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Ebola update
- On Thursday, Emory University Hospital announced its plans to transfer a patient with Ebola to a containment unit within the next several days. However, the Atlanta hospital did not say specifically that that patient was one of the two infected Americans working for Samaritan's Purse in Liberia. Sources confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that a medevac plane with the Centers for Disease Control's aeromedical biological containment system onboard was headed for Liberia. There was no scheduled return time for the medevac plane's return.
- In a press conference Thursday, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden stated that, for a patient who is infected, travel may be unsafe. "There's the potential that actual movement of the patient could do more harm than befit of more advanced, superior care outside the country [of infection]," he said.
- The CDC have not found any evidence that any treatments are effective against Ebola. "There are no proven treatments, no proven vaccines and there is not likely to be one for at least a year, even in the best case scenario," Dr. Frieden said.
Then what's the point of transferring anybody anywhere for treatment?
- For a patient who contracts Ebola and is able to recover, once their blood tests normalize and after they no longer show any symptoms, they no longer need to be in isolation. "It's a viral infection and viral infections generally, eventually clear," Dr. Joseph Rahimian, infectious disease specialist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center, told FoxNews.com.
Except for viral ailments like Hep C and chickenpox, among others, which typically do not clear. Is Ebola well characterized?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-01 |
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