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15 Feb ’12
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some good news
LONDON (Reuters) - The world is for the first time on the verge of being able to protect humans against Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as data from a trial in Guinea showed a vaccine was 100 percent effective.
Initial results from the trial, which tested Merck and NewLink Genetics’ VSV-ZEBOV vaccine on some 4,000 people who had been in close contact with a confirmed Ebola case, showed 100 percent protection after 10 days.
The results were described as "remarkable" and "game changing" by global health specialists
15 Feb ’12
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maybe it isn't over, what if all the people who were "cured" start showing symptoms again
A nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa is now "critically ill" with complications arising from the infection.
Pauline Cafferkey was readmitted to a specialist isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London last week.
The hospital said in a statement that her condition had deteriorated.
Ms Cafferkey, 39, from Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, contracted Ebola while working at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone last year.
She spent almost a month in isolation at the Royal Free at the beginning of the year after the virus was detected when she arrived back in the UK.
She was later discharged after apparently making a full recovery, but it was discovered last week that Ebola was still present in her body.
6 Oct ’15
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My wife and I are both front line health care professionals. She does a lot of outpatient triage. Ebola is just one of many things. The most common 'biggie' is MRSA. It is estimated that 1/3 of all of us have Latent MRSA in America...higher in most parts of the world. You have all heard it before...over use of antibiotics, international travel, commercial livestock production (how many chickens and turkeys were put down earlier this year???).
One of the simplest things we all can do is wash our hands. Soap and water (does not need to be hot at all, cold is fine), wash for 20 seconds getting all the nooks and crannies, dry with paper/clean cloth towel. The hand sanitizer is okay...but soap and water still cleans things that hand sanitizer can't.
Limiting contact with other's, and washing hands frequently is huge, and not touching your face (eyes, nose, mouth) after you touch door handles, light switches, shake hands is big---not easy. It is estimated the average person may touch their face 500 to 2,000 times a day.
Sooner or later, one or more of the nasty virus's will break through and it won't be good. We are way over due for a pan-dermic. Modern medicine and old time remedies can not cure everything (nor do we have the capacity in our health care system to do so). We are at the top end of our anti-biotics...the so called 'big guns' of AB's are one's we have been using since the late 70s and early 80s...and AB's do not work on a virus.
When Ebola was big earlier this year, my wife was trained as a first responder in the hospital, 12 hours over 2 days. The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is very expensive and is in very short supply...and she works for a major regional hospital that is a Level 1 Trauma Center with all the bells and whistles.
Think about this...reality check...do you think any health care worker wants to go to work and face this stuff and catch it or bring it home to the family???
Be ready to shelter in place...it is not expensive to prepare...maybe someone can post a list of supplies and what to do for such a scenario.
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