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Dallas: Workers Spray Ebola Patients’ Vomit Off of Sidewalk with Pressure Washer and No Protective Clothing (Photos and Video)
Ebola carrier Thomas Eric Duncan – the guy who brought Ebola to Dallas – vomited outside his apartment building.
A WFAA tv news chopper took the following photograph showing how workers are cleaning up the vomit:
Notice that the woman wearing sandals is about to step onto the run-off:
And here’s another screenshot showing a guy walking through the power-wash runoff:
Couldn’t they be tracking it on the bottom of their shoes as they
move around? What about the power-wash guys? Where did they go next?
That’s a pretty good way to spread Ebola … especially if experts are right that Ebola spreads through aerosols.
Similarly, the Ebola patient’s sweat-stained sheets were left on his bed for days without being removed … even though his family was quarantined in the same room.
As we noted yesterday, arrogance and carelessness may lead to unnecessary deaths.
Update: WFAA TV Dallas/Fort Worth Channel 8 news says that the Centers for Disease Control ordered the sidewalk to be power-washed:
Apparently, they didn't tell anyone to use protective suits, or to keep residents or passersby away while power-washing.
And from the casualness of the guys doing the power-washing, it is unlikely
that (1) they put any disinfectants in the power-washer or (2) they were even told what they were cleaning.
Heck of a job ...
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UN-Fucking Believable...
This Guy Is Totally Unprotected, And The Live Virus Is All Around Him, Being Scattered By The
Pressure Washer In All Directions.
I Couldn't Think Of A Worse Way To Clean This SHIT Up.............
Shock and awe coming when some of these paper millionaires flitting around living the high life become symptomatic.
I was looking at the photos of the "clean-up" and thought of how the US was at one time and what it is fast becoming:
Third World genes make Third World nations.
If you mean kleptocrats willing to sell out anyone to make a buck then sure. Obviously you haven't travelled to the ahithole that is Oklahoma where white people inbreed like fruit flies and live in trailer park ratholes with packs of dogs running loose hunting squirrels and turtles for breakfast. It's a place called tishomingo. Plenty of third world genes there and they've probably never been to a foreign country much less looked at a map.
"Couldn’t they be tracking it on the bottom of their shoes as they move around?"
I guess we will know in 2 to 18 days...
Kind of makes me want to avoid planes and crowded places.
Isn't The USG Goal Here To Infect, Infect, Infect ???
Have to wonder as on the surface it appears that way.
2.5 trillion dollars a year for government, and we get this show. I think we overpaid for the ticket.
Is this what they meant about being prepared to contain an outbreak of Ebola?, they got the freaking janitor to water it down. Well I guess it's better than nothing :(
I've been a close watcher of this "TPS" for quite some time, noticing Haitians and others who get it NEVER GO BACK to their country of origin, there is NOTHING "temporary" about it just another immigration scam.
http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/100129_tps_for_haitians.htm
January 29, 2010
TPS For Haitians Will Cost Obama Florida In 2012 —And The Election
EBOLA AMNESTY: Feds won't deport Liberian immigrants
http://news.yahoo.com/govt-lets-liberians-stay-us-amid-ebola-crisis-2034...
Gov't lets Liberians stay in US amid Ebola crisis
Associated Press
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Friday Sept 26 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberian immigrants living in the United States without a visa won't be sent back to the epicenter of Ebola crisis in West Africa for at least another two years, the Obama administration said Friday.
President Barack Obama signed a memo extending a legal protection called "deferred enforced departure" that continues a protection from deportation that has been in place for more than a decade.
The government first granted Liberians temporary protective status during that country's bloody civil war, which started in 1991 and ended in 2003.
Someone on an earlier Ebola article mentioned people suing the air carriers via a class action lawsuit for endangering public health. That's not a bad idea. However, I'm really surprised that bomb threats haven't already been called in on the flights from Atlanta to Monrovia. Anbody want to start a pool for when the first bomb threat gets called in?
"We don't have the money in the budget for this cleanup, send a couple darkies with a powerwasher". Unfucking real.
Dogs like to eat puke, as some other animals.
