"I was floored," she said in the interview. "I was afraid for myself and my family because I did everything that I was instructed to do every time and I felt like if Nina can get it, any one of us could have gotten it."
instead we got dont worry about it, it cant happen here.
Steve James wrote:Anyway, I'm back to waiting another 21 days.
“From all we have been able to learn, CDC does not have any existing procedures or protocols for management or reintegration of returning healthcare workers who have potentially been exposed to Ebola,” Samaritan’s Purse president Franklin Graham wrote to CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden.
The State Department’s public affairs office declined to comment on why the Aug. 18 contract painted the CDC and other agencies as unprepared for Ebola evacuations.
Nor did it explain this line in the contract: “Several American citizens have already been infected. Several have died, unable to be evacuated.”
But there have been no reports of U.S. residents dying while awaiting rescue in West Africa.
Patrick Sawyer, a lawyer with dual citizenship in Liberia and the U.S., was living in Africa when he died from Ebola on July 24 at a Nigerian hospital. He was not a part of a rescue attempt.
Yahoo News asked Dr. William Walters — one of five State Department officials who signed-off on the contract — which other Americans might have died while needing evacuation.
“Well, you remember Dr. Brantly and Mrs. Writebol, right?” said Dr. Walters, who heads the agency’s Office of Operational Medicine. “I don’t remember the names and the exact numbers, but if it was in there, then we must have felt it to be correct at the time.”
Asked to clarify his response, Dr. Walters referred all questions to the agency's public relations department.
According to the State Department, the cost of the medical flights from West Africa to the United States has averaged about $215,000 a trip. Non-U.S. government rescues must be paid by the patient or their sponsoring organization. A private citizen can arrange an Ebola evacuation through American Citizens Services, a State Department office that helps U.S. citizens traveling abroad.
Despite the global plea for all hands on deck, Canada said that given the problem of evacuating its doctors and nurses, it has decided not to send them to West Africa.
“We do have an arrangement with the United States, but even their medical evacuation is limited,” Canada’s Health Minister, Rona Ambrose, said last month.
Despite the global plea for all hands on deck, Canada said that given the problem of evacuating its doctors and nurses, it has decided not to send them to West Africa.
Salia, who chose to work in his homeland despite more lucrative opportunities elsewhere, was first tested for Ebola on Nov. 7, but the test was negative, and he was discharged from a treatment center in Sierre Leone.
It's not unusual to see false negative tests for Ebola in the early stages because the amount of the virus in the bloodstream is still low, said Dr. Phil Smith, the infectious-disease expert who leads the Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment unit.
The U.S. government warns doctors to be wary of possible false negative tests for Ebola.
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Salia tested positive for the disease on Nov. 10 but did not arrive at an Omaha hospital until Saturday.
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Duncan had arrived in the U.S. via Brussels on Sept. 20. He did not exhibit signs of Ebola until several days later, but was initially sent home from the Dallas hospital with antibiotics when he first went there on Sept. 25.
Nearly 3,900 people have died from the disease in West Africa, including more than 2,200 in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization. The total number of cases stands at just over 8,000.
New Screening Measures:
In Washington, meanwhile, the White House said new measures will go into place at five U.S. airports that receive over 94 percent of travelers from the worst-hit nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said U.S. border guards will begin taking the temperatures of travelers specifically from those three nations.
“The world waited far too long to respond. While our leaders waited, many people paid with their lives."
When Ron Klain leaves his post as the White House's "Ebola response coordinator," or czar, sometime early next year, don't expect a big send-off from President Obama, much less a declaration of mission accomplished. In all likelihood, the disease will still be raging in parts of West Africa, and the U.S. will still have a sizable military presence there to combat it. The CDC will still be warning of the possibility of isolated cases on domestic soil, and the Department of Homeland Security probably won't have lifted the heightened security and travel restrictions it put in place in the fall.
Thirty-six states are now experiencing high levels of flu activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, as this year’s flu vaccine may not fully protect against a strain known as influenza A H3N2 that is currently circulating and tends to be more severe.
Fifteen children age 18 and under have died from the flu as of Dec. 20, compared with four such deaths around the same time last year, according to the CDC. A number of hospitals are outpacing previous years, with some restricting visitors to prevent the spread of the virus.
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