How is such incident, involving the health care worker who examined Mr Duncan in the hospital ER and failed to pass on the very important information revealed by Mr Duncan regarding his country of origin, supposed to justify your previous remark of "Doctors seems to get infected way too often for someone who is well educated and prepared not to get infected" ?
It does not justify and it is not directly related.
Fact is, number of western doctors or nurses got infected.
And again, those individuals were infected while serving in Liberia! Not while exercising in any medical facility in the US.This time around, make the effort to carefully read this :
Further, it appears you did not pay attention to the factors I clearly detailed which unfortunately contribute to a higher risk of exposure and contamination for health care workers in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Even the most prepared and educated health care workers/professionals run a higher risk of exposure and contamination based on those factors when they serve in those treatment facilities located in all 3 affected nations.
Did you or not pay attention to the factors I had clearly detailed in my initial post? Do you have any counter argumentation to present refuting those factors?
And another fact is, they released a guy with ebola.
That fact is not in question. What is in question is your continuous babbling about "number of western doctors and nurses got infected" despite of my having clearly detailed all the factors involved in facilitating contamination for health care professionals and workers located in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Which those factors are not present in the US.
This outbreak is clearly different from previous ones
and I think it's not reasonable anymore to assume that this strain of ebola is not different.
Do you have any clinical data to provide supporting that assumption? Surely, you must have done some homework on the variety of Ebola strains, non? Such as The Ivory Coast ebolavirus (CIEBOV), the Reston ebolavirus,(RESTV) the Sudan ebolavirus (SEBOV), Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV).
All the cited strains ,except for the Reston, share in common the vector of non airborne contamination. Reston being transmittable by air. Air transmittable pathogens being the MOST infectious versus direct physical contact with the bodily secretions of an infected individual as the identified vector. So, at this point, if any legitimate concern for a "different strain", it would be one with the property of an airborne vector. However what we already know regarding the Reston type (airborne) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston_virus
Reston virus (abbreviated RESTV) was first described in 1990 as a new "strain" of Ebola virus (EBOV), a result of mutation from Ebola virus.[1] It is the single member of the species Reston ebolavirus, which is included into the genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, order Mononegavirales.[2] Reston virus is named after Reston, Virginia, US, where the virus was first discovered.
RESTV was discovered in crab-eating macaques from Hazleton Laboratories (now Covance) in 1989. This attracted significant media attention due to the proximity of Reston to the Washington, DC metro area, its ability to be transmitted through the air, and the lethality of a closely related Ebola virus. Despite its status as a level-4 organism, Reston virus is non-pathogenic to humans, though hazardous to monkeys;[3][4] the perception of its lethality was compounded by the monkey's coinfection with Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV).[5]
Note :"Reston virus is non-pathogenic to humans". And despite of being a level-4 organism.
Aside from the strains identified as non air transmittable, did you have in mind a new strain of Ebola the vector of which would be airborne? Is that part of your assumption? That is where I would ask you to provide clinical data supporting any theory that the current outbreak would result from a far more contagious strain than the previous ones. And far more contagious would imply air transmittable.
Further, I noticed that you did not comment on what I related regarding the effective containment of TB cases in the US.( and again far more infectious than Ebola) Why do you think a nation like Ivory Coast is still struggling to contain active TB? Are you familiar with containment requirements and which equipment is absolutely indispensable, to include the reality that containment requirements differ from one country to the other? If Ebola can be effectively contained in a First World nation like the US, it is NOT the case in nations like Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
An indicator of which nations are far better prepared to contain a potential epidemic is when searching for the list of nations who apply strict biosafety measures in their labs and testing facilities known as "maximum containment facilities" where they conduct research on highly infectious diseases . So far, when it comes to the African continent, only Gabon and South Africa are listed.
You are too unnecessary defensive about any criticism of health care professionals.
There is no defensiveness involved in my investing my time and energy informing you as to which factors present in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea facilitate a higher risk of contamination for health care workers and health care professionals than they would encounter in the US. I presented you with realities you appear to not have been aware of.
If you have any argumentation against what I presented and detailed, feel free to develop on your counter argumentation. Specifically the factors I had detailed in my post.
If by now you are still not comprehending why there is no reason to envision a scenario of "a number of nurses and doctors" exercising in health care facilities in the US becoming infected, I am not going to invest more of my time and energy repeating my arguments.
Once more and for the last time, the socio economical factors in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea contribute to undermining an efficient delivery of emergent health care to include infectious diseases control or/and prevention. That is not the case in a First World nation like the US. Get it?
