The CDC posted a transcript of a phone conference regarding how US Hospitals Shoukd handle Ebola patients. Unlike the anecdotes posted here with zero proof. This is REAL.
Here are the more salient points:
1. CDC Confirms this is the Zaire strain of Ebola. (One of the worst).
2. Two callers asked the CDC about Ebola dead body handling. One was
Connie at Emory for Dr. Ribner (who is treating Brantly and Writebol); and Chris Lehr, (possibly out if a Kansas hospital)
Chris Lehr:
Hi. We wanted to know if you have a recommendation about handling a body and what kind of information does the hospital need to provide to the mortuary for disposal of the body?
Dr. David Kuhar:
We do not currently have guidance on the handling of dead bodies but it is under development.
Connie-... This is Connie ... at Emory University Hospital. And I’m asking this question for Dr. Bruce Ribner but you had answered it early on. His question was guidance for handling dead bodies if you had guidelines developed yet? And you answered that you were working on them I believe.
Dr. David Kuhar:
Hi. This is David Kuhar. Yes that guidance is under development and coming soon.
(Although this is not the final transcript, look at Silver's question to the CDC, the wording seems to suggest anticipation ir the presence of an infected person in CA)
Jeffrey Silvers, which IMO, upon information and belief, is an infectious disease doctor affiliated with two hospitals in California.
Jeffrey Silvers:
...My question relates to laboratory testing that is done on a known Ebola virus patient who is hospitalized such as handling a urine specimen for urinalysis, CBC for blood smears and other fluids for cell counts and glucose et cetera.
Dr. Barbara Knust:
This is Barbara Knust speaking. And we are currently developing recommendations to deal with the specific questions about in house laboratory testing and safety. And so we will be coming out with those soon.
The CDC confirmed what I have suspected, that this is the Zaire strain,one of the worst Ebola variants. However, Marlburg Virus is also mentioned as a disease source. Um...what?!
Dr. Knust/ CDC
"And so, in terms of the overview of Ebola virus disease, first we’ll talk about Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever which are both kinds of filoviruses.
There is five different species of Ebola virus and one species of Marburg virus. The Ebola virus species that is currently the source of the outbreak in West Africa is called Zaire Ebolavirus or just Ebola virus for short.
Previous outbreaks of Zaire Ebolavirus were located in Central Africa. This was the first outbreak of Zaire Ebolavirus that’s been found in West Africa and the there is only one previous single case of Ebola virus that had occurred in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1994.
And so that was - this is the first time that we’ve seen an Ebola virus outbreak certainly with multiple people involved in this part of the world.
But because of the ecology of the virus we have - we are not necessarily considering to - it that to be all that unusual because in terms of the filovirus ecology we believe that bats are the most likely reservoir of Ebola viruses.
Marburg virus is very closely related as we had mentioned before. And we know that the reservoir for Marburg virus is the Egyptian fruit bat."
It's a sad day when the mainstream media is complicit and/or fails to inform its viewers about the real situation, but there you have it folks. Leave it to us to read, verify, and share the truth, even when it sucks. You can see the entire transcript here:
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link to emergency.cdc.gov]
United States
