Aids: Origin of pandemic 'was 1920s Kinshasa'

[Strk]

We still have overprescription of anti-biotics. Did you notice the person with ebola who went to the hospital in Texas was sent home with anti-biotics - to treat a virus?

Wow, that is so incredibly useless. He should have been kept under droplet precautions in that hospital.

 

[zinfamous]

Why is it always Africa that seems to be the crucible of infectious disease innovation? I would think much of South America and South Asia have as hospitable a climate for bugs. I assume it is the way people live, but then I expect even that is duplicated in other warm parts of the world. It's a puzzlement. South Asia did give us bird flue, if I recall correctly, but that was sort of the Andy Kaufman of pandemics, and so not much to brag about.

reliance on bush meat as a staple makes a very happy breeding ground for these primate-born viruses.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The fact we now know it was misdiagnosed and he actually had ebola, and doctors interviewed saying the antibiotics made no sense for the viral diagnosis?

Of course antibiotics shouldn't be given if the only thing presented seemed to be viral. Now precisely how did the patient present? I don't have access to that HIPAA protected information and neither do you. It is entirely possible that wrong treatment was given, but I know, not believe, what I said is true and that you have insufficient information to make categorical statements.