Ebola at Bay - Joseph J. Frankovich, R.N., M.D., Ph.D
Ebola Contained -
Ebola-in-Check -
Ebola Managed -
Ebola ‘Semmelweised’
Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian doctor in 1859, made his students and doctors wash their hands in lime (stone) water, (as did Roman Legion surgeons), before and after being in contact with patients, centuries before him.
Forwarding Semmelweises’ concept 150 years ahead, I was taught to scrub my hands and double-glove, wash my hands in bleach-solution after examining and/or treating the first HIV patients. In 1980, we knew too little about the first HIV outbreaks; an unknown virus no different than the Ebola virus spread that we face today in the year 2014.
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To whom it may concern,
The proceeding pages describe ‘protection of staff from contracting a disease of no correct known treatment;’ a disease of a mortality exceeding 50%, and finally, a disease that the mode of transmission is not well known, and/or is established.
I, Joseph Frankovich, RN, M.D., Ph. D., have yet to hear/read from designated authorities as to what the most effective protocol is for the protection of healthcare workers (including myself) possibly regarding care to my next patient effected with this dreadful disease; or protect myself from possibly being infected by the Ebola virus, i.e. coming in contact with an Ebola patient.
In the foregoing pages, I have described the protocol for health-care workers as to how healthcare workers can keep safe from contracting this deadly disease, having used it myself, as was instructed by my Epidemiology professor at the Andria Stampar Public Health Care Center and Hospital for Infectious Diseases, at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) Medical School in 1980.
It is a proven protocol against any infectious disease, regardless how much we may know about it in its early stages; it has been implemented by my professor not only in the very early stages of HIV history, but numerous times around the world, including Africa. He was a doctor without borders and a U.N. appointed member of an international team of epidemiologists that would prove to be instrumental in the eradication of the small pox disease.
Please consider his tried and proven protocol that he has passed on to me. I welcome any and all suggestions for improvements of his protocol, as I am sure he would agree; he was a great man, teacher, mentor and physician.
Sincerely,
Joseph Frankovich, RN, M.D., Ph. D.
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