Picture of the Day: Anti-Ebola Outfit
A suit to protect medical workers from the Ebola virus is being tested at a medical center in Daejeon, South Chungcheong Province, on Jan. 13, 2015. Last week, South Korea sent a group of five doctors and four nurses to Britain for safety training before flying to Sierra Leone on Jan. 19 for a four-week mission. Seoul plans to send a total of 30 medical staff members to Sierra Leone. The first batch of 10 health care workers has worked there since late December while the final batch of 11 workers will be sent next month. (Yonhap)
“for a four-week mission”
More Ebola Tourists…
Like fake earthquake aid to Haiti, more money will be spent on airplane tickets, expense accounts, and self-congradulatory pre/post soju parties than will actually go to benefit anybody with Ebola.
Wonder if at least part of it is in case a global epidemic breaks out each nation will have a few people who have treated ebola patients.
Good point, Johnnyboy.
Nonetheless, I suspect it would be cheaper to pay a true expert with a lot of Ebola time to travel around and share what they have learned instead of sending box-checkers off for a few weeks of getting in the way of those who have been managing the situation for years.
The money saved could be put to good use for facilities, equipment, and consumables… all of which are in far more shortage than Ebola Tourists poking around and then leaving just about the time they start to get useful.
The reality is, everyone knows how to treat Ebola in a first-world setting… both the patient care and the true caution necessary to avoid exposure… as these are medical standards with a wide range of diseases.
It appears the biggest thing the Ebola Tourists learn is how to deal with medical care in an environment without isolation wards, climate control, clean water, plentiful supplies, self-reliant patients, etc.
If this becomes an important skill in managing disease in America, there are far bigger problems than Ebola.
How the f would you even be able to perform medical work in a getup like that? Dog n’ Pony Korean Style.
Everyone knew how to protect themselves but two nurses still caught it from Duncan.
Although, that likely had more to do with lack of proper protective equipment provided by the hospital.
In the later cases treated in the U.S. it seems health workers were either more cautious or were actually given the equipment they needed.
I still think we have dodged a bullet in regards to the virus not being more widespread domestically.
And even if the media and the public have largely put it out of mind, it is still a very real possibility. Especially if the people enforcing the limited travel restrictions and guidelines become complacent or are quietly pulled off their duties, if they haven’t already been.
The rate of growth had gone down but the problem is still growing.
The larger it gets, the bigger the chance of it spreading to some developing megacity. Then it gets back in the news.
Until then, it has become just another case of Africa fatigue.
Eventually some terrorists will attempt to weaponize it…
…if “terrorists” are really as big of threat as the world is led to believe… which is another issue.
https://www.wral.com/for-the-first-time-a-female-ebola-survivor-infects-others/17716292/
New Info: You can catch ebola from a female ebola survivor.
Old Info but New to Me: Up to two years later if you are into sperm.
WOW. Thanks for the update, CH. 😮
It’s the only way to be sure…