The survival rate
for Ebola patients can reach almost 50% with simple things like
constantly monitored Ivs. However, with already exhausted nurses and
doctors the survival rate is far less. Those treating an infected
sick friend and fellow worker seem to have a knack for catching it.
Cuba's fresh teams
of medical workers are more than handy. A sick nurse or doctor should
not be treated by a friend, especially if the friend is exhausted.
Being sent to a Cuban team would be ideal,
A coordinated
approach is needed in other ways as well.
It is a mistake to
think the US will be ravaged with Ebola, unless the US does something
stupid like putting the Tea Party in charge. However, the Nigerian
economy has all but collapsed from lack of transportation and trade
due to Ebola. In a sudden decrease in trade and travel effecting the
world economy, including the US, far fewer in this country will vote
Democrat or Republican. So far the far-right has been more on the
ball than the left.
An Ebola epidemic in
this country could be stopped in its tracks with free medical care
and paid sick leave for all flu-like symptoms, including undocumented
immigrants but politics might get in the way. An undocumented worker
checked for Ebola, found clean, then deported would cause immigrants
to hide or be less talkative, spreading Ebola around this country.
Any degree of an Ebola epidemic would devastate the US economy.
Lack of health care
in general is also behind the Ebola epidemic in Africa. Malaria is
ravaging the place. Many with flu-like systems are actually hiding
from the medical police. Because of the malaria locals are dumping,
DDT (banned by most of world) piecemeal. If instead there was
professional spraying far less DDT would enter the food chain in the
long run. If when someone turned themselves in for flu-like
conditions if they had malaria or something else which would be
aggressively treated plus a big bag of rice for the entire family,
people with a flu-condition would stop trying to hide. The following
link is a snapshot of what we are facing which will not be solved by
the US placing high-tech around,
I remember when the
Left used to praise Cuba, perhaps we must start doing this again for
our own countries survival.
Blood from Ebola
survivors has been given to new Ebola victims with some positive
result. It has been tried several times before and is certainly no
miracle. However, clearly being cured of Ebola offers some protection
against getting it again. Some in West Africa are apparently also
immune, though why is not certain,
Ebola
survivors
can work without all the gloves and masks. However, they would have
to wait 14 days in isolation before coming out to the outside
world
again.
This is something an exhausted Doctors Without Borders clinic
couldn't deal with. Cuba could implement this if one or two US
survivors would join them and soon perhaps many
of the more than 200 survivor in Sierra Leone get jobs working with
Ebola treatment centers. Ordinary West Africans might be hired as
well. At the moment selling survivors
blood is a nasty black market with the donor getting very little of
the money. Working with or near patients plus a little money for
donating
blood
could become institutionalized. At the present we just have massive
profits for a few and massive dumping of DDT over a limited area.
West African medical personnel
with
experience in past Ebola outbreaks are working in Liberia, in
conjunction
with the few American volunteers,
not where the Cubans are in Sierra Leone. A
coordinated approach, including the Cubans would help enormously,
The US working with
Cuba is real national security both against our disease enemies like
Ebola and our human ones like al Qaeda and ISIS.
See, how Ebola can
inspire Free Health Care in the US now,
I have been
unsuccessfully trying to submit this to Progeso and Progressive publications, but submit buttons are are hard to find I hope for help from readers.
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