I imagine (hope) that the power washer solution contained bleach, or something...
But that being said, it is amazing how badly the imagery has been handled here, isn't it? You had the idiot from the hospital a month ago saying that their patient's waste would be disposed of "as usual"...implying it would go, untreated, into general sewage. (Which is not true, but whatever...)
Doesn't anyone in authority know how to handle basic issues? In a pandemic situation, the imagery of how it is being 'handled' can make or break your public responses. You have to be very careful how your efforts appear...careless words or actions, caught on camera, can do far more to spread panic than the damned disease itself!
It didn't. That's a cheapy pressure washing machine, more powerful than a hose. If it had the capability to use chems there would be a 5 gal. bucket next to the machine. The solution is sucked up into the pressure hose and out the wand.
Unless they pre-sprayed, Ebola is everywhere.
The time to panic is before the Titanic has left the harbour .See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/08/ebola-friendly-reaper_6.html
If the Triffids don't get you, Ebola will : seehttp://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/08/deader-guide-to-ebola.html
Plants have been breeding humans . See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2011/05/ebola-and-chocolate.html
Further examples of the Plant-Herbivore Wars :
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2011/04/garlic-and-plant-herbivore-wars.html
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2013/07/rabies-alzheimers-and-formic-acid.... Notice the cute trick to penetrate skin barriers . Reminiscent of hemorrhagic diseases like Ebola and Especially SuperEbola .
SuperEbola is Ebola on steroids , then add some . The Fifth Horseman on a Harley ! : see
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2013/01/training-immune-system.html
for the desperate . : See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2006/03/training-immune.html
Good luck !
What would happen if, say, ebola somehow gets on a golf ball and, for example, a golfer-in-chief happens to hit the golf ball with his golf club?
Would the spinning golf ball be considered to produce an aerosal effect? Could such a scenario adversely affect a golfer-in-chief, his high level golfing partners and a bunch of secret service types?
Sorry, I meant EBOLI.
Anyone know how long the virus can remain active outside the host and in material like sheets, clothes etc and in atmosphere?
Most viruses are pretty fragile outside the host environment. Their DNA disintegrates in UV light, like from sunlight. That's why you see those UV light boxes in hospitals.
"most". Still not an answere. Where are the fucking answers?? I read somewhere ebola can survive several hours outside of the host. I have no idea if it's true or not.
EBOLAVIRUS
For more information about Ebola, visit Ebola Virus Disease
PATHOGEN SAFETY DATA SHEET – INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES
DRUG RESISTANCE: There are no known antiviral treatments available for human infections. SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISINFECTANTS: Ebolavirus is susceptible to 3% acetic acid, 1% glutaraldehyde, alcohol-based products, and dilutions (1:10-1:100 for =10 minutes) of 5.25% household bleach (sodium hypochlorite), and calcium hypochlorite (bleach powder) Footnote 48 Footnote 49 Footnote 50 Footnote 62 Footnote 63. The WHO recommendations for cleaning up spills of blood or body fluids suggest flooding the area with a 1:10 dilutions of 5.25% household bleach for 10 minutes for surfaces that can tolerate stronger bleach solutions (e.g., cement, metal) Footnote 62. For surfaces that may corrode or discolour, they recommend careful cleaning to remove visible stains followed by contact with a 1:100 dilution of 5.25% household bleach for more than 10 minutes. PHYSICAL INACTIVATION: Ebola are moderately thermolabile and can be inactivated by heating for 30 minutes to 60 minutes at 60°C, boiling for 5 minutes, or gamma irradiation (1.2 x106 rads to 1.27 x106 rads) combined with 1% glutaraldehyde Footnote 10 Footnote 48 Footnote 50. Ebolavirus has also been determined to be moderately sensitive to UVC radiation Footnote 51. SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST: Filoviruses have been reported capable to survive for weeks in blood and can also survive on contaminated surfaces, particularly at low temperatures (4°C) Footnote 52 Footnote 61. One study could not recover any Ebolavirus from experimentally contaminated surfaces (plastic, metal or glass) at room temperature Footnote 61. In another study, Ebolavirus dried onto glass, polymeric silicone rubber, or painted aluminum alloy is able to survive in the dark for several hours under ambient conditions (between 20 and 250C and 30–40% relative humidity) (amount of virus reduced to 37% after 15.4 hours), but is less stable than some other viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa) Footnote 53. When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days Footnote 61. This information is based on experimental findings only and not based on observations in nature. This information is intended to be used to support local risk assessments in a laboratory setting.
