Buffalo doctor just back from W. Africa returns to work Monday

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  • lmr0528
    lmr0528 Posts: 427 Member
    Are you from Buffalo? Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. No one is going to catch this just by being in the general vicinity of him. I think people are safe and making too big a deal out of this.
  • Tiamo719
    Tiamo719 Posts: 256 Member
    My big thing is him treating other patients. It hasn't even been 21 days since he's been home.
  • lmr0528
    lmr0528 Posts: 427 Member
    edited October 2014
    He didn't treat any Ebola patients while he was there and is smart enough to closely monitor himself. Even though he is not required to do anything since he wasn't in contact with anyone who had it.
  • asdowe13
    asdowe13 Posts: 1,951 Member
    FEARBOLA - is running rampant.

    Just break up.....wait no thats not right...........hmmmmmm
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    Hey, will I catch Ebola from reading this thread? I need to know for science.
  • Tiamo719
    Tiamo719 Posts: 256 Member
    Seriously guys, would you want your physician to treat you after returning from West Africa? I would not be comfortable with this.


  • Tiamo719
    Tiamo719 Posts: 256 Member
    adowe wrote: »
    Just break up.....wait no thats not right...........hmmmmmm

    That actually is funny :smile:

  • 1princesswarrior
    1princesswarrior Posts: 1,242 Member
    21 days is the isolation period for those who have been exposed. According to the article and this doctor, he was not exposed. There is no need to blow this out of proportion and he has been monitoring himself according to the latest guidelines.
  • Tiamo719
    Tiamo719 Posts: 256 Member
    1princesswarrior wrote: »
    21 days is the isolation period for those who have been exposed. According to the article and this doctor, he was not exposed. There is no need to blow this out of proportion and he has been monitoring himself according to the latest guidelines.

    Nov. 14 will be 21 days. And no one is blowing this out of proportion. Just getting opinions.
  • Asherah29
    Asherah29 Posts: 354 Member
    For the love of all things holy.... Stop, just stop with the whole Ebola thing.
  • Tiamo719
    Tiamo719 Posts: 256 Member
    Some of you really have a crappy attitude. Bad sleep? :p
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
    21 days is an arbitrary number selected by the doctor that wrote the book on ebola... literally about 40 years ago... there's no science behind that number of days... and unless he is your doctor... and he decides to spit on you... while he's exhibiting symptoms... I think your safe... and what of... mutation??? Ebola going airborn? like the doctor who wrote the book said... sure it could mutate... but an equivalent mutation would be like a horse growing wings and flying off into the sun...I would be far more concerned with MERS.. WHICH is an airborn pathogen.. and currently has a 30% mortality rate. There... MY fear mongering for the day :p
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    Tiamo719 wrote: »
    Seriously guys, would you want your physician to treat you after returning from West Africa? I would not be comfortable with this.

    Is this YOUR doc? Then why are you worried? So many awesome things in life, why waste time worrying over something not worth worrying over in this particular situation.

    Fear monger someplace else...;o)

  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    Tiamo719 wrote: »
    Some of you really have paid attention to reliable sources, read up on matters concerning this disease and therefore don't over-react. Good for you! :p

    FIFY
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    RavenLibra wrote: »
    21 days is an arbitrary number selected by the doctor that wrote the book on ebola... literally about 40 years ago... there's no science behind that number of days... and unless he is your doctor... and he decides to spit on you... while he's exhibiting symptoms... I think your safe... and what of... mutation??? Ebola going airborn? like the doctor who wrote the book said... sure it could mutate... but an equivalent mutation would be like a horse growing wings and flying off into the sun...I would be far more concerned with MERS.. WHICH is an airborn pathogen.. and currently has a 30% mortality rate. There... MY fear mongering for the day :p
    :)
  • Tiamo719
    Tiamo719 Posts: 256 Member
    Hearts_2015 wrote: »
    Tiamo719 wrote: »
    Seriously guys, would you want your physician to treat you after returning from West Africa? I would not be comfortable with this.

    Is this YOUR doc? Then why are you worried? So many awesome things in life, why waste time worrying over something not worth worrying over in this particular situation.

    Fear monger someplace else...;o)

    Not my doctor, thank God and not really worried anymore, just a question "how would you feel"
  • captmiddy
    captmiddy Posts: 147 Member
    The reality is I don't care where my physician has been as long as he is doing everything necessary to keep me safe. The problem with picking a location and going hyper vigilant about it is that you may be missing other important factors that could expose you to other potentially deadly things. What really needs to be reiterated here is that doctors have to be hyper sensitive to how they management their care around any patient and to ensure that they aren't becoming part of the chain of exposure to others.

