To date, the West African outbreak has killed over 700 people.
Setting for caring for those ill with Ebola in Africa:
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Setting for caring for those ill with Ebola in North America
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Here is the decontamination facility in use in Africa
A comparable facility for decontamination in the US
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How protective garments (boots, gloves, and contamination suits) are prepared for re-use in Africa
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How protective garments (boots, gloves, and contamination suits) are prepared for re-use in the US. For the most part, they are not reused, but incinerated.
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Nature's Declan Butler has an excellent summary.
Posted by: LIz Ditz | Sunday, August 03, 2014 at 11:22 AM
One of my FB friends is posting a rumor I hadn't heard of before: those who survive Ebola are carriers via bodily fluids for "months" afterwards so it will become an STD.
Also, a much more credible FB friend has been posting that the two Americans being treated at Emory are getting all the press, but a third American was not permitted to return because the CDC would not airlift him and he couldn't take commercial flights for obvious reasons. He was black. He's now a dead black American health worker.
Factchecking?
Posted by: Kathryn | Wednesday, August 06, 2014 at 02:31 AM