Thanks for the info. Acetic acid, eh? Time to stock up on vinegar (which is 4 - 8 pct acid).
I'll start building the gamma irradiation shield for my house right away.....
Thank you very much for the info QEI.
Am sure this will help others.
Only thing still to understand is how long the aerosol effect or blowin in the wind can still make the virus active/reactive
This is unbelievable - the CDC needs to be renamed Clearly Deluded Clowns. Now they may be good at counting once they take their shoes off and have access to their toes, but managing this crisis seems to be waaay out of their ballpark. My wife was working in a lab with a highly hazardous organism when a small bit of liquid containing it hit the floor - everybody was out in nanoseconds and then came the BLEACH tsunami. Here, they're using a pressure washer on Ebola-rich vomit. Jesus-fucking Christ!!!.............
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Come one .. Even the most basic of investigations can show this is not true:
1) The guys with the sprayer's run-off is flowing to the top of the screen. conclude: slope to top of screen.
2) Water near woman starts as a small pool and runs to top of screen since that is the slope.
3) Due to location of small pool in parking stall: conclusion from car with A/C
4) Location in Dallas where it is hot: A/C conclusion correct.
done.
http://ohsonline.com/articles/2012/06/01/accident-cleanup.aspx
"...when accidents such as this occur, there is another problem factory owners and managers must contend with: properly and safely cleaning up the accident scene. Many people are under the false belief that after a factory or home accident in which someone is injured, police or fire department personnel follow up and clean the accident/crime scene. This is not the case. In virtually all situations in the United States, once the victim has been removed and officials have concluded their investigation, cleanup duties are turned over to facility owners/managers, who in turn typically call on the custodial crew. But without proper experience or training, passing the job on to the custodial crew can be another serious problem just waiting to happen."
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As a former fire chief, I am absolutely appalled at how this god damn fiasco has and is being handled.
Being in this line of work. You know damn well a hazmat team would charge $5k-10K to clean this area. While Ebola might have been expected, it wasn't confirmed.
What we want every landlord residential/commercial to call hazmat for shit, spit, urine or vomit at a building?
Being a fire chief you are or should be well aware of the clean water act !!. You put a lot of shit down storm drains playing smokey the bear but require fuck heads like me to reclaim at huge expense.
Eat Ebola Bitchez
As a matter of fact I never have had runoff in a storm drain. Haz Mat was a primary focus of my crews both chemical and bio.. When an issue is posssible present, we most certainly would make god damn sure we have dikes in place, chemical booms etc. etc.,. I downvoted you for being the idiot you are. How's that global warming thing going for you? Maybe you are just a child molester and yes, I had to keep my eye on one because the police couldn't for legal reasons. I would keep an eye out for the bastard every day at school bus stops and made sure he knew I was there. Fucker died of a stroke a couple of years after I retired. Too bad he lived so far up in the woods.
Another thing, you didn't answer whether landlords are supposed to pay up the ass for a homeless guy shitting near or on a sidewalk. Think that happens often in America ? What about vomit? Landlord supposed to have the cleaning crew dress up in Halloween uniforms to shovel up shit/vomit, and then dispose of it properly in bio hazard sites ?
Get real, we ain't on the taxpayer dole.
Clean water act !! is any fucking water, clean fucking water, the gutters are dirty remember. You fail, you are the problem, the establishment does w/e they fucking want but tax and labor our asses for shit that will run down the storm drains anyway when it rains.
Enjoy your over paid retirement.
Americans ignored Ebola while thousands of people died in Africa, now that one person gets sick in America it has become an "Oh My God" moment. This virus has worked overtime to pick up "critical mass." I'm referring to the point where enough people are infected with the virus that it can sustain a chain reaction and expand out of control.
