UV-C and Isolation
I had privately gotten the results only moments later. The test came back positive. Fear had risen in my throat and panic bubbled in my mind. This was not a good thing to happen at all and I dreaded telling anyone else. Patient 0 had indeed contained Ebola.
I made calls and proceeded to tell others of our facility. We had to investigate Patient 0 even more to try and find where they had gotten it. If it was of somewhere else we must warn them. If they got it here, in Texas, where was it? How many people had come into contact with Patient 0? How many were at risk? I sent employers to investigate Patient 0’s home, but with caution. They were required to have protection. I warned others near me, “Keep patient 0 isolated and don’t go near them without the proper protection!” …show more content…
After learning this information, I decided that I would contact the child and notify them about Patient 0. I tried to explain that we would work to cure Patient 0. It’s distressing to know that, “Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks” (Ebola Virus Disease). I, of course, didn’t worry them with this part of the information. After telling them that we’d work, I asked them if there was anything out of the ordinary, in attempt to find any evidence or clues that would help understand how Patient 0 contracted the virus. We learned that Patient 0 had spoken about being peed on by a monkey on a safari trip in West Africa. This was told as a funny story, of course, but if the patient had any cuts or open surfaces on the skin, the virus would’ve gone in. I later sent someone to look into it and it turned out that Patient 0 did have a cut that they were not aware of. We found where the virus had come
I had privately gotten the results only moments later. The test came back positive. Fear had risen in my throat and panic bubbled in my mind. This was not a good thing to happen at all and I dreaded telling anyone else. Patient 0 had indeed contained Ebola.
I made calls and proceeded to tell others of our facility. We had to investigate Patient 0 even more to try and find where they had gotten it. If it was of somewhere else we must warn them. If they got it here, in Texas, where was it? How many people had come into contact with Patient 0? How many were at risk? I sent employers to investigate Patient 0’s home, but with caution. They were required to have protection. I warned others near me, “Keep patient 0 isolated and don’t go near them without the proper protection!” …show more content…
After learning this information, I decided that I would contact the child and notify them about Patient 0. I tried to explain that we would work to cure Patient 0. It’s distressing to know that, “Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks” (Ebola Virus Disease). I, of course, didn’t worry them with this part of the information. After telling them that we’d work, I asked them if there was anything out of the ordinary, in attempt to find any evidence or clues that would help understand how Patient 0 contracted the virus. We learned that Patient 0 had spoken about being peed on by a monkey on a safari trip in West Africa. This was told as a funny story, of course, but if the patient had any cuts or open surfaces on the skin, the virus would’ve gone in. I later sent someone to look into it and it turned out that Patient 0 did have a cut that they were not aware of. We found where the virus had come