Coast Guard sector issues new steps on Ebola virus 2:55 pm, Tuesday, October 7, 2014
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard sector says it will contact ships that have recently been to Ebola-affected countries to ask whether passengers have symptoms of the virus before they are allowed into port.
The sector, which includes parts of New York and Connecticut, issued to the maritime community in Long Island Sound on Monday a bulletin that describes protocols being put into place due to the Ebola outbreak.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard sector says it will contact ships that have recently been to Ebola-affected countries to ask whether passengers have symptoms of the virus before they are allowed into port.
The sector, which includes parts of New York and Connecticut, issued to the maritime community in Long Island Sound on Monday a bulletin that describes protocols being put into place due to the Ebola outbreak.
First published October 8 2014, 4:26 AM
Canadian Ebola vaccine license holder moving ahead with safety trials
October 8, 2014 8:43 a.m.
TORONTO - With talk turning to the idea that Ebola vaccines and drugs may be needed to quell the West African outbreak, the tiny U.S. company that holds the licence for a Canadian-made vaccine says it is working as fast as it can to get that option tested and ready for use.
NewLink Genetics says at least five clinical trials involving the vaccine, known as VSV-EBOV, will soon be under way in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and in an unnamed African country which is not battling Ebola. As well, the Canadian government has said it wants to conduct a trial in this country.
October 8, 2014 8:43 a.m.
TORONTO - With talk turning to the idea that Ebola vaccines and drugs may be needed to quell the West African outbreak, the tiny U.S. company that holds the licence for a Canadian-made vaccine says it is working as fast as it can to get that option tested and ready for use.
NewLink Genetics says at least five clinical trials involving the vaccine, known as VSV-EBOV, will soon be under way in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and in an unnamed African country which is not battling Ebola. As well, the Canadian government has said it wants to conduct a trial in this country.
AP: Doc: Spanish woman touched face with ebola glove
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Spanish health officials say they are investigating whether a nursing assistant infected with Ebola got the disease after she touched her face with protective gloves after leaving the quarantine room where an Ebola victim was being treated.
Dr. German Ramirez says nursing assistant Teresa Romero says she remembers she once touched her face with the gloves.
Health officials have said Romero twice entered the room of Spanish missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died of Ebola on Sept. 25 in Madrid. She went in once to change his diaper and also entered after he died to retrieve unspecified items.
Ramirez said Wednesday that Romero believes she touched her face with the glove after her first entry into the priest's room.
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Note: This nurse ['s aid] is reported to have entered the priest's room only twice. Once to change his diaper, the second time to collect and dispose of his things.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Spanish health officials say they are investigating whether a nursing assistant infected with Ebola got the disease after she touched her face with protective gloves after leaving the quarantine room where an Ebola victim was being treated.
Dr. German Ramirez says nursing assistant Teresa Romero says she remembers she once touched her face with the gloves.
Health officials have said Romero twice entered the room of Spanish missionary Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died of Ebola on Sept. 25 in Madrid. She went in once to change his diaper and also entered after he died to retrieve unspecified items.
Ramirez said Wednesday that Romero believes she touched her face with the glove after her first entry into the priest's room.
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Note: This nurse ['s aid] is reported to have entered the priest's room only twice. Once to change his diaper, the second time to collect and dispose of his things.
Third Health Worker Hospitalized Over Ebola in Spain
A spokesman for Spain's regional health department said the hospital worker, whose name wasn't disclosed, had a slight fever, one possible early symptom of Ebola. The aide was part of the medical team that treated Manuel García Viejo, a 69-year-old Spanish missionary who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to Madrid. He died in late September
A spokesman for Spain's regional health department said the hospital worker, whose name wasn't disclosed, had a slight fever, one possible early symptom of Ebola. The aide was part of the medical team that treated Manuel García Viejo, a 69-year-old Spanish missionary who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to Madrid. He died in late September
Flight attendants call for tougher Ebola screens at airports
Wednesday - 10/8/2014, 8:17am ET
The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) says new, stronger measures must be implemented in Ebola virus hotspots to keep anyone with likely symptoms grounded.
