It is crystal clear that we were woefully unprepared for the inevitable first case of ebola coming to our shores. Some fatal combination of arrogance, ignorance, negligence, recklessness, stupidity, political correctness (some would add “evil intent”), and irresponsibility has led … Continue reading →
WHO director Margaret Chan said yesterday that the current ebola epidemic is “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.” On the one hand, I’m happy that WHO is taking the outbreak very seriously. On the other hand, … Continue reading →
Absolute claptrap from the director of the CDC. And it’s not even difficult to tell that it’s claptrap. The application of any sort of logic or common sense would reveal it as such. Luckily, most Americans are not as stupid/illogical/manipulative/ill-informed/PC/mealy-mouthed/mendacious … Continue reading →
I’ve written that it seems that ebola can start with a low-grade fever for a while, and that the criteria for diagnosis should note that fact and not exclude people with other symptoms and risk factors because their fevers haven’t … Continue reading →
…who treated Thomas Eric Duncan. I was wondering when the first US transmission would occur. I was hoping against hope it would not occur, but thinking that transmission was almost inevitable. It is of interest that the first person to … Continue reading →
It was reported by the Dallas hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan that his temperature was only 100.1 degrees on his first visit to the ER, and this was part of the reason they didn’t red-flag him at that point. … Continue reading →
It doesn’t look good for the Spanish nurse in Madrid who contracted ebola while caring for an infected priest who’d been brought back from Africa. And, in today’s current climate of passing the buck, the Spanish authorities are passing it … Continue reading →
And that’s not the only thing that needs revising. When I first heard the story about the Spanish nurse who has ebola, and compared it with that of Thomas Duncan, one thing leapt out at me: both of them reported … Continue reading →
I was hoping he’d live, for many reasons. But despite being cared for in Dallas rather than Liberia, Thomas Eric Duncan becomes not just the first person to be diagnosed in this country, but the first person to die of … Continue reading →
Now they want to kill the Spanish nurse’s dog as an Ebola precaution. I like dogs, but I’m not a PETA-esque fanatic. However, I’m with the nurse’s husband on this—why not quarantine the dog for a while?: In a letter … Continue reading →
…is a nurse’s assistant. Unlike the accusations that have been leveled at Thomas Duncan, no one can say she kept mum about the fact that she’d been near an Ebola patient recently. That’s because she was on the team that … Continue reading →
I mean it: mosquitoes are astonishing. Until recently, all I knew about mosquitoes could be summed up as: hate the little buggers. They bite, and can cause malaria. But while researching the answer to Ymarsakar’s question the other day about … Continue reading →