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upaloopa

(11,417 posts) Wed Oct 15, 2014, 06:20 PM Oct 2014

Unless you’re in a setting where you’re a healthcare worker or a family member caring for a person

who is sick, you probably couldn’t get Ebola if you wanted to.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/dr-daniel-bausch-answers-8-ebola-questions

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Unless you’re in a setting where you’re a healthcare worker or a family member caring for a person (Original Post) upaloopa Oct 2014 OP

I'm screwed. hunter Oct 2014 #1

He was taking about treating Ebola patients upaloopa Oct 2014 #2

My wife and my sister are front line medical people. hunter Oct 2014 #3

hunter

(38,310 posts)

1. I'm screwed.

Reply to upaloopa (Original post)

Wed Oct 15, 2014, 06:57 PM

Oct 2014

I have immediate family who deal with bloody bodily fluid messes almost every day.

I quit that business years ago. The viruses I deal with now only infect computers.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

2. He was taking about treating Ebola patients

Reply to hunter (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 15, 2014, 07:11 PM

Oct 2014

hunter

(38,310 posts)

3. My wife and my sister are front line medical people.

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 15, 2014, 07:54 PM

Oct 2014

Anything that can go wrong with a human body, they've probably seen it.

Measles, Mumps, AIDS, TB, Hepatitis, Polio, Leprosy...

For now I think the antibiotic resistant tuberculosis or "flesh eating bacteria" still scare me the most.

Years ago I used to work in a medical lab with raw blood. When I started the job we were quit casual, gloves and safety glasses. A few people didn't even wear lab coats. As the AIDS crisis progressed we were wearing full face shields and responding to every torn glove as potential catastrophe.

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