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There is actually a well-established procedure for curtailing Ebola outbreaks: isolating those infected and closely monitoring those who had contact with them. How could a catastrophe such as the one we are now seeing even happen?
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We urgently need to come up with new strategies. Currently, helpers are no longer luxury hotels dallas able to care for all the patients in treatment centres. So caregivers need to teach family members who are providing care to patients how to protect themselves from infection to the extent possible. This on-site educational work is currently the greatest challenge. Sierra Leone experimented with a three-day curfew in an attempt to at least flatten out the infection curve a bit. At first I thought: luxury hotels dallas That is totally crazy. But now I wonder, why not? At least, as long as these measures aren t imposed with military power.
There will certainly be Ebola patients from Africa who come to us in the hopes of receiving treatment. And they might even infect a few people here who may then die. But an outbreak in Europe or North America would quickly be brought under control. I am more worried about the many people from India who work in trade or industry in west Africa. It would only take one of them to become infected, travel to India to visit relatives during the virus s incubation period, and then, once he becomes sick, go to a public hospital there. Doctors and nurses in India, luxury hotels dallas too, often don t wear protective gloves. They would immediately become luxury hotels dallas infected and spread the virus.
Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.
Huh...when this first broke out I actually posted a comment in another thread here saying I was most worried about India and similar countries. Densely populated with substandard health and sanitation services.
I've paid attention to previous viral outbreaks and viruses can mutate to be less dangerous, luxury hotels dallas in some cases spreading wider as a result. Ebola has never really done this. It's always been a scary, fast-burning disease. So becoming airborne transmissible, and staying airborne transmissible, may be a nightmare scenario, but it's not necessarily likely.
In the meantime we have the increasing prosperity of Africa and the decreasing trust in any kind of government institution (not that I'm convinced there was a lot to start with) giving people mobility, luxury hotels dallas communication, and resistance to medical advice. It's not Ebola that really evolved here, it's human society.