US - NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation - No Ebola

[sharon sanders]

For Immediate Release: Saturday, September 27, 2014

NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation


NIH expects to admit a patient who has been exposed to the Ebola virus to its Clinical Center in the coming days. The patient is an American physician who was volunteering services in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

The patient is being admitted to the NIH Clinical Center for observation and to enroll in a clinical study.

Out of an abundance of caution, the patient will be admitted to the NIH Clinical Center?s special clinical studies unit that is specifically designed to provide high-level isolation capabilities and is staffed by infectious diseases and critical care specialists. The unit staff is trained in strict infection control practices optimized to prevent spread of potentially transmissible agents such as Ebola.

No additional details about the patient are available at this time.

It is important to remember that Ebola patients can be safely cared for at any hospital that follows CDC's infection control recommendations and can isolate a patient in a private room.

NIH is taking every precaution to ensure the safety of our patients, NIH staff, and the public. This situation is of minimal risk to NIH staff and the public.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2014/od-27.htm

 

[Pathfinder]

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Re: US - NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation

For Immediate Release: Sunday, September 28, 2014

Patient with exposure to Ebola has arrived safely at NIH Clinical Center

A patient with exposure to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been transferred from an overseas location and admitted to the NIH Clinical Center for observation and to enroll in a clinical protocol. The patient arrived at the NIH Clinical Center on Sunday, September 28, at approximately 4 p.m. ET.

The patient is an American physician who was volunteering services in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Out of an abundance of caution, the patient has been admitted to the NIH Clinical Center?s special clinical studies unit that is specifically designed to provide high-level isolation capabilities and is staffed by infectious diseases and critical care specialists. The unit staff is trained in strict infection control practices optimized to prevent spread of potentially transmissible agents such as Ebola.

No additional details about the patient are available at this time.
NIH is taking every precaution to ensure the safety of our patients, NIH staff, and the public. This situation presents minimal risk to any of them.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2014/od-28.htm

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: US - NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation

Re: US - NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation

EXPOSED

After an accidental needle stab, a doctor's Ebola watch begins

Written byFrances Stead Sellers
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Published on November 3, 2014

A few days after he accidentally stuck himself with a needle in an Ebola ward in Sierra Leone, Lewis Rubinson?s temperature topped 103 degrees.
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But Rubinson, who is director of the critical care resuscitation unit at the University of Maryland?s Shock Trauma Center, had just spent three weeks working for the World Health Organization at the Kenema Government Hospital, and he knew that a fever was usually the first signal that a person harboring the deadly virus has become infectious.
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In Kenema, 90 minutes to two hours was about all the time the clinicians could tolerate in the Ebola ward in the full heat of their protective gear. Rubinson was working quickly, squeezing clear plastic IV bottles to force fluids faster into ailing bodies, when he spotted the needle. It was in a bottle hanging above a young woman?s bed. He pulled it out, disconcerted that somebody still hadn?t learned how dangerous it was to leave a needle like that. He then walked maybe 50 paces across the ward to throw it out. The sharps container was full. As he repositioned the needle in his hand, the tip jabbed into his flesh, and he felt blood oozing under the two layers of white surgical gloves.
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Finally, a decision became clear: He should evacuate.
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It was Friday, Sept. 26.
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On Sunday, Sept. 28, Rubinson was admitted to NIH at 4 p.m.
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Much more...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/11/03/exposed/

 

[kiwibird]

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Re: US - NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation

An observation on the above article - I was under the impression that the sewerage system could deal with patient waste and yet it states that they added virucides before flushing.

handwritten sign, “Do not flush the toilet,” was taped to its lid reminding him that his waste was being decontaminated with virucides

Is this a new protocol?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/11/03/exposed/

 

[alert]

Re: US - NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation

Re: US - NIH to admit patient exposed to Ebola virus for observation

The article later makes it clear that the man did NOT contract Ebola, but rather had a serious reaction to an experimental drug:

Five days after his recovery from the impact of the experimental drug, with tests showing that Rubinson didn?t have Ebola and never had had Ebola, a friend picked him up from the isolation unit at NIH. They drove 45 miles through sharp fall light from Bethesda to Rubinson?s Tudor-style Baltimore house, where he began 10 days of mandatory quarantine.

 

[Pathfinder]

Doctor?s Mishap Sheds Light on Ebola Vaccine?s Effects

By DENISE GRADYMARCH 5, 2015

The moment he felt a needle jab into his thumb last September on an Ebola ward in Sierra Leone, Dr. Lewis Rubinson knew he was at risk of contracting the deadly disease. What could he do but wait to see if he got sick, and hope that treatment would pull him through?

Dr. Rubinson, an intensive-care specialist and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, chose another option, described in an article and editorial published on Thursday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. He was quickly given a shot of an experimental vaccine, a type that had been used in only one other person. The hope was that if he had been exposed to Ebola, the vaccine would stimulate his immune system to fight off the virus.

As it turns out, it is not clear whether the vaccine could have protected him against Ebola, because blood tests indicate he was almost certainly never infected. It is clear, though, that the vaccine stirred up his immune system: He had fever, chills, nausea, muscle pains and a headache. But the symptoms ebbed after a few days, and when it was all over blood tests suggested that he was probably immune to Ebola.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/h...ds-light-on-ebola-vaccines-efficacy.html?_r=0

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See also:

Emergency Postexposure Vaccination With Vesicular Stomatitis Virus?Vectored Ebola Vaccine After Needlestick

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum...irus–vectored-ebola-vaccine-after-needlestick