Health and Wellness : US Ebola Issues - and Patient Treatments

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Dallas nurses cite sloppy conditions in Ebola care


Deborah Burger of National Nurses United, who convened a conference call with reporters to relay what she said were concerns of nurses at the hospital, said they were forced to use medical tape to secure openings in their flimsy garments and worried that their necks and heads were exposed as they cared for Duncan.

RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of Nurses United, said the statement came from "several" and "a few" nurses, but she refused repeated inquiries to state how many. She said the organization had vetted the claims, and that the nurses cited were in a position to know what had occurred at the hospital. She did not specify whether they were among the nurses caring for Duncan.


http://news.yahoo.com/dallas-nurses-cite-sloppy-conditions-ebola-care-042120774.html



 
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Obama cancels campaign trip to focus on Ebola


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President Barack Obama walks from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, upon his return from a meeting at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The president met with military chiefs in a show of strength against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama abruptly canceled a planned campaign trip Wednesday and planned to convene his Cabinet at the White House instead, as U.S. officials grappled with the widening Ebola crisis.

The White House said Obama's trip to New Jersey and Connecticut would be postponed to a later date. Obama was to speak to reporters on Wednesday afternoon after meeting with top officials who are coordinating the government's response to Ebola.


http://news.yahoo.com/obama-finds-place-campaign-connecticut-071454845--politics.html




 
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Second US Ebola case 'very concerning,' more possible


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Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, listens while US President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press after a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House October 6, 2014 in Washington, DC (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)


The second woman should not have boarded a domestic flight in the days before she was diagnosed, though there was an "extremely low likelihood" that she could have infected fellow travelers, said Thomas Frieden, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"She was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to Ebola. She should not have traveled on a commercial airline," Frieden told reporters.

CDC guidelines outline the need for "controlled movement," and that does not include taking any kind of public transportation, he said.


http://news.yahoo.com/us-ebola-patient-not-boarded-plane-cdc-173300884.html



 
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Report: Texas Ebola Nurses Had No Protective Gear For Two Days


Frieden and Health and Human Services secretary Burwell said it’s very unlikely that Vinson spread the virus on the plane, but the CDC is attempting to contact all passengers and crew for interviewing.

Both Texas Presbyterian and the CDC have come under fire for their slow response. Burwell admitted Wednesday that the federal government could have provided “much better oversight” of the hospital, echoing Frieden’s admission earlier this week that the CDC should have sent in more experts, more quickly.

Pham, the first nurse infected, will remain in Dallas to be treated for the time being, but Vinson, the second nurse infected, will be transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

http://news.yahoo.com/report-texas-ebola-nurses-had-no-protective-gear-200612423.html


 
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Ebola-stricken nurse Pham to be treated near Washington


Washington (AFP) - The first person infected with Ebola in the United States is being transferred from a Texas hospital to the National Institutes of Health near the US capital, officials said Thursday.

Nurse Nina Pham was to arrive later Thursday at the facility located in Bethesda, Maryland.

"We will be supplying her with state-of-the-art care in our high-level containment facilities," Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a Congressional hearing.




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The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where health care worker Nina Pham was being treated for the Ebola virus, is seen on October 14, 2014 in Dallas, Texas (AFP Photo/Mike Stone)

http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-nurse-nina-pham-treated-nih-near-washington-170308343.html


 

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