Here we go again. WTF is with these healthcare professionals? This idiot doctor comes back from Africa 12 days ago after treating Ebola patients. Does this asshole quarantine himself for 21 days? No. He goes out and about coming in contact with who knows how many people. Far as I'm concerned this nitwit is criminally negligent and should lose his license to practice. Fucking moron! No wonder these dumb son of a bitches are dying like flies while treating people in Africa. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A physician with Doctors without Borders who returned from West Africa recently and developed potential symptoms was being tested for Ebola at a New York City hospital, health officials said on Thursday, setting off fresh fears about the spread of the virus. The doctor was identified as Craig Spencer, who was working for the humanitarian organization in Guinea, one of three West African nations hardest hit by Ebola. Spencer, 33, developed a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms and notified Doctors Without Borders on Thursday morning, the organization said in a statement.
Confirmed. The idiot doctor has Ebola. Will it be reported how reckless and irresponsible this nitwit has been? We'll see. Other news in NY City and obvious terrorist attack against police today, wounding two officers. Will that be reported as terrorism? We'll see. Keep shopping folks. It's all good. NEW YORK (AP) — A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, according to preliminary test results, city officials said Thursday. http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/23/us/new-york-police-attacked/index.html
Any medical worker who had been in West Africa and returns to the U.S. needs to be quarantined for a period of 21 days. Back in the days of sail, ships that came from diseased ports were quarantined and not allowed to enter harbor for a period of three weeks.
Potential Ebola vaccine was shelved for almost a decade http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/wor...d-for-years/bW90lPjH23jYm6c6M2Og5J/story.html Almost a decade ago, scientists from Canada and the United States reported that they had created a vaccine that was 100 percent effective in protecting monkeys against the Ebola virus. The results were published in a respected journal, and health officials called them exciting. The researchers said tests in people might start within two years, and a product could potentially be ready for licensing by 2010 or 2011. It never happened. The vaccine sat on a shelf. Only now, with nearly 5,000 people dead from Ebola and an epidemic raging out of control in West Africa, is the vaccine undergoing the most basic safety tests in humans. Its development stalled in part because Ebola was rare, and until now outbreaks had infected only a few hundred people at a time. But experts also acknowledge that the lack of follow-up on such a promising candidate reflects a broader failure to produce medicines and vaccines for diseases that afflict poor countries. Most drug companies have resisted spending the enormous sums needed to develop products useful mostly to poor countries with little ability to pay for them. Now, as the growing epidemic devastates West Africa and is seen as a potential threat to other regions as well, governments and aid groups have begun to open their wallets. A flurry of research to test drugs and vaccines is underway, with clinical trials starting for several candidates, including the vaccine produced nearly a decade ago. With no vaccines or proven drugs currently available, the stepped up efforts are a desperate measure to stop a disease that has defied traditional means of containing it. “There’s never been a big market for Ebola vaccines,” said Thomas W. Geisbert, an Ebola expert here at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and one of the developers of the vaccine that worked so well in monkeys. “So big pharma, who are they going to sell it to?” Geisbert added: “It takes a crisis sometimes to get people talking. ‘OK. We’ve got to do something here.’” Dr. James E. Crowe Jr., director of a vaccine research center at Vanderbilt University, said that academic researchers who develop a prototype drug or vaccine that works in animals often encountered a “biotech valley of death” in which no drug company would help them cross the finish line. Up to that point, the research may have cost a few million dollars, but tests in humans and scaling up production can cost hundreds of millions, and bringing a new vaccine all the way to market typically costs $1 billion to $1.5 billion, Crowe said. “Who’s going to pay for that?” he asked. “People invest in order to get money back,” Crowe added. The Ebola vaccine on which Geisbert collaborated is made from another virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, which causes a mouth disease in cattle but rarely infects people. It had already been used successfully in making other vaccines. The researchers altered VSV by removing one of its genes — rendering the virus harmless — and inserting a gene from Ebola. The transplanted gene forces VSV to sprout Ebola proteins on its surface. The proteins cannot cause illness, but they provoke an immune response that in monkeys, considered a good surrogate for humans, fought off the disease. The vaccine was actually produced, in Winnipeg by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The Canadian government patented it, and 800 to 1,000 vials of the vaccine were produced. In 2010, it licensed the vaccine, known as VSV-EBOV, to NewLink Genetics, in Ames, Iowa. The Canadian government donated the existing vials to the World Health Organization, and safety tests of the vaccine in healthy volunteers have already begun.
This is what our future will look like in the U.S. if we don't stop people flying from West Africa to the U.S. "The entire city is covered with bodies. There's nothing we can do."
Republican Congressman Is Unaware There Is No Surgeon General To Head Ebola Response Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) says Ron Klain is "off to a bad start" in his new role as the president's Ebola response coordinator, and that the U.S. Surgeon General should be the one leading the effort. But what Chaffetz doesn't seem to realize is that there hasn't been a surgeon general for more than a year. “Why not have the surgeon general head this up?" Chaffetz asked in a Wednesday appearance on Fox News. "I think that’s a very legitimate question. At least you have somebody who has a medical background whose been confirmed by the United States Senate.” “It begs the question, what does the surgeon general do?" he added. "Why aren’t we empowering that person?” President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as the nation's top doctor in late 2013, but his nomination has stalled in the Senate ever since. The reason? The National Rifle Association has been pressuring Republicans and conservative Democrats to oppose him over his positions on gun control. Murthy has advocated for an assault weapons ban, and in 2012, he tweeted that gun violence is "a health care issue." That didn't sit well with the NRA's chief. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/jason-chaffetz-surgeon-general_n_6036544.html
Dems could easily approve a Surgeon General with a 51 vote, filibuster proof, simple majority ever since Harry Reid went nuclear. You should be asking "Why hasn't Harry brought the vote to the floor?"