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Marrah_G

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18. In the US.

Reply to LisaL (Reply #17)

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 09:39 PM

Oct 2014

In Africa health care workers are infecting others due to the conditions they work and live in. "healthcare worker" does not just mean the MSF or the other groups working in Ebola units. Healthcare workers there can mean minimally trained staff in very rural clinics who have very little supplies.

Ebola in Africa is spread due to poverty and everything that brings with it.

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Passenger quarantined after treating Ebola patients in Africa develops fever Update-no ebola [View all] hrmjustin Oct 2014 OP

As a nurse coming from one of those areas she would have self reported Marrah_G Oct 2014 #1

This is a huge dilemma. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #2

It's really not. Marrah_G Oct 2014 #3

So what do you think should happen? hrmjustin Oct 2014 #4

They go home and call the hospital if they start showing symptoms Marrah_G Oct 2014 #15

I agree with Marrah_G on this KMOD Oct 2014 #24

And if they symptoms hit while they are traveling? LisaL Oct 2014 #31

That poor baby was sick before she left KMOD Oct 2014 #34

She was sick before they were traveling or they were traveling for multiple days Marrah_G Oct 2014 #36

She could have self reported. LisaL Oct 2014 #10

She was going to NYC. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #11

So she was going to get on another plane? LisaL Oct 2014 #12

Thay is a good question. Not sure if she was headed home to NYC or going to Laguardia. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #13

not if she was going to Newark to NYC magical thyme Oct 2014 #14

Why would you think she was going from Newark to NYC to get on another plane? Marrah_G Oct 2014 #19

From Newark? Warpy Oct 2014 #28

Well, that's news to me. LisaL Oct 2014 #30

Infections have all been traced to vomit, feces, and blood. Warpy Oct 2014 #32

Virus is in all the body fluids, such as saliva and sweat. LisaL Oct 2014 #33

Again, infections have been traced to exposure with vomit, feces and blood. Warpy Oct 2014 #35

Lisa, how many health care professionals have infected others after self monitoring? Marrah_G Oct 2014 #16

Are you asking me about US or Africa? LisaL Oct 2014 #17

In the US. Marrah_G Oct 2014 #18

Again. We had very few cases so far. LisaL Oct 2014 #20

We haven't had many cases because things here are not like things there. Marrah_G Oct 2014 #22

No, most people haven't finished their quarantine. LisaL Oct 2014 #23

I really do hate to keep pointing this out Warpy Oct 2014 #27

There is also the question of hospital staff treating Ebola patients here in the US magical thyme Oct 2014 #5

Good point. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #6

Exactly. Here's their plan: work a single shift >>>> go directly into 21 days quarantine. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #8

By quarantining a single exposed person, we can avoid quarantining dozens later, pnwmom Oct 2014 #21

Public panic+electioneering+ignorance. Warpy Oct 2014 #26

RWers to scream "see, it still doesn't work, ANOTHER one got in!!!" in 3....2....1.... kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #7

They are what they are. If they didn't have fear they would not know what to do. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #9

local tv says her symptoms are getting worse. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #25

Did they say what symptoms? LisaL Oct 2014 #29

NY1 says she tested no for ebola. hrmjustin Oct 2014 #37