Possible Ebola In VZ Kills 8 In 72 Hrs - Hospital Quarantined

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By Patricia Doyle 
9-13-14

Hello, Jeff – I have to wonder if Ebola has made its way to Latin American.  I have suspected that we would see cases along Coastal South America, specifically Brazil and Venezuela.  If this is yet, another virus, and NOT Ebola, will we see this one popping up along the US border and into the Mid West as we have with Whooping Cough, Scabies, TB, Chagas, and Enterovirus 68 to name a few.

We really need to get volunteers into Africa to stop the Ebola outbreak.  The CDC is offering a course in Alabama for health care workers who would then deploy to W Africa.

One thing that I feel we could do is send over some Navy hospital ships to care for Ebola victims.  Specifically, we could save many children and young mothers if we could treat them quickly and in better surroundings.  That would free up beds in the Ebola field hospitals for men and adolescent young men.

Sending troops and military police, as I fear Obama will do, does little to help the patients with the virus or prevent those who do not have Ebola from contracting it.

There is a state of the art ship that can house 5,000+
patients.  It has three operating rooms.  It was scheduled to go to W Africa when it was cancelled as Ebola was too risky for the crew whose accommodations were deemed too close to the Ebola patients.  So, now the ship sits in water off the Canary Islands.  

If it cannot be made to house isolation patients *which I think it can house isolation patients with a bit of refitting) then send the ship and allow it to treat Malaria, HIV etc patients.  This would free up field hospitals to treat more Ebola patients.

In any event, forget the soldiers who have military experience, police with police experience and get help, medical and veterinary research people into ships and send them S T A T!  If not, will will be fighting Ebola on our own turf.

Patty

UNDIAGNOSED HEMORRHAGIC FEVER – VENEZUELA: (ARAGUA) FATAL, REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

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Date: Thu 11 Sep 2014
Source: La Patilla [in Spanish, trans. Mod.MPP, edited]

http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2014/09/11/ocho-muertos-en-hospital-central-de-maracay-por-enfermedad-no-identificada/

El Carabobeno [a news media source] reports that on Thu 11 Sep 2014, Angel Sarmiento, President of the Physician’s College of the state of Aragua, noted that in the last 72 hours 8 people have died in the Maracay Central Hospital from an unidentified illness.

At the press conference, the doctor stated that they had treated 4 adults and 4 children, who presented with generalized malaise, fever, spots on the body, which then became blisters and internal hemorrhages.

Sarmiento said in a Union Radio program that specimens have already been sent to the National Institute of Health in Caracas in order to determine the disease that is responsible for the death[s]. He denied that the Maracay Central Hospital was quarantined.

He rejected information that has been circulating on social networks about a possible isolation of the health center for this reason. He said that early in the morning there was an incident on the 1st floor, caused by the same patients, but it was not a formal decision taken by the health authorities.

He said that in the next few hours the Aragua Health Corporation (Corposalud) will issue a statement to confirm the 8 deaths and it is expected to provide more details of what happened and the investigations being carried out to clarify the causes of the deaths.

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