Special Report From Ray: America begins to face its own Ebola virus

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Fear and an even greater caution has gripped the entire staff at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas. That’s where Ebola virus victim Thomas Duncan of Liberia died Wednesday.

 

 

Special Report From Ray: America begins to face its own Ebola virus

 

WORLDWIDE NEWS FROM RAY

A free service of Jesus Christ is Lord Ministries

News written and delivered by Ray Mossholder

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

 

Hello America.  Hello world.

From the headquarters of reachmorenow.com in Fort Worth, Texas, this is Ray Mossholder and this is a special report: America Now Faces It’s Own Ebola Virus.

 

Fear, and an even greater caution, has gripped the entire staff at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas. That’s where Ebola virus victim Thomas Duncan of Liberia died Wednesday. Sunday a nurse, 26-year-old Nina Pham, who had been caring for Duncan was diagnosed with the same Ebola virus symptoms that took Mr. Duncan’s life after ten days of treatment in the hospital.  Tom Duncan went through kidney dialysis and used a breathing machine.

Nina is believed to have the very first case of this type of Ebola virus that has originated in the United States. A man in Braintree, Massachusetts, near Boston, was initially believed to have the virus but after a thorough examination the doctors declared he didn’t.

Dr. David Lakey, who is the Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said that Nina began with a low grade fever Friday night. He also said “We knew a second case could be a reality, and we’ve been preparing for this possibility. We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent a further spread.”

Meanwhile, many hospitals all over our country are establishing hospital drills, 911 emergency operator guidelines, and everything else that may be called into action within minutes, including the right thickness of body bags. The Ebola virus has thrown hospitals into an emergency learning curve.

However, in spite of what they are doing, out of 1900 nurses in 46 states, 76% of nurses say their hospital has not given them an official policy on how Ebola victims are to be handled, and 85% say they haven’t provided educational training sessions on the possible epidemic where they could interact and ask questions. 37% of these nurses also said they don’t believe their hospital has the equipment necessary to treat Ebola victims. That has prompted the largest union and professional association of nurses in America – National Nurses United – to respond by saying “We want the first line of defense to be the most prepared. Our hospitals are resisting us. The CDC doesn’t say we need hazmat suits. If this doesn’t change dramatically, we will picket every hospital in this country if we have to.”

While nurses throughout America are equipped to handle measles epidemics and massive nationwide cases of the flu, it is obvious that this virus demands an entirely new approach that no one planned for.

After a handful of people received the necessary drug – ZMAPP – to restore Ebola victims, the drug was completely depleted. It will be months before it is ready at all again. That’s because the drug industries never expected any such outbreak in America any more than the hospitals did. This African plague has hit everyone with horrible surprise.

Thomas Duncan was 42. He had flown to America so that he could watch his son graduate from high school. Born and raised in Liberia, he fled that country when war was raging in it. After the war he returned home to find another kind of war – a war against the Ebola virus that is now ravaging his and nearby nations and has ended his life.

Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Nigeria, as well as Liberia, have been besieged with the dreadful disease. More than 7,000 cases of Ebola have struck these countries and almost half of the people who have had the disease – more than 3,300 – have died from it. The World Health Organization has declared this is the biggest outbreak of any disease since the organization began and it is the deadliest. Meanwhile, nurses in Liberia are threatening to go on strike because they are not being given their wages. If this happened it could cause the Ebola epidemic to become impossible to stop.

And what is happening in these African nations now, according to the CDC, is only the tip of the iceberg. They predict a possible 1.4 million cases there by January 2015 even if the nurse’s stay on the job.

Now that this nurse has contracted the dreaded virus in America, fear is spreading from the hospital throughout the nation much faster than the Ebola virus ever could. Everyone from President Obama to the doctors at the Presbyterian Hospital are attempting to ease the situation by telling us that they do not believe the Ebola virus can be easily caught. Still, some scientists are now saying they believe that once symptoms of the virus have started in someone, they could spread it whenever they cough or sneeze. They call the spreading of Ebola in that form “aerosol droplets.”                                                       

Medical sanitation in America is tremendously different than in the several nations of Africa. More than 370 doctors, nurses, and health aid workers have died in Africa since this plague began because they are most prone to contracting the virus from those they care for.

Although Thomas Duncan showed no signs of Ebola when he boarded the Liberian plane on September 20, it is known that less than a week before, he had been attempting to help a pregnant woman neighbor with the virus who shortly afterward died. It is assumed by doctors that this was where he received the germs that later killed him. The fact that the virus shows no symptoms for at least two weeks after contact with an Ebola carrier is why he was unaware that he was a carrier too. During the time of incubation prior to the symptoms breaking out, a carrier is not dangerous to anyone. People aboard the plane he flew on were therefore safe from infection.

At the elementary school where five children had been in the company of Tom Duncan, every precaution is still being taken to isolate the virus. Mike Miles, Superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District said “Our nurses are making two rounds every school day to every classroom just to check if anyone has questions or if there are any symptoms in any of them. Each classroom is being sanitized daily.”

What is known about the Ebola virus at this moment is that it is contracted through an Ebola victim’s bodily fluids, such as vomit, feces, blood, saliva, urine or semen. According to the World Health Organization the main two causes are an Ebola victims feces or vomit.

Federal doctors have already zeroed in on why Nurse Nina Pham contracted Ebola. They agree that it must have been what they call “a breach in protocol.” It has been confirmed by the hospital that she wore protective garb on every occasion of being close to the now dead Duncan and the doctors have no trace of how it happened. But some of the staff at the Texas hospital are blaming the CDC for not monitoring Nurse Pham each time she left Tom Duncan. Instead, she simply monitored herself.

Doctor Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said whatever the nurse did wrong, she was undoubtedly unaware of it at the time. For example, she could have been touched by any part of Duncan’s bodily fluids without even knowing it while she was removing the protective gear after serving him. She may also have contacted one of his bodily fluids while inserting tubes into his blood vessels or helping to get air into his airway.

The Dallas Presbyterian hospital is no longer admitting anyone into their emergency room and has sealed it off while staff members treat Nurse Pham. At this moment, doctors report that she is in “stable condition.”

48 members of Tom Duncan’s family and friends of the family are still being monitored for the disease. However, at this time none of them show any symptoms. Nina Pham  had only two people that she had spent time with during the two weeks the virus lay dormant. She also has a beautiful dog that, though quarantined at this time, hopefully can be returned to her when she is well. Her two friends are now being carefully monitored and are also being quarantined.             

The only other known victim living outside Africa who contracted the Ebola virus is in Spain. She is a nurse who spent much time caring for a missionary priest in a Madrid hospital. At last report she is “showing signs of improvement.”

In England, hospital and emergency services are undergoing an intensive drill in preparation for possible cases of Ebola.

As five major airports in America began a new kind of screening on Saturday that includes checking for Ebola symptoms, our borders continue to go unchecked as people from all nations continue to pour in with whatever condition each is in and no matter what they are carrying. There is something dreadfully wrong with this picture.

 

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

A wise man learns from the experience of others.

An ordinary man learns from his own experience.

A fool learns from nobody’s experience.

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Special Report From Ray: America begins to face its own Ebola virus