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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (146236)	10/17/2014 4:24:42 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By ChinuSFO Respond to of 149317

Pretty much any teaching hospital and most large community hospitals can deal with it, if they have to. All it really takes is a patient isolation room with an ante-room for changing. Just give the staff the protective gear they need. Dealing with Duncan isn't all that different from an Aids or Hep patient on a vent and getting dialysis. I wouldn't want to stick my finger drawing blood from any of them. Those 4 hospitals are just the recipients of federal anti-terrorism biowarfare preparedness grants. Good for 10 cases of smallpox or anthrax or ebola. Paid for with federal tax money. In the meantime, the score is Enterovirus 6, Ebola 1. In further bad news, nobody has become Ebola symptomatic in the last 48 hours. Hard to keep the panic going without new cases. A first grader in Arizona has died of a respiratory disease that parents fear could be the deadly Enterovirus. Public health officials are awaiting the results of tests to determine what disease killed the Vistancia Elementary School student, but dozens of parents aren't taking any chances and pulled their children from school as soon as they learned of the illness. Enterovirus D-68 is a nasty strain of a relatively common virus that has sicked hundreds of schoolchildren and killed at least six across the country this fall. Children under age 5 who have asthma or other respiratory problems seem to be especially susceptible. Read more: dailymail.co.uk

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (146236)	10/17/2014 6:41:07 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

"The United States has just four Ebola-equipped hospitals." Africa would shit to have even one. Pretty much any hospital in America with a big front lawn can be turned into an Ebola hospital. Towns with more football fields than ERs can use them. All it takes is personnel and sufficient protective gear. Sadly, no new cases have presented in almost 60 hours. Gonna make it hard for y'all to sustain hysteria if things don't change in a hurry. Ebola field hospitals ideally contain three separate tents for confirmed, probable and suspected cases; separate toilet and washing facilities for each; and a double fence outside so relatives can talk without touching. They also contain separate dressing and undressing rooms for staff members wearing protective gear, and possibly laboratory and kitchen tents. nytimes.com Hospital were following lax Ebola guidelines, experts say The MSF guidelines are even stricter than the new CDC ones in that they require full coverage of the body, head and legs with fabrics that blood or vomit cannot soak through, along with rubber aprons, goggles or face shields, sealed wrists and rubber boots. Doctors and nurses wear two sets of gloves, outer ones with long wrists that strap or are taped to the gown; janitors wear three sets. As they undress in choreographed steps, MSF workers wash their hands with chlorine solution eight times and are sprayed with a chlorine mist. Most important, all personnel disrobe only under the eyes of a supervisor whose job is to prevent even a single misstep. Risky procedures like blood sampling are kept to a minimum. (Rat wonders if ventilators and dialysis machines are too risky to use. Should we move to comfort care instead?) bostonglobe.com