I find this mildly disconcerting
The Washington Post reports that Doctor Martin Salia has died from the Ebola virus, just a few weeks after he tested negative for the disease;
When Martin Salia’s Ebola test came back negative, his friends and colleagues threw their arms around him. They shook his hand. They patted him on the back. They removed their protective gear and cried.
But when his symptoms remained nearly a week later, Salia took another test, on Nov. 10. This one came back positive, sending the Sierra Leonean doctor with ties to Maryland on a desperate, belated quest for treatment and forcing the colleagues who had embraced him into quarantine.
“We were celebrating. If the test says you are Ebola-free, we assume you are Ebola-free,” said Komba Songu M’Briwa, who cared for Salia at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center in Freetown. “Then everything fell apart.”
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So they flew him to Nebraska where he died yesterday;
“Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite out best efforts, we weren’t able to save him,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit.
Salia arrived Saturday to be treated at the Omaha hospital, where two other Ebola patients have been successfully treated.
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We’ve been scolded by the healthcare industry because we’re panicking about the spread of this disease, but, you know, when it’s the healthcare industry that is flying around the world taking the disease with them, like luggage, I think we have the right to panic. It’s almost as if the US government wants to create a crisis here. It also seems that the healthcare professionals don’t know what they’re doing in regards to the virus.
