell me, if it were your family member infected and being treated in a third world country you would be OK with them being "treated where they were?"
Actually diseases which quickly make people extremely sick and kill them are not very good at spreading. The people who need to do the "spreading" are too sick or dead! Think about it!
Now something like the flu... people can still get around to spread it to other people. Much more likely to spread.
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