What did medical workers do to try to keep Ebola under control?
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well, they had a military hospital that was highly secured & they quarrantined the ebola patients & the medical workers had to suit up in these suits, they had to shower before getting in the suits & afterwards, they did not go into the room with the ebola patients.  Unfortunately there was nothing they could really do but detect the virus & kept the paitents in quarrantine until they died since there is no cure & treatment.
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It really depends on who you are looking to help.\n\nThe children need clothing and school supplies.  Many NGO's (non-profits) are set up to keep kids in school and off the streets.  \n\nFamiles need food, clothing, etc, which can be donated again to the NGO's.\n\nCambodia also had very poor medical facilities and practice. Dentists are set up on the street and hospitals are almost non-existant.  The sick and unhealthy really need help with medical supplies, doctor and medical assistance, and many need shots to keep them health for the future.
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Sounds like that Liberian Minister of Scratchflopp who needs your bank account number to bring his millions here.\nWe're being killed because stupid politicians allowed, for the first time in recorded history, the existence of a fatal infectious condition to be kept secret.\nWe have no cure for ANY viral disease yet; just a couple vaccines for a few strains. \nWhy stop research? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's death, dummy.
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The reason for the spread of HIV, where ever a person might live, is pretty much the people's own actions.  With the info we have now, barring blood transfusions (and even then rare since blood is tested) and freaky things like a maniac poking someone with an infected needle, the disease is almost 100% preventable. It is quite simple.  Don't hop into bed with everyone you see.  Don't do intravenous drugs.  How hard is that?
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Usually end up getting sedated.\n\nDamn hospital workers.
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It's a way for Western European countries and US to control Africa. It is definitely. Many Africans have told me that.\nI also believe that cancer is another biological weapon to control eastern countries!\nI don't think they care if some of "their" people has any of this diseases.\nWhy do you think they come up with ways to extend life and not cure the disease? They want to make money. They want people to be depended on them, so that they can control them.\nEverybody has the same chance of getting AIDS if he/she doesn't use condom. There r so many people that don't use condoms. How come in Africa the virus is getting spread so widely and not in other countries? They did it before with Native Americans and the small pox and flu. and they still doing again with AIDS and cancer.
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Mainly they try to prevent diseases being spread through education, and vaccination.\n\nFor more information on a specific disease you can visit the Center For Disease Control's website - http://www.cdc.gov/
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Had at least two friends who survived. Just do as the doctor says and PUT YOURSELF ON AS MANY PRAYER LISTS THAT YOU CAN. HAVE FRIENDS CALL OTHER FRIENDS AND HAVE THEM PUT YOU ON THEIR PRAYER LISTS. God bless you.
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One of the most common diseases in Africa is malaria, so there would be any number of ways to research that.  Also, I heard today on Ghanaian news that there has recently been a cholera outbreak in Accra.  There are any number of focuses you could choose.  You could work with child immunization (for polio or something similar), tuberculosis treatments, diabetes treatments, etc.  The field is wide open.
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ONLY WHEN THEY BREATHE !!!  YES YES YES!!\n\nPlease see your doctor and your infection control nurse at work.  You will need to be treated and at least wear a mask while working.  I would advise you to take a leave of absence.  Hey, you don't want to spread this virus any farther to unsuspecting people, do you??? It could kill them...and you!   Please get treatment asap!
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The main protection is simple soap and water to protect you and the pateient.  It is the most effective way of preventing transmission of disease... but you must do it after every patient!  Good luck.
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um..i don't understand the question. but how can you stop someone from having a disease? you can't control what happens in the world
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The Reston strain of Ebola was discovered in a primate facility in Reston, VA near D.C.  It's the only known airborne strain. Humans that contracted the disease suffered severe flu-like symptoms but no one died.  There was a high incidence of mortality in monkeys that contracted it.\n\nThere have been no cases of the other, more severe (to humans) forms of Ebola in America.
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Maybe you should do some research on "Pandemics" first.  Do some research on the Spanish Flu, as well as more recent ones like AIDS and Ebola.\n\nEither it would be a "fast killer" like Ebola, where people died quickly and it never spread.  Or it would be a "slow killer", where it would be impossible to contain because people would pass it along before terminal symptoms were obvious.  Closing the border with Mexico would be pointless, because it would simply pass on to Europe or Asia, and come right back.  Look at the recent outbreak of SARS to see what I mean.\n\nAnd what would the Navy, Air Force, and Special Forces be doing?  Shooting down airliners with infected people?  Sinking any ships that left port in Mexico?  And Mexico is a long ways from South America.  US closing the US border from Mexico would be like France closing the border with Belguim because of a disease in Hungary.\n\nAnd as a member of the US Armed Forces, there is no way that a "shoot on sight" order would be given, let alone followed.  We are not mindless robots, and such an order would be illegal, and would never be followed.  Period.
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As of yesterday,Oprah did a special interview with a man from the CDC. \n\nHe readily admitted that we can only be prepared. There is only so much of Tamaflu to go around right now. He stated that it would first be given to healthcare workers so they would not be bringing it home to their families and also because we need heathcare workers in a crisis such as this could present.\n\nHe stated also that even if it isn't the bird flu...that something like the 1918 pandemic will happen sooner or later. It was interesting that he said that bodies were exhumed in Alaska from people who died from the flu of 1918. From the bodies remains they were able to (can't think of the word)  basically create the 1918 virus in a test tube. From this they were able to determine how it spread,and came to the conclusion that it passed from birds directly to people without any type of warning.\n\nPersonally I don't think we are prepared enough should a pandemic occur. But that is what having faith is for. You can't live each day of your life in fear. Life goes on. All we can do is be well informed and do our best to prevent the spread of the illness should something like this ever happen.
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You have to provide medicines.
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Most of the patients they see don't have communicable diseases. Healthcare workers take a lot of care to wash their hands and take other steps to avoid infection. And, in fact, they do get sick. You don't see them when they are, because they're not at work - just like you and me.