Special Report From Ray: America Begins To Face Its Own Ebola Virus

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Special Report From Ray: America Begins To Face Its Own Ebola VirusFear, 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, neither of which restored him.

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 thathe didn’t. It is now known that as many as 70 staff members at the hospital aided in the care of Thomas Duncan in the ten days he was being treated. Each of them is being carefully monitored for any signs of the disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also announced Sunday morning that someone who was in close contact with Nurse Nina Pham before she came down with Ebola, is now also in the isolation ward at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and being monitored for any Ebola symptoms.

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.”

Doctor Kent Brantly, who worked for Samaritan’s Purse, was flown by that organization from Liberia to a hospital in Atlanta where he recovered from Ebola. Since then he has given blood transfusions to two Ebola victims. Once it was discovered that his blood type and Nina’s also matched, he flew to Dallas to give her a transfusion too. He would have gladly done the same for Thomas Duncan, but their blood were of two different types.

According to medical science, short of using the experimental drug ZMAPP which brought healing to Doctor Brantly from the same strain of Ebola virus that is raging now in five African nations, the blood of a person healed from Ebola is full of the Ebola ingredients needed to heal others.

On November 10, Doctor Brantly gave blood to Doctor Rick Sacra who had also contracted Ebola while serving in a Liberian hospital. Last week he sent his blood donation to Omaha to help another victim.

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 measle epidemics and massive nationwide cases of the flu, it is obvious that this virus demands an entirely new approach that no one planned for.

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. There have been eight thousand, nine hundred and fourteen cases of Ebola that have struck these countries since the first case in December 2013, and four thousand, four hundred and forty-seven – have died from it as of today.

The World Health Organization has declared this is the biggest outbreak of any disease since the organization began and it is the deadliest. It declared today that in two months there could be up to ten thousand new cases every single week. Even now there are more than one thousand new cases weekly.

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, there are some scientists 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 vomit or blood.

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.

Jennifer Joseph, another nurse at the hospital, said Nina trained her and she is now confused. Jennifer said “She is one of the most meticulous, thorough, effective nurses. She taught me infection control, hand hygiene and protocol. I learned so much of that from her. Now what am I to think?”

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. This morning doctors reported that she is in “clinically stable” condition. They said she is cheerful and has talked with her mother by phone.

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 King Charles Spaniel that, though quarantined at this time, hopefully can be returned to her when she recovers. Her two friends are now being carefully monitored and are also being quarantined, one of them also in the hospital.

Nina Pham was raised by a Vietnamese family in Fort Worth. Friends describe her as a very active Christian. She attends mass regularly at the Lady of Fatima Church in Fort Worth. Nina graduated from Texas Christian University in 2010 after earning a Bachelor of Science in nursing. In August 2010, she received her nursing license and this year qualified as a critical care nurse.

Tom Ha, who teaches Nina’s Bible class, told the Dallas Morning News “The family is very dedicated to Christ. They go out of their way to help people. I expect, with the big heart she has, she went beyond what she was supposed to do to help anyone in need.”

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.”

Meanwhile comes the sad news that a United Nations medical worker who was infected by the Ebola in Liberia has died in a Berlin hospital. His name has not been released. Two other health workers who had been working in Liberia and contracted the disease were flown to German hospitals for treatment. The first man has recovered and returned home. But the Uganda aid is still being treated in Frankfurt.

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

As JFK airport in New York began a new kind of screening on Saturday that includes checking for Ebola symptoms; and Newark Liberty, Washington Dulles, Chicago O’Hare, and Hartsfield–Jackson in Atlanta will do the same beginning this week. But our borders continue to go unchecked as hundreds of people from all nations continue to pour in with whatever condition each is in and no matter what they are carrying.

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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