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TREATED. AND TO BE CLEAR, EXPERTS AT UNMC DO NOT EXPECT THIS TO TURN INTO A COVID STYLE OUTBREAK. THE PATIENTS COMING TO OMAHA WILL GO TO THE NATIONAL QUARANTINE UNIT. THEY’LL BE MONITORED FOR SYMPTOMS DURING THE VIRUS’S INCUBATION PERIOD. IF PATIENTS WERE TO DEVELOP SYMPTOMS, THEN THEY’D BE MOVED TO THE BIOCONTAINMENT UNIT. THOSE UNITS HAVE GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION OVER THE YEARS. TREATING PATIENTS FOR EBOLA AND COVID 19. KETV NEWSWATCH 7 AARON HEGARTY JOINS US LIVE WITH MORE ON THE HISTORY AARON. YEAH, BILL, THE QUARANTINE UNIT IS HERE INSIDE THE DAVIS GLOBAL CENTER, JUST OFF 42ND AND LEAVENWORTH. AND IT SHOULD BE NO SURPRISE THAT THE PASSENGERS ARE COMING HERE. THE QUARANTINE, THE NATIONAL QUARANTINE UNIT IS THE ONLY FEDERAL FEDERALLY FUNDED QUARANTINE UNIT IS DESIGNED TO MONITOR PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO HIGH CONSEQUENCE INFECTIOUS DISEASES. AS FOR THE BIOCONTAINMENT UNIT, YOU’LL REMEMBER IT WAS USED FOR COVID IN 2020 AND FOR EBOLA IN 2014, WHEN U.S. CITIZENS WERE EVACUATED FROM AFRICA. OFFICIALS SPOKE ON THE HISTORY OF BOTH UNITS TODAY. FOR DECADES, WE HAVE INVESTED IN THE PEOPLE, FACILITIES AND TRAINING NEEDED TO RESPOND TO SITUATIONS LIKE THE ONES THAT FACE US TODAY AND HAVE GIVEN US THE CONFIDENCE THAT THE PUBLIC WILL BE KEPT SAFE. IN THE EBOLA SITUATION. THREE PATIENTS WERE TREATED IN 2014. ONE OF THEM DIED. IN THIS SITUATION. THE HOPE IS THAT NO ONE WILL ON THE WHO IS ON THE SHIP WILL DEVELOP THE VIRUS. BACK T
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History of infectious disease treatment at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine
Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center will receive and monitor American citizens on the cruise ship impacted by the hantavirus outbreak.This isn’t the first time Nebraska has helped in a situation like this.The quarantine unit took care of COVID-19 patients before it was declared a pandemic and Ebola patients more than a decade ago.Given that history, it should be no surprise that the hantavirus patients are coming to Omaha.The National Quarantine Unit in Omaha is the only federally funded quarantine unit and is designed to handle “high-consequence” infectious diseases. It opened in 2005. Nine years later, in 2014, it was activated for the first time for Ebola patients.These were U.S. citizens who were evacuated from Africa. In the Ebola situation, three patients were treated in 2014. One of them died.The individuals who will be monitored in Omaha with hantavirus have no symptoms.Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center will receive and monitor American citizens on the cruise ship impacted by the hantavirus outbreak.
This isn’t the first time Nebraska has helped in a situation like this.
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The quarantine unit took care of COVID-19 patients before it was declared a pandemic and Ebola patients more than a decade ago.
Given that history, it should be no surprise that the hantavirus patients are coming to Omaha.
The National Quarantine Unit in Omaha is the only federally funded quarantine unit and is designed to handle “high-consequence” infectious diseases.
It opened in 2005. Nine years later, in 2014, it was activated for the first time for Ebola patients.
These were U.S. citizens who were evacuated from Africa. In the Ebola situation, three patients were treated in 2014. One of them died.
The individuals who will be monitored in Omaha with hantavirus have no symptoms.
Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.
NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
