Ebola in the USA: Are You Concerned?

[kalm]

[dbackjon]

Agree - sorry CID - you and yours are stuck in West Africa til this burns out.

lol


Says a dedicated acolyte of the supposed Party of Science TM

Kerry says the AGW sceptics are flat earthers but they dont hold a candle to you guys.

[Ibanez]

I dont snuggle with sick people, so no.

This thing is not airborne, people.

This. A good rule of thumb is try to avoid people that have been to Africa.

and Africans for good measure.

[BDKJMU]

"....Health officials in Dallas said Wednesday that they believed Mr. Duncan came in contact with at least 12 to 18 people when he was experiencing symptoms. So far, none has been confirmed infected.

The five children, who possibly had contact with Mr. Duncan at a home over the weekend, attended four different schools, which authorities said would remain open. As a precaution, they said all the schools — including one high school, one middle school, and two elementary schools — would undergo a thorough cleaning.....

Dr. Mark Lester, executive vice president of the Texas Health Resources System, said the hospital staff had been instructed to ask patients about their travel history, following the advice of federal authorities.

That checklist, he said, was utilized by a nurse and the patient volunteered that he had just come from Liberia. “Regretfully that information was not fully communicated” to the full medical team, Dr. Lester said.

As a result, that information was not used in the clinical diagnosis and Mr. Duncan was sent home, with the diagnostic team believing he simply had a low-grade fever from a viral infection. He was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance two days later, his condition having significantly deteriorated. He remains in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas in serious condition.

In the time between Mr. Duncan’s trips to the hospital, health officials said he came into contact with more people while he was symptomatic and infectious. The contacts possibly included the five children who saw him over the weekend before going to school on Monday.

Other people who came into contact with him include relatives and the medical technicians who took him by ambulance to the hospital. At least three Dallas Fire and Rescue emergency medical technicians were being monitored and were in isolation at home, according to officials.

Even the emergency vehicle that was used — Ambulance No. 37 — is in isolation and not in service.

The five children who had contact with Mr. Duncan are being kept home from school, according to David Daigle, a spokesman for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team that is working with local health officials to trace the contacts. Adults without symptoms do not have to stay home or be quarantined, but will be visited once a day for 21 days by health teams to have their temperatures taken and be checked for signs of illness. The first round of visits to contacts took place on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Daigle said....."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/us/af ... .html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

When you have a sick guy who has just traveled from one of those 4 African outbreak countries in question that should set off all kinds of alarm bells. How the f*ck would a nurse not pass that along?

[89Hen]

As a precaution, they said all the schools — including one high school, one middle school, and two elementary schools — would undergo a thorough cleaning.....

Yeah, that's going to do anything.

[Ibanez]

As a precaution, they said all the schools — including one high school, one middle school, and two elementary schools — would undergo a thorough cleaning.....

Yeah, that's going to do anything.

Mr. Clean will clean a whole house, and everything that's in it.....

[CID1990]

what

whats wrong with you klam

that was not only non-ambiguous but also true

[CAA Flagship]

I dont snuggle with sick people, so no.

This thing is not airborne, people.

This. A good rule of thumb is try to avoid people that have been to Africa.

and Africans for good measure.

That's raysis.

[Ivytalk]

Just stop immigration by any West Africans until this blows over. What's so hard about that? It's not racist: it's practical, and necessary.

[kalm]

Just stop immigration by any West Africans until this blows over. What's so hard about that? It's not racist: it's practical, and necessary.

EA(b).

[kalm]

what

whats wrong with you klam

that was not only non-ambiguous but also true

I'm not ambigous. I'm an open book. You're just slow sometimes.

[CAA Flagship]

Ebola: Not concerned (yet)
Ebonics: Terrified

[Ibanez]

Ebola: Not concerned (yet)
Ebonics: Terrified

spanglish?

[CitadelGrad]

Patient is already recovering.

Only because Obama is the president. That patient would already be dead during a Republican administration.

At least Ronnie Reagan was able to kill a bunch of you fags with AIDS.

[travelinman67]

Patient is already recovering.

At least Ronnie Reagan was able to kill a bunch of you fags with AIDS.