    And Ebola is currently understood to only be transmittable after a person has become symptomatic, unlike other things where when you are symptomatic you are really past the contagious point. So as long as he is vigilant in checking against the protocol I would be okay.
  • atinystorminyourteacup
    atinystorminyourteacup Posts: 137 Member
    If he isn't exhibiting symptoms and hasn't been around anyone who had Ebola, I really don't see the problem. I don't see why he should just halt his life when there isn't a risk. The reason why so many people are fearing Ebola is due to the fact that we had a few transmissions on U.S. soil. We can't even say we have an outbreak. If you compare what's happening in the U.S. to what's happening in West Africa, this is nothing.
  • Canwehugnow
    Canwehugnow Posts: 218 Member
    Not worried at all. Ebola will not spread like wildfire and kill everyone... the impending zombie apocalypse will do that silly.
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  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    Tiamo719 wrote: »
    Seriously guys, would you want your physician to treat you after returning from West Africa? I would not be comfortable with this.

    Since he had not been treating ebola patients why would anyone be worried, as a great statesman once said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".




  • klkateri
    klkateri Posts: 432 Member
    Well, I AM from Buffalo and although he wasn't in any direct contact I think that personally, I'd prefer if he took a couple days at home before seeing patients. If for any other reason than to just relax and spend some time with his family.

    I'm not concerned though, that now this area will be a hotbed of Ebola but I'm sure now people around here are gonna be insane crazy about this and the local news is going to blow this out of completely out of proportion as well.

    I do think however that it's an amazing testament to the human experience that people are willing to put themselves at risk to help those with Ebola in Africa. People that they don't even know and are a world away... that blows me out of the water more than a local doctor coming back from Sierra Leone and treating patients a day later.
  • asdowe13
    asdowe13 Posts: 1,951 Member
    Tiamo719 wrote: »
    Seriously guys, would you want your physician to treat you after returning from West Africa? I would not be comfortable with this.



    Wouldn't bother me.
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
    I took a major vacation to South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe this past summer. Just last week a friend seriously asked me if I was concerned about contracting Ebola. Seriously?! I've been back for over 2 months now - I'm pretty sure the incubation period is over. AND - I was 6000 miles away! Yes, that's 6000 miles, 9600 kilometers!

    He wasn't even treating Ebola patients, so no - I wouldn't be concerned. I'd be more concerned that he was treating patients after such along trip and the time changes. I know it took me several days to feel like I was back my own time zone.
  • Asherah29
    Asherah29 Posts: 354 Member
    Ebola is not transmittable unless the patient is exhibiting symptoms.
    So really even if he is currently infected, unless he is feverish and exorcist puking on his patients, he could play tongue hockey with each and every one of them - recently returned from Africa or not - and they wouldn't contract it.

    I mean why didn't the Texas guy give it to anyone he was living with those days that the hospital sent him home? Why was it only transferred to his nurses who had sustained, direct contact with his bodily fluids? Because while the disease is extremely INFECTIOUS its really not very CONTAGIOUS at all.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Buffalo Doctor? Do Veterinarians really specialize?
  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
    Canwehugnow wrote: »
    Not worried at all. Ebola will not spread like wildfire and kill everyone... the impending zombie apocalypse will do that silly.
    We can only hope.

  • SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish
    SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish Posts: 831 Member
    Don't eat from his utensils, share a sandwich with, french kiss, have sex with, handle his excrement, puke or draw blood from him, and you should be fine even if he's "hiding symptoms". Usually you don't do these things with your doctor...
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Do you freak out if someone in your state has AIDS? Ebola is about as transmittable as that disease. Unless you are handling bodily fluids of a currently infected person, you won't get EBOLA.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    Why on earth would I be worried if my physician did this? Seriously.

    You're more likely to get killed in your car while driving to the physicians office than you are likely to get Ebola from someone who was in West Africa.

    If you want to put some numbers to it: Since the beginning of this outbreak, this virus has killed 4000 people and infected 8000 more.... in a region of 22 million people. That's a whopping 0.0005% of the population of that region, or 1 in 2000 people. The only reason why it's dangerous is because it does have a high mortality rate and there is no cure... yet... something that will exist is just a few months.

    In the USA, there have been, what... 3 - 5 cases including one death? What do you think the odds of it getting to you? It took 10 months to infect 12,000 people in a region with an average population desnity of 46 people per square km. The USA has an average population density of 35 people per square km, and we have significantly higher quality healthcare and sanitary conditions throughout the country.

    If you feel the odds of you getting this virus are high, you should start buying lottery tickets and stay away from dark clouds...

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