The union representing nearly 60,000 Flight Attendants at 19 airlines believes airlines and health officials are relying too heavily on voluntary questionnaires.
AFA says in a news release that options are limited once someone infected with the Ebola virus is on a plane - flight crews don't have the medical training or personal protective equipment required for handling an Ebola patient.
Wednesday - 10/8/2014, 8:17am ET
The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) says new, stronger measures must be implemented in Ebola virus hotspots to keep anyone with likely symptoms grounded.
The union representing nearly 60,000 Flight Attendants at 19 airlines believes airlines and health officials are relying too heavily on voluntary questionnaires.
AFA says in a news release that options are limited once someone infected with the Ebola virus is on a plane - flight crews don't have the medical training or personal protective equipment required for handling an Ebola patient.
The serious-faced physicians practice pulling on bulky white suits and helmets that make them look more like astronauts than doctors preparing to fight a deadly enemy. These training sessions at U.S. hospitals on Ebola alert and for health workers heading to Africa can make the reality sink in: Learning how to safely put on and take off the medical armor is crucial.
KSL.com Ebola crisis leaves Dallas a city on edge
October 8, 2014
Leaders are urging calm, but Dallas is a city on edge as it approaches the first Ebola incubation deadline this week.
October 8, 2014
Leaders are urging calm, but Dallas is a city on edge as it approaches the first Ebola incubation deadline this week.
Associated Press 6:28 a.m. EDT October 8, 2014
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday that bodies of Ebola victims have been left in the country's streets because of a strike by burial teams, who complain they have not been paid.
Health Ministry spokesman Sidie Yahya Tunis said the situation is "very embarrassing," insisting money was available to pay the teams. He promised to provide more information later Wednesday.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday that bodies of Ebola victims have been left in the country's streets because of a strike by burial teams, who complain they have not been paid.
Health Ministry spokesman Sidie Yahya Tunis said the situation is "very embarrassing," insisting money was available to pay the teams. He promised to provide more information later Wednesday.
Updated: 07 October 2014 04:17 PM
Two Dallas ISD custodial supervisors said they were placed on administrative leave Monday because it took too long to clean five schools affected by the city’s Ebola case and because they supplied hazmat suits to the custodians who cleaned the schools.
The two supervisors -- Marion Castro and Jose Guererro -- said they couldn’t complete the cleanup in one day because the district didn’t provide help to work through the night.
UPDATE ---
We've all read the alarm about the initial attempts to have Mr. Duncan's ebola laced vomit power-washed off the property by a typical custodian sans protective gear in Dallas.
Consider all those dead bodies, at the peak of infection when the greatest amount of live ebola virus is present, remain in the streets of Sierra Leone. Compound that with the rainy season. Albeit, the end of the rainy season but consider it has had an impact as reported here:
Rains complicate delivery of Ebola supplies in West Africa dated 9/30/2014
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The rainy season in West Africa generally falls from the end of April - July on the coastal areas with a second shorter rainy season in September/October.
Closer to the coast it is always a little more humid even in the dry months, but there are less mosquitoes around and unpaved roads are passable.
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In Spain, they just ordered the euthansia of an Ebola-infected nurse's pet dog ...due to potential exposure to Ebola.
Imagine these dead festering bodies in Sierra Leone in the open, and the natural animals, insects, vermin which can carry/consume the virus spilling into puddles, onto vegetation,etc.
JOHN KERRY'S NON-SEQUITOR: WE NEED TO CONTAIN EBOLA, WE NEED BORDERS TO REMAIN OPEN, AND WE NEED TO EXPAND THE MEDEVAC CAPACITY
Muddled thinking like that assures us we're in the worst hands since Caligula.
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Is John Kerry RETARDED?
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