Negative. Reagan worked in Hollyweird, was Gov. in the land of fruits and nuts...he was definitely not homophobic.

Tip O'Neil on the other hand, was a hard drinking Irishman from a white working class man's-man community...and controlled the CIA's budget...covertly.

[CID1990]

what

whats wrong with you klam

that was not only non-ambiguous but also true

I'm not ambigous. I'm an open book. You're just slow sometimes.

no youre intentionally ambiguous so you can reserve the option to deny having said something goofy

[travelinman67]

At least Ronnie Reagan was able to kill a bunch of you fags with AIDS.

Negative. Reagan worked in Hollyweird, was Gov. in the land of fruits and nuts...he was definitely not homophobic.

Tip O'Neil on the other hand, was a hard drinking Irishman from a white working class man's-man community...and controlled the CIA's budget...covertly.

Ooops...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 70552.html

[kalm]

I'm not ambigous. I'm an open book. You're just slow sometimes.

no youre intentionally ambiguous so you can reserve the option to deny having said something goofy

It's better to be decisive than correct, eh CID?

[CID1990]

no youre intentionally ambiguous so you can reserve the option to deny having said something goofy

It's better to be decisive than correct, eh CID?

Only a precious few of us can be both

[mainejeff]

WTF is up with Texas?......CDC needs "proper permits" to enter the apartment???? These morons are still part of the United States of America, right? Don't the Feds supersede the state in a case like this?

F*ck Texas........those f*ckin cowboy f*ggots can't secede fast enough IMO.

[houndawg]

I'm not ambigous. I'm an open book. You're just slow sometimes.

no youre intentionally ambiguous so you can reserve the option to deny having said something goofy

The entire multiverse is ambiguous at its most basic level.

[Ibanez]

Patient is already recovering.

Only because Obama is the president. That patient would already be dead during a Republican administration.

At least Ronnie Reagan was able to kill a bunch of you fags with AIDS.

Will someone Ray Rice this prick. You're the reason we can't have nice things!

[BDKJMU]

Missouri Doctor: ‘It’s Just A Matter Of Time Before [Ebola] Is Carried To Every Corner Of The World'

".....“For months, doctors in my community — since we had a meeting six weeks ago — have been convinced that the United States will be importing clusters regularly. Right now, on the continent of West Africa, there are a million people in isolation, in quarantine, because of Ebola, and ten thousand passengers leave West Africa every single day. It’s just a matter of time before this disease is carried to every corner of the world.”

He insists the CDC is underplaying the threat posed by the disease and is intentionally misleading the public.

“They said the chance of importing a cluster — just two weeks ago — was extremely small, yet we knew that it was a sure thing. And the very same day that the President echoed [Director Tom] Frieden’s sentiment at the CDC that it’s very small, that very same day, they made the misdiagnoses in Dallas and sent this infectious guy home to infect these other people.”

Mobley said it is inevitable that an Ebola crisis will break out in the United States.

“That disease is going to consume every third world country on the planet, and then we will be importing these clusters on a regular basis. I have no question that we will be able to stomp out this cluster in Dallas, but what happens when it happens on a weekly basis? Already the Dallas Health Department is overwhelmed; they’re flying people to Atlanta. I don’t care how advanced any industrialized nation is, there is a threshold where we will outstretch the resources and it becomes uncontrolled.”
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/1 ... the-world/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BDKJMU]

Ebola in DC?
"Patient Being Evaluated for Possible Ebola at D.C.'s Howard University Hospital

A patient with Ebola-like symptoms is being treated at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., a hospital spokesperson confirmed late Friday morning......"
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local ... 25181.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The drums for banning entry into the U.S. for people who've recently been to thes West African countries is going to reach a crescendo..

[93henfan]

Ebola in DC?
"Patient Being Evaluated for Possible Ebola at D.C.'s Howard University Hospital

A patient with Ebola-like symptoms is being treated at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., a hospital spokesperson confirmed late Friday morning......"
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local ... 25181.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The drums for banning entry into the U.S. for people who've recently been to thes West African countries is going to reach a crescendo..

Shit! Does this mean I have to stop becoming blood brothers with people I meet on the Metro?