A Dallas nurse who cared for Ebola victim Thomas Duncan, who died of the affliction, has been diagnosed as having the disease. And yet she was wearing full protective gear. Doctors are insisting that she must have violated the protocols somehow, though they can’t say how. But could it be that Ebola is easier to catch than we are being told? And if caregivers are at the greatest risk of catching this plague, won’t that make them hesitant to offer treatment?
This is a true test of vocation. We should pray for and honor the medical professionals who are putting their lives on the line in what the World Health Organization is calling “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.”
From Bryan Preston, The PJ Tatler » Texas’ Second Ebola Case Makes Mockery of Those Who Downplay Its Threat:
A nurse who provided care to Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Presbyterian Health Hospital has tested positive for the virus. The nurse, now identified as Nina Pham, 26, is reported to also be showing symptoms of the disease.
A Dallas neighborhood was greeted with the scary news over the weekend, with flyers and broadcast messages and a house-to-house search for anyone who may have come into contact with America’s second Ebola case, and the first reported transmission of the virus on U.S. soil.
By the nurse’s and the hospital’s accounts, all protocols were observed while Duncan was receiving care after he was admitted on September 28 and tested positive, on September 30. The Centers for Disease Control, though, claims that there was some breach of protocol, only, it doesn’t know what that breach may have been or when it may have happened. The CDC appears to be falling back on bureaucrat-speak to explain something that, so far, it cannot.
What if the protocols aren’t good enough?
See also this.
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