February 2014 Moms

Is anyone else not so excited about Ebola?

https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/01/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Summary - two US citizens are returning to US (atlanta) for treatment of Ebola.

I'm pretty much like this:
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Re: Is anyone else not so excited about Ebola?

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  • I was talking to my mom on my way home from work today, and she was writing out a memo to send to Drs about how to recognize it with first symptoms and such.

    I was all "wait. This is a thing again??"
  • We have Ebola in the US already, it's not as virulent and has only been seen in Pigs and monkeys.


     

     

     

     

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  • I'm reading The Stand by Stephen King right now and can't help but draw parallels.
  • I don't love Ebola, but I'm kind of loving that this is the new "hot topic". I'm pretty sure we can all agree. :)
    Not me.  I'm pro-Ebola and when they develop a vaccine my kid won't get it.


    Seriously though, scary shit. I get got chilly spine just by reading about it.

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  • megash113 said:
    Anyone else read Hot Zone? Yeah I'm terrified.
    Yeppers.  Is it weird to say I loved it?


     

     

     

     

  • I am certainly not excited about this. It is really scary shit. I heard on NPR that over 700 people have died during the outbreaks in West Africa.


     

     


     

  • https://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140727-fort-worth-doctor-with-ebola-known-for-compassionate-heart.ece 

    There is a more personal article on the doctor who is being flown back. The other person is a nurse with the same organization. Definitely both are heroes.
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  • Scary shit.  I live 15 minutes from the CDC.
  • I heard an expert interviewed on NPR and he said even if it comes here we have the infrastructure and resources to isolate it and a widespread outbreak in the US or EU is unlikely. Just one guy's opinion but take some comfort maybe.
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  • Just to calm some anxiety. It's far easier for these viruses to spread in underdeveloped countries. They are isolated and/or don't trust doctors so by the time they seek help they have already spread it. Ebola isn't airborne, so you actually hav to have contact with an infected person's body fluids. The doctors are each being flown in a seperate plane totally equipped for handeling infectious diseases. But it is creepy.
    On a related note, this reminds me of an app I used to play called Plague Inc. You basically mutate a virus to take oh mankind. I was scarily good at it.
  • @keags5496‌ I was just thinking about Plague Inc. I love that game.
  • @keags5496‌ I was just thinking about Plague Inc. I love that game.

    I might have just reinstalled it on my phone.
  • I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities.  I think it's a bad, bad idea.  Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??

    Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??

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  • Firefly9 said:

    I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities.  I think it's a bad, bad idea.  Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??

    Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??

    Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.
  • ShePersistedShePersisted member
    edited August 2014
    This reminds me of that movie contagion. That shit can happen for real but I'm with @keags5496‌. The US is much better equipped to deal with this. However, if it were any other developing country I'd say a prayer as people have very different meaning for hygiene there.

    I was at a top hospital in India and butt naked on the table to get examined. There was no sheet on the bed. I freaked out but the nurse insisted it was sanitized. Yeah that did not go well.
  • keags5496 said:

    Firefly9 said:

    I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities.  I think it's a bad, bad idea.  Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??

    Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??

    Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.

    The protocols for handling infectious disease patients are VERY strict. I'm sure that these workers will be extra cautious since they have so many eyes on them and it's so vital.

    I want those doctors home. It's scary, yes, but I imagine it being my husband and I'd want him home.

    This outbreak does make me wish he'd gone into a different speciality. He gets to work with all the sick patients. Ask the bumpies I lost it to how well I handled him having measles patients.


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  • @RondackHiker, I can't imagine what it's like for your DH. He must have so much patience. 
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  • karichkarich member
    edited August 2014

    keags5496 said:

    Firefly9 said:

    I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities.  I think it's a bad, bad idea.  Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??

    Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??

    Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.

    The protocols for handling infectious disease patients are VERY strict. I'm sure that these workers will be extra cautious since they have so many eyes on them and it's so vital.

    I want those doctors home. It's scary, yes, but I imagine it being my husband and I'd want him home.

    This outbreak does make me wish he'd gone into a different speciality. He gets to work with all the sick patients. Ask the bumpies I lost it to how well I handled him having measles patients.
    Is he an infection disease fellow?

    I don't really get the excitement, chances of an Ebola outbreak is low.
    I'd be much more concerned about the bugs that are prevalent in the community and we have few drugs to treat them. And even those bugs....Hell, I'm exposed to them on almost a daily basis (and so are thousands and thousands of healthcare workers everyday)
    You can't focus and dwell on these kinds of things that you can't control.
  • Also wanted to add:

    Infectious disease is scary when you have a sick patient and you don't know what's making them sick. The illness has been identified, and therefore proper precautions will be taken to minimize exposure.
  • karich said:
    I've been having horrible visions of them having to quarantine cities.  I think it's a bad, bad idea.  Sure, it could have gotten here anyway, but why intentionally bring it and risk it??

    Anyone ever read The Hot Zone??
    Maybe I'm too trusting, but I feel like if there was even minimal risk they would have taken the medical care to them rather than move them. I'm mobile so I can't link but the planes look legit and I'm sure they will be basically in bubbles throughout.
    The protocols for handling infectious disease patients are VERY strict. I'm sure that these workers will be extra cautious since they have so many eyes on them and it's so vital. I want those doctors home. It's scary, yes, but I imagine it being my husband and I'd want him home. This outbreak does make me wish he'd gone into a different speciality. He gets to work with all the sick patients. Ask the bumpies I lost it to how well I handled him having measles patients.
    Is he an infection disease fellow? I don't really get the excitement, chances of an Ebola outbreak is low. I'd be much more concerned about the bugs that are prevalent in the community and we have few drugs to treat them. And even those bugs....Hell, I'm exposed to them on almost a daily basis (and so are thousands and thousands of healthcare workers everyday) You can't focus and dwell on these kinds of things that you can't control.
    Nope, just internal medicine but he's at one of the largest hospitals in the area so he's around fun things like MRSA often (though he tells me daily that MRSA isn't a big deal).

    DH isn't worried about ebola either, but I can't shake some anxiety (mostly because more people will flood the hospital and clinic and he'll bring home more fun germs).


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  • Unfortunately, MRSA and VRE is everywhere, in every hospital, not just the larger facilities.
    It's not really a concern unless you are immunocompromised.

    Maybe I should be more concerned...because if people do start to show up with Ebola, it will be me who is taking care of them.
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