CDC issues Ebola checklist

CDC issues Ebola checklist: 'Now is the time to prepare'
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Paul Bedard (Washington Examiner)
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CDC issues Ebola checklist
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected.

While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United States, the assumption in the checklist is that it is only a matter of time before the virus hits home.

For example, one part reads: “Encourage healthcare personnel to use a ‘buddy system’ when caring for patients.” Another recommends a process to report cases to top officials:

Plan for regular situational briefs for decision-makers, including:

Suspected and confirmed EVD patients who have been identified and reported to public health authorities.

Isolation, quarantine and exposure reports.

Supplies and logistical challenges.

Personnel status, and policy decisions on contingency plans and staffing.

The checklist has been distributed to major hospitals and even little ones, including an urgent center in Leesburg, Va.
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Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition
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Detailed Hospital Checklist for Ebola Preparedness
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What the government doesn't want to tell you about ebola
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SEQUENCE FOR
PUTTING ON PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT (PDF FOR HOSPITALS)
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Respiratory Protection
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Purpose – protect from inhalation of infectious aerosols (e.g., Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

PPE types for respiratory protection
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Particulate respirators
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Half- or full-face elastomeric respirators
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Powered air purifying respirators (PAPR)
PPE Use in Healthcare Settings PPE also is used to protect healthcare
workers’ from hazardous or infectious aerosols, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Respirators that filter the air before it is inhaled should be used for respiratory protection.

The most commonly used respirators in healthcare settings are the N95, N99, or
N100 particulate respirators. The device has a sub-micron filter capable of
excluding particles that are less than 5 microns in diameter.

Respirators are approved by the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Like other PPE, the selection of a respirator type must consider the nature of the
exposure and risk involved. For example, N95 particulate respirators might be worn
by personnel entering the room of a patient with infectious tuberculosis.

However, if a bronchoscopy is performed on the patient, the healthcare provider might wear a higher level of respiratory protection, such as a powered air-purifying respirator or PAPR.
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(Sounds like an N99 is something the public should have on hand possibly.) Story Reports

What the government doesn't want to tell you about ebola

What they don't want to tell you about ebola
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What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola
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THE Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.

There have been more than 4,300 cases and 2,300 deaths over the past six months. Last week, the World Health Organization warned that, by early October, there may be thousands of new cases per week in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria. What is not getting said publicly, despite briefings and discussions in the inner circles of the world’s public health agencies, is that we are in totally uncharted waters and that Mother Nature is the only force in charge of the crisis at this time.

There are two possible future chapters to this story that should keep us up at night.

The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world. This outbreak is very different from the 19 that have occurred in Africa over the past 40 years. It is much easier to control Ebola infections in isolated villages. But there has been a 300 percent increase in Africa’s population over the last four decades, much of it in large city slums. What happens when an infected person yet to become ill travels by plane to Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa or Mogadishu — or even Karachi, Jakarta, Mexico City or Dhaka?

The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air. You can now get Ebola only through direct contact with bodily fluids. But viruses like Ebola are notoriously sloppy in replicating, meaning the virus entering one person may be genetically different from the virus entering the next. The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.

If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola. Infections could spread quickly to every part of the globe, as the H1N1 influenza virus did in 2009, after its birth in Mexico.

Why are public officials afraid to discuss this? They don’t want to be accused of screaming “Fire!” in a crowded theater — as I’m sure some will accuse me of doing. But the risk is real, and until we consider it, the world will not be prepared to do what is necessary to end the epidemic.

In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans. Richard Preston’s 1994 best seller “The Hot Zone” chronicled a 1989 outbreak of a different strain, Ebola Reston virus, among monkeys at a quarantine station near Washington. The virus was transmitted through breathing, and the outbreak ended only when all the monkeys were euthanized. We must consider that such transmissions could happen between humans, if the virus mutates.
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(The last link that says, "Ebola Bio Kits Deployed to National Guard Units In All 50 States" is the one link that should wake you up and make you realize that the obama regime knows the ebola virus is headed this way.) Story Reports