Your post made me think of these ads that are on the buses in my city that just came out (sorry, I can't find a photo). It's actual newspapers from the 40s and 50s with headings like "5 more schools shut down after 10 children dead from Whooping Cough" and all that. Then this big black letters of VACCINATE YOUR…

I believe the CDC fucked up, too.

Agreed. Whenever I have a patient on contact or isolation precautions, I always follow policy of course re gloves/gown/mask etc but I still go home and think 'I might've gotten MRSA/VRE/C.Diff etc today'. Imagine if the patient had Ebola. nurses know better than anyone on a ward how things spread and how to prevent…

Do you have any idea if the hospital is making these healthcare workers sign waivers before sending them into potentially dangerous rooms? I've always had a soft spot for Presby because I was born there, but they need to be sued into oblivion if they didn't train their nurses properly on how to safely remove the…

um. Isn't it *already* the ebola pandemic? just not, you know, in america or europe?

I guess you missed the io9 article about this over a week ago. It is not very contagious since it is no airborne, but it is highly infectious—just a bit of contact is enough to get infected.

The left wing media denies anything is happening till it surpasses the ability for anyone to fix the problems. Then you liberals start with the lies and placing blame on the right. Great strategy you have there.

We know

I am more worried about tb over the long term. I saw a PBS documentary on MDR and XDR (extremely drug resistent) TB, and they are horrible illnesses that should be getting more attention. This ebola outbreak, though larger than those that came before it, will likely run its course without having a lasting impact here…

I just read that he had a temperature of 103 and knowing that he was from Liberia, the staff still sent him home. That is the discrete disconnect right there. I absolutely agree with your opinion about the cost of health care but I think it was a Friday night and even if he did have a PCP, the clinic would have been…

I am in favor of universal healthcare, but I absolutely disagree with this assessment. I am an American who became very and suddenly I'll while visiting the UK. They did exactly what you suggest would not be done. Gave me antibiotics and pain killers and told me to go home to America where they were better able to…

I doubt MD Anderson would have screwed this up; this hospital messed up badly but not all are terrible. Still, I'm flummoxed that they would have sent home a Liberian with a 103 temperature. Mind-boggling.

Jezebel is so progressive; you can be black, a POC, trans, differently abled, mentally ill, poly, just a plain slut, criminally minded (as long as you're jamming The Man)...just don't be the worst thing you can possibly be: 55 or older.

I would be way more worried about the spread of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. It is far more prevalent and easier to catch. And the super-strong medicines required to cure it can have unpleasant and permanent side effects. I don't know this for sure, but I think before the advent of antibiotics catching it was a…

Also, a lot of people are not only going to lie to official but will be in total denial about being sick so will essentially lie to themselves about the possibility they have a fatal disease.

I'm sticking with my previously-expressed theory that this is either more contagious than originally thought/stated, or is mutating to become more contagious.

I not worried (yet) about catching it myself, because I'm not in a high risk group, but I am getting concerend about the possibility of a substantial outbreak in the US. I know we have the infastructure to contain an outbreak before it reaches pandemic levels, but I have a bad feeling many more lives may be lost…

I keep picking up vibes in the media about how "terrible" the health care professionals are for not doing enough, and I'm all, doing what? Their ranks are decimated, their families have kicked them out of their homes in fear, they're surrounded by the dying, they have no equipment or supplies, the government is a bad…

Presby hospital is 5 miles down the road from my apartment and this nurse's apartment complex is 3 blocks away from mine. All are on the same street. I feel like Ebola is just traveling down Greenville STRAIGHT TO ME.

I won't accept Florida/Texas similarities until we have someone eat off someone else's face.