介绍:
White House officials have reassured the public that an Ebola outbreak in the United States is unlikely after the first Ebola case outside of Africa was identified in Texas last week.
In Friday's briefing, White House spokesperson Lisa Monaco, defended the response to the country's first Ebola case claiming that the US is more than prepared to handle the virus both at home and in the affected regions due to a capable health infrastructure and the most capable doctors in the world.
Monaco went on to say that every Ebola outbreak in the past forty years has been stopped.
When faced with the criticism in the handling of the recent Ebola case in Texas, Monaco admitted to a flaw but urged for calm. However, she did not call for any change in the current guidelines for hospital procedures or heath officials, asserting that the ones currently in place are working.
Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who had come to America on a tourist visa, had allegedly lied on a form claiming that he had not been exposed to the Ebola virus before boarding his plane.
Duncan tested positive for the virus on Tuesday and was placed in quarantine. His apartment was disinfected four days later by a hazardous materials team.
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(JA) Bruce Hood from the guardian.com comments
I would short airline stocks today because in two more months logical people will stop flying...an airplane seat is the perfect thing to spread ebola...the dallas victims plane is still is service...I would bet they did not remove the seat he was sitting in...as he sweat it out during his long flight.
(QD) TheMightyGuns from the guardian.com
The nations it is rampant in literally have no healthcare systems, and have traditions that make it much more likely that the disease will spread- not true in the west.
(FA) Krisstea from dailymail.co.uk comments
Obama is a miserable failure. Even if you stop all flights coming into our country we have wide open borders for them to walk right in from good old Mexico. But on the bright side perhaps the illegals will head back home in fear of catching this disease.
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Notes:
• Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
• Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva
• Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 70%
• Incubation period is two to 21 days
• There is no proven vaccine or cure
• Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
• Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host
• Public health watchdog says Ebola patients could use ibuprofen to lower their fevers so that they can pass through airport checkpoints
• Nearly all of the screening is done by staff in Ebola-stricken nations using hand-held temperature scanners
• The scanners can be tricked with drugs that lower fever
• The first U.S. Ebola patient, who arrived on a plane after flying out of Liberia, has sparked calls to tighten screening for the disease at U.S. airports
• Thomas Eric Duncan lied on a form when he said he had not been in contact with anyone sickened with Ebola
• Duncan arrived in the U.S. on September 20 and is believed to have come on a tourist visa in what was his first trip to America.
• Up to 100 people including five schoolchildren were exposed to him while he was infected - health authorities in Texas now say that 10 people are of particular concern.
• Duncan's neighbours in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, believe he became infected when he helped a sick pregnant woman, who later died of Ebola, a few weeks ago. It was not clear if Duncan knew of the woman's Ebola diagnosis before he departed for the US.
• After getting progressively more ill, Duncan was taken back to the hospital on Sunday by ambulance, two days after his first visit. His Ebola diagnosis was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday. On Friday, the hospital said his condition remained "serious".
• On Thursday, CNN revealed that his apartment had still not been cleaned. Two pickup trucks and a van, belonging to a local commercial hazardous materials clean-up company, arrived at the complex on Thursday evening. But the clean-up operation did not get under way until late Friday morning
• Since Duncan's diagnosis, people have visited hospitals in a few states and were checked for Ebola symptoms. On Friday, Howard University Hospital in Washington said it admitted and isolated a patient with possible symptoms who had recently travelled from Nigeria "in an abundance of caution."
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(JA) lucy from dailymail.co.uk comments
If you start having recognizable symptoms then sound an alarm. Maybe the biggest problem we will have during this Ebola situation is dealing with people who don't seem to have any working brain cells. That goes for those in the health care field, too.
(QD) Eryn-Jean Sargent from bbc facebook comments
there are at least 4 other cases of Americans that have contracted Ebola from Africa because of working with the sick. They have come home, are being treated there, and I have read that they have recovered or are recovering. This is just the first case of it with an 'average' person. The CDC has VERY strict guide lines on how to deal with this. Important to remember that Ebola is contracted through body fluids and not through the air.
(FA)Liam walker from bbc facebook comments
America does have a good healthcare infrastructure. However, Mexico does not. Texas is very close to Mexico, if an outbreak happens there the infected will be entering the U.S in large numbers. Also, this infected man initially
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