When brantly found out his blood type was a match, he went to a Community Blood center in missouri. His donation was flown to omaha. Dr. Doctors hope the antibodies will boost ashoka mukpos. Teresa ramiro says she remembers touching her face with a protective glove after leaving a room. She helped treat a spanish missionary who died of ebola at the end of september. The leeing experts of Infectious Diseases are meeting right now at the Pennsylvania Convention center. Christine madella has been speaking to these experts. Christine, how are they addressing this outbreak . I just heard from a doctor from the centers for Disease Control and she told me this is the largest Ebola Outbreak in history and the first ebola epidemic the world has ever seen. Now, doctors from around the world are here at the Pennsylvania Convention center. Theyre attending this Infectious Diseases conference. Ebola is a major topic of discussion. This afternoon, i sat down with the medical director of the Communic
Sadness and grief but we leave him in the hands of god. She called for a thorough examination regarding all aspects of duncans care. She it among 48 people who had contact with duncan and are now being watched for ebola. So far, no one has shown symptoms. The same protective measures will be taken while disposing of mr. Duncans body. In ohm ham, ashoka mukpo continues fighting ebola after getting blood transfusion from dr. Kent brantly who successfully battled the disease last month. He was willing to give blood for mr. Duncan but never heard back from the hospital. The body must be wrapped in plastic before being cremated or burr riy buried, depending on the familys wishes. The closest airport to us that is doing this is in newark, new jersey. Nice wade efforts are ramping up to stop the ebola virus from spreading. This week, philadelphias ground zero for discussions on infectious diseases. Some of the top experts in the field are holding a series of meetings and workshops in center c
Traveling will be given medical questionnai questionnaires. We are using the Global Transportation system at the same time we are protecting the people here in the United States. Meanwhile another patient is hospitalized in nebraska receiving a blood transfusion from patient dr. Kent brantly. And people that are believed to have contact with Thomas Duncan are being monitored but so far are not showing symptoms. Thank you. Here in philadelphia medical experts from around the world are meeting for a conference about infectious diseases, and ebola is on the mind. Sara bloomquist is live. Reporter this was a scheduled convention today, today no surprise the talk on ebola was well attended. It was standing room only for the discussion on the disease. They talked about ways they are working to contain the outbreak in west africa and better train experts in the United States to identify and isolate any possible cases, one speaker is dr. Fowler, he is a canadian doctor who has spent time treat
Ebola vaccine from br the outbreak happened and now they are moving forward in the process. We are pushing thing as long as quickly as possible. Joseph kim is president of anovia pharmaceuticals, they have developed a vaccine to protect against the deadly ebola virus, it was tested on animals showing it was safe. It can protect 100 from death and sickness, unlike other vaccines this does not use the virus. What folks have to do is get ahold of the ebola virus and use different parts to make it. They use a computer and take a genetic code of the virus and make a synthetic vaccine, kim says to manufacture it they use a fermentation process like beer. It could take about a month. To test the vaccine on humans they will not give them ebola, if it gets good results, kim says its possible the government will speed up the approval process. All bets are off in an outbreak situation, other companies are testing similar vaccines but kim says that they can cover more strains of the ebola virus, a
It is to the west and shifting toward the east and moving up from the south. Youve got it coming up from the south and sliding east at the same time. It will be with us during the morning commute. As you take a look we have more and more rain down to washington d. C. It will take from 9 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. For the bulk of that to get through. Give yourself extra time seeing were looking at steady to heavy rain this morning and ponding is an issue on the roads. 52 in philadelphia. 48 in allentown. 56 in millville. A little bluster wind wise as the winds continue to come in off the ocean as they did yesterday, it cooled us down yesterday. 56 by 6 00. 8 00 a. M. , 60 degrees, cloudy and rainy the whole time, breezy conditions. As we get into later in the day were looking at some improvement. We get into a lull most of the day, a sprinkle or shower around at noon 68 degrees but mainly dry. 76 is the high late today around 5 00 and anytime after 5 00 or 6 00 p. M. Be on the look out for