<p>I’m only pretending to be at Canyon Ranch having a facial - if there are any fish I can’t see them on account of these cucumbers</p>
<p>you’ve got cukearacts?</p>
<p>I hear they can really impair vision. There is surgery for that.</p>
<p>Ooooh, is bay cranky because of the World Series?</p>
<p>Back on topic.
Ruh roh-- A woman who recently went through ebola screening at Liberty airport (Newark) after returning from caring for patients in Africa has a fever <a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/health/new-york-ebola-case/index.html”>NY official: Woman back from Africa gets fever - CNN; </p>
<p>After reading up on the requirements to volunteer as HCW and travel to West Africa, and what occurs if one does become ill while there,is quite concerning that more HCW will be arriving with it. The DWB website states if illness occurs the HCW has to be medivac flight at their OWN expense, suggests they check with their health insurance if policy will even cover it. Can you imagine what the cost to medivac a positive Ebola patient would be? Will this cause many of the HCW to leave prior to becoming symptomatic hoping they can make it back before illness sets in?</p>
<p>Quite a few infected HCW as of August 2014</p>
<p>Unprecedented number of medical staff infected with Ebola
<a href=“http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/25-august-2014/en/”>http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/25-august-2014/en/</a></p>
<p>To date, more than 240 health care workers have developed the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, and more than 120 have died.</p>
<p>This is going to be a very long winter. </p>
<p>You people have ruined my pedicures, my one frivolous thing in life!</p>
<p>I’m going to hang out with saintfan at the Canyon Ranch. That sounds like a good fantasy.</p>
<p>samiamy, that doesn’t sound right. Medical evacuation coverage is listed as a benefit:
<a href=“Career opportunities & benefits”>http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/work-us/work-field/benefits-opportunities</a></p>
<p>Vaccines…we are going to have to panic about something else. Frankly, those pedicure problems cause me to have shivers. </p>
<p><a href=“Ebola Vaccine, Ready for Test, Sat on the Shelf - The New York Times”>Ebola Vaccine, Ready for Test, Sat on the Shelf - The New York Times; </p>
<p>Other companies are working on cures too.</p>
<p>Ill find the link to what I read and post it</p>
<p>I was just talking to a doctor who had a friend, another doctor who volunteered in Guinea early in the outbreak. Before the volunteer doctor returned home to the United States, she quarantined herself in a home in Guinea, for 21 days. No contact with any Ebola patients during the 21 days before her flight home. </p>
<p>Sensible.</p>
<p>“Sensible”</p>
<p>And considerate. Managed to do it without being required to follow those guidelines, I’m guessing. A higher level of personal responsibility, she didn’t even get on a plane for 21 days.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usaid.gov/ebola/volunteers”>http://www.usaid.gov/ebola/volunteers</a>
This is for USAID, not DWB. Specifically for Ebola work.</p>
<p>The cheapest thing to do if one has ANY idea that one MAY need medical evacuation is to buy a policy like MedJetAssist.com. If you’re a AARP member when you join, you can get a substantial discount. You get to choose where you get medically evacuated to–from one hospital to another–hospital to hospital transfer. It sounds like a very reasonable “peace of mind.”</p>
<p>But good grief, these people are sacrificing months of their time, and endangering themselves, to deal with a problem which could affect the entire world. It seems wrong to me that they should also have to worry about medevac costs.</p>
<p>I can’t believe that their organizations wouldn’t spring for an insurance policy that covers medical evacuation. That is wrong, that’s the last thing they should have to worry about, is not being taken care of if the need arises.</p>
<p>Read the fine print of medical evacuation policies. They typically cover the expense of evacuating a traveler for emergency medical care that can not be provided at a local hospital. You are out of luck if the local hospital can provide the service or you are too sick to be transported.</p>
<p>The plan I referenced allows the PATIENT to have the choice to be moved from one hospital to the hospital she prefers, even if that is in a different country. The rates are quite reasonable, considering it gives the PATIENT that level of control. I’d think Doctors WIthout Borders could easily purchase a group policy for its staff that would cover this.</p>
<p>Anyone else heard about the healthcare worker in NJ developing a fever ? <a href=“Quarantined Traveler Who Returned To N.J. From West Africa Develops Fever - CBS New York”>http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/24/quarantined-traveler-who-returned-to-n-j-from-west-africa-develops-fever/</a></p>
<p>And this just popped up in my inbox:</p>
<p><a href=“Infections: Why Do I Keep Getting Them?”>Infections: Why Do I Keep Getting Them?;
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The evidence from this epidemic, and prior Ebola outbreaks, strongly suggests that the deadly virus cannot be transmitted through a cough or sneeze, said Dr. Armand Sprecher, a public health specialist with the aid organization Doctors Without Borders.</p>
<p>“If there were significant airborne transmission, we would see spontaneously generated cases that were not linked to a known case. There would be cases of casual transmission,” Sprecher said in response to questions from health professionals.</p>
<p>When experts investigate how people have contracted Ebola, “it inevitably tracks back to a significant exposure” involving direct contact with either a very sick person or a dead body teeming with the virus, Sprecher said.
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<p>Nice piece on Spencer’s fiancee. </p>
<p><a href=“Ebola Patient’s Fiancée Shares His Passion for Helping Those in Need, Friends Say - The New York Times”>Ebola Patient’s Fiancée Shares His Passion for Helping Those in Need, Friends Say - The New York Times;