Ebola watch: 3 new patients monitored
Reports surfaced Tuesday afternoon of new patients just arrived from West Africa being monitored for Ebola infections.
Multiple news organizations reported that a man who had been in one of the three affected African countries who arrived at Newark International Airport was found to have fever and was transported to a local hospital.
In Chicago, a child and his parent were isolated in local hospital rooms after the youngster threw up during a flight from Liberia to O’Hare International Airport. Officials told the Chicago Tribune that the pair showed no other signs of infection and blood tests for the disease had not been performed. Both were being held in isolation out of an abundance of caution.
FIRESTONE LAUDED
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention applauded Firestone Liberia Inc. for its efforts to fight Ebola on a 185-square-mile rubber tree plantation it has operated in a rural county since 1926.
Ebola: All the latest headlines
On the plantation, Firestone provides health care for 80,000 Liberians and has had infection rate of 0.09 percent, much lower than the county where the plantation operates.
Firestone set up its own hospital and used an innovative quarantine strategy, the CDC said, to control the disease’s spread.
DAUNTING TASK
The New York Times detailed the United Nations’ assessment of the Ebola fight in Africa. It’s grim. More than 19,000 doctors and nurses are needed to get the epidemic under control, but, so far, the world has sent just a fraction of that number.
OVERREACTIONS DUJOUR
New York Magazine has collected an impressive list of Ebola paranoia throughout the United States.
Luckily, last week’s evacuation at Southwestern College in Chula Vista didn’t make the list. The incident occurred after a student lied about being on a plane with Ebola-positive nurse Amber Vinson in order to get her professor to excuse a previous absence.
BAD ROADS HURT EBOLA FIGHT
The New York Times explains how muddy, rutted, Liberian roads are worsening the already difficult process of getting the infected to hospitals. The story includes a heart-breaking moment where an infected man refuses, on the threat of violence, to get out of the back of an ambulance to receive treatment at a hospital.
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