Under quarantine at local hospital


http://khon2.com/2014/10/01/patient-in-isolation-in-honolulu-hospital-officials-say-ebola-a-possibility/

According to this guy, Ebola Virus is only spread through direct contact, and through bodily fluids.

If that's true, then why do they have to put Ebola patients in isolation and the healthcare workers in HAZMAT suits?

Not confirmed.
As the extra precautions are warranted such that we don't have a cure for it.

According to this guy, Ebola Virus is only spread through direct contact, and through bodily fluids.

If that's true, then why do they have to put Ebola patients in isolation and the healthcare workers in HAZMAT suits?

A person can use the blood dilute the blood in water and use it in the water system or spray it on someone or look at it this way all they gotta do is spray a little on your car door handle and your infected thats why they need to take precautions ebola is also a weapon very dangrouse, in that it dosn't care who you are it just doe's its job and kill. now we got this shit in Hawaii its like don't let the cat out of the bag because if they do all hell goina break loose very spooky more like nightmare scenario. Sometimes the government says the truth and sometimes they lie but hey hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Remember when postal workers was getting sick from anthrax well ebola just the same, makes you think and go out and buy some hand wipes and wipe down that shopping basket or shopping cart at the store, you don't know what you'll get.

I feel real comfortable knowing the government says its all good and no worry...  if anything ill just call 911 and everything will be OK.

According to this guy, Ebola Virus is only spread through direct contact, and through bodily fluids.

If that's true, then why do they have to put Ebola patients in isolation and the healthcare workers in HAZMAT suits?

They are not HazMat suit, they are standard Tyvex PPE suits that are used in a variety of situations involving communicable diseases. And the use of such suits is far from the highest level of PPE used in caring for someone with a communicable disease. Use of the suit with goggles or a face shield constitutes a level C+ of protection. THe blue suits you see FD in are level A suits that have either self contained or piped in air supply.

As for why we put healthcare workers in this level of protection? The other "name" for Ebola is viral hemorrhagic fever....meaning the disease process essentially makes the vascular permeable and therefore the patient bleeds out of various orifices providing the healthcare worker a significant chance of contact with the patient's blood and bodily fluids.

A person can use the blood dilute the blood in water and use it in the water system or spray it on someone or look at it this way all they gotta do is spray a little on your car door handle and your infected thats why they need to take precautions ebola is also a weapon very dangrouse, in that it dosn't care who you are it just doe's its job and kill. now we got this shit in Hawaii its like don't let the cat out of the bag because if they do all hell goina break loose very spooky more like nightmare scenario. Sometimes the government says the truth and sometimes they lie but hey hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Remember when postal workers was getting sick from anthrax well ebola just the same, makes you think and go out and buy some hand wipes and wipe down that shopping basket or shopping cart at the store, you don't know what you'll get.

We conclude that EBOV is shed in a wide variety of bodily fluids during the acute period of illness but that the risk of transmission from fomites in an isolation ward and from convalescent patients is low when currently recommended infection control guidelines for the viral hemorrhagic fevers are followed.

You just described the exact conditions ( the disease process essentially makes the vascular permeable and therefore the patient bleeds out of various orifices providing the healthcare worker a significant chance of contact with the patient's blood and bodily fluids) which contradict the CDC's platitudes that all is well!  No need to panic!  Even if someone near you is infected, they have to be "sick" (showing symptoms) to be contagious. 

The patient in Texas was taken to the ER and subsequently released with some antibiotics even though he told the nurse he had just come from Liberia.  He was in contact with people AND THINGS PEOPLE TOUCH for 4 more days.   Even though the workers are quarantining people KNOWN to have been in contact with the man, there is no way to go over every single place he touched something  that another may have touched right after him.

This is starting to turn into Mad Cow disease.  No need to panic UNTIL AFTER  you get it!  Up until then, don't worry .... be happy!   

They need the suits.  There are many healthcare workers in Africa that are catching Ebola themselves, like the 2 US workers that traveled back home for treatment.  I'm sure they used gloves and other protective uniforms but they still got it.  So although it's far less contagious than an airborn disease, it's still contagious.  What makes this worse than other diseases is the high mortality rate.

You sound as if you have very little experience treating patients with communicable diseases. Similar precautions take place on a daily basis in hospitals across the nation and the world when caring for other infectious diseases. I have donned those same types of PPE for the last 30+ years taking care of patients who don't have Ebola. These precautions even have a name:universal blood and bodily fluid precautions.

My statements have not contradicted anything the CDC said. It is your ignorance that seems to drive you to conclusions that are not supported by the scientific facts. The CDC has not said "all is well" but rather that despite the hysteria generated by the media and vocal uninformed people, there is no cause for undue alarm. Is there a problem? Yep, just as if they were concerned about any other communicable disease. Rather, what they said is that we can control the spread thru standard precautions and standard public health efforts. Could more people get infected? Possibly.....will there be the same type of widespread death and illness here? No.

I find it somewhat ironic that most folks on this forum lament the sensationalist nature of the main stream media and how frequently they get facts wrong, rather on purpose or because of political ideology. Yet folks like yourself will unquestionably take for gospel what the MSM says about Ebola and buy into the hype intended to sell airtime and advertising.......