Thursday, December 11, 2014

Will receive new patient at SCSU. nurse ftrom San Francisco volunteering in Sierra Leone with NGO got needle stick injury taking care of documented critically ill Ebola patient. High risk exposure. Flying in today. Woods_MedEvacFile. docx Saw this evening. Donned and doffed just droplet precautions since she is asymptomatic. Showered out anyway. is comfortable, received VSV post-exposure prophylaxis. Presented Ebola talk to ACD (Advisory Committee to the Director) of NIH. Great reception. Moncef Slaoui (GSK) is member of ACD and he was cordial and agreed completely about the need for an RCT for Ebola Vaccine. Ian Lipkin (also on ACD) strongly felt against it and wants open access. Am surprised at Ian since I thought he was more of a scientist. Note that he is not a clinical investigator; he is a good friend of mine. He is moved by all the suffering and death. The Swiss Phase 1 trial on VSV has been put on hold due to 4 cases out of 39 of “arthritis” (mild). We have seen arthralgias and myalgias (expected) in our VSV trial at the Clinical Center, but not arthritis even at 10x the dose of the Swiss study. Puzzling…. Gave entrance interview with producer from CBS who wants to do a profile on me.