The bad news is Ebola may have already reached critical mass and may now be impossible to contain. The economic and humanitarian implications of this are massive and it could change everything. More on why we should be very concerned in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/09/ebola-may-have-reached-critical-m...
Brilliant...just fucking brilliant... Way to go team! sarc/off
You
phukking
clueless
peons
The CDC's Ebola culture was shaped by a brilliant doctor who was stranded in a hut full of Ebola patients without himself getting sick. His luck has become their assumption. USAMRIID harbors no such illusions and should be running the show.
Thanks for a great piece. As an African I incredulously marvel at the stereotypes of Africa in the comments. Suffice to say, that Africans bear a great deal of blame for their current mess. But there is also the external factor... in South Africa, we have a crumbling health system The president, Mbeki who succeeded Mandela, tried to get low cost medicines for all the people in need. He was blocked by the US. What do we remember him for? Denying HIV, which he did, but that did not stop him fighting for access to medicines. Just read Third World Network reports on Avian Flu, Swine Flu and what the World Health Organisation did to Asia, especially the actions of St Judes Children's Hospital, and Australia... Rumsfeld was think in on this with almost useless Tamiflu... and the Council of Europe condemned WHO...
I do wish some of you would get the point that Health Imperialism = Health tryranny domestically...
Thanks for a great piece. As an African I incredulously marvel at the stereotypes of Africa in the comments. Suffice to say, that Africans bear a great deal of blame for their current mess. But there is also the external factor... in South Africa, we have a crumbling health system The president, Mbeki who succeeded Mandela, tried to get low cost medicines for all the people in need. He was blocked by the US. What do we remember him for? Denying HIV, which he did, but that did not stop him fighting for access to medicines. Just read Third World Network reports on Avian Flu, Swine Flu and what the World Health Organisation did to Asia, especially the actions of St Judes Children's Hospital, and Australia... Rumsfeld was think in on this with almost useless Tamiflu... and the Council of Europe condemned WHO...
I do wish some of you would get the point that Health Imperialism = Health tryranny domestically...
Personal responsibility is a bitch...
How about a culture (no pun intended) that doesn't understand the germ theory of disease 150 years after it was established?
Fruitbat, anyone?
That apartment complex was named "Little Sierra Leone" with good reason. The ultimate photo-capsulization of "globalization"! Ah yes, the "level playing field" fully realized.
I now pronounce you "Culturally Enriched".
Assuming Ebola doesn't wipe the USSA from the face of the planet, let's hope greater numbers among us have reconsidered the "merits" of Diversity.
23 days, the known outside limit Ebola can live outside a host body.
Still plenty of time to infect others.
Do the guys cleaning the bathrooms of the planes coming from Liberia get hazmat suits and respirators?
No, that's *still* wrong, Smitty. You read the paper wrong.
Ebola is usually only viable for a few hours or so outside the body, and only if the conditions are right. Maybe a day or so *if* its in a suitable amount of liquid (body fluid) at the right temperature.
Using the restroom on the plane after this liar means you unwittingly entered a game of Russian roulette. We should let this asshole die.
The Weather Channel just showed the very same Apt. that the Dallas ebola victim visited had been hit by the shear winds that blew thru the area. Roof ripped off in spots...etc. Check it out.
Let that be a WARNING to you folks in those ebola countries that want to 'come to America'. VOODOObitchez....voodoo. vOOdOO from 'the big guy'.
So it would appear the Ebo-puke was on the pavement for a few days....
Would it be an issue if any birds or animals took a snack of it thinking it was breakfast?
Dogs love to eat vomit. Then go home and show the whole family how much he loves them by licking them to death...............literally in this case.
A study shows that 30-50% of dogs in the area of an ebola outbreak carried the disease, but it does not affect them.
Yes, there's potential for Ebola to find a permanent domestic host in a carrier animal or insect species anytime a contagion is released into a new environment, even a flea.
What next leaf blower in the aprarment to blow out the ebola or just leave the family with those sheets?