Dallas Ebola Patient Being Transferred to Emory
"I think it is too much to expect a hospital can become an Ebola treatment unit simply by reading guidelines," said Dr. Richard Besser, ABC's Medical Correspondent and a former CDC director.
One question that has been raised is why Duncan was not transported from Dallas to one of the two other hospitals with specialized isolation units -- one in Omaha, Nebraska, and the other at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia -- which have successfully treated Ebola patients.
No healthcare workers at the Omaha or Atlanta facilities have reported infections after treating three Ebola patients at Emory University Hospital and Ashoka Mukpo, the American reporter currently in treatment at Nebraska Medical Center.
"I feel very strongly that the approach that has been taken is wrong. Patients with Ebola should be treated in special facilities that have been training to take care of patients with deadly contagious diseases," Besser said.
"Given that patients from Liberia have been safely transported to these units, it should be possible to safely transport patients to these units from any hospital in America," he said.
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If that's what it takes to safely treat Ebola patients what chance do the care givers have in Africa?
And if they can't even avoid infection themselves how can they arrest the spread of the disease?
What is the mortality rate among care givers?
In the movies, in the end, someone always wants to nuke the infected area.
By the time anyone seriously wants to do that it will be too late, there will be pockets of infection all around the world.
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