Nelson on providing medical care to Haiti earthquake victims

As the situation in Haiti begins to look even more dire, the first victims coming out of Haiti have already begun to be treated at hospitals in Miami. Among them, Jackson Memorial has been on the front lines of treating victims of the horrific earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. Sen. Bill Nelson, who has been working with the State department to help coordinate relief efforts, visited the trauma care center serving victims of the earthquake. Afterward he met with patients being treated for injuries sustained in the quake and the doctors who are treating them. Doctors from UM/Jackson are also currently in Haiti helping with relief efforts.

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[caysayfla]

I'm sorry, but what does AIDS have to do with anything? Unless the people going over there trying to help have sex with the quake victims, there is absolutely no chance of an influx of AIDS from people returning.

[WinterHaven]

Just telling it like it is-TB is a disease of poverty; these people also are HEAVY with AIDS, immune compromised, and expect plagues in the near future including meningitis all of which are HIGHLY contagious.

[caysayfla]

Here's hoping you're the first victim of the "horrible" diseases they bring back.

[WinterHaven]

Haiti is full of TUBERCULOSIS, which is highly contagious. Haiti will soon have plague: Dysentery, Cholera, and other diarrhea diseases. If you go to Haiti-please stay there and don't bring those diseases back to America. Amazing how people forget just how disease ridden Haiti is and that was even BEFORE the earthquake. Haitians often have tuberculosis being a disease of poverty, even resistant to medications-and they all bring it to America.