The Ebola virus has made landfall in the United States with patient pop up in both Dallas , Texas and New York City . Butdon’t freak out ! To assist incorporate the outbreak , the CDC swear on a fistful ofbiocontainment isolation unitsto quarantine these highly infectious folks .
Luckily , the iso - ward at Emory University is practically in the CDC ’s backyard , and Dr. Bruce Ribner is here to give you a tour .
There are only four such facility nationally that are restricted to handle highly infectious diseases such as Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever : The National Institute for health in Bethesda , MD ; theUniversity of Nebraska Medical Centerin Omaha ; St. Patrick ’s Hospital in Missoula , MT ; and Emory University , just outside of Atlanta .
After patients are diagnosed andtransported to one of these facility , they are systematically cut off from the surrounding environment to belittle the spread of the disease . In the video above , Dr. Bruce Ribner of Emory University Hospital explains how , exactly , his facility keeps the deadly disease in lockdown . [ SciAm ]
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