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Ebola Patient Has By Patricia Doyle
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| Hello, Jeff - It gets even 'better.' According to
this article, the first patient had contact with school age children.
Perry does not indicate what that contact is but the children are being
monitored. I have no idea what they mean by monitoring either. Are
they freely moving about town and simply having their temps taken?
What a bungle this is. Sounds like a comedy of errors. Remember
the US population has been weakened by the years of radiation from Fukushima.
As for the (first) patient, it sounds like his Sister is making plans to sue the hospital. She is complaining about him going to the hospital and being sent home with antibiotics. She says her brother specifically told the hospital that he just came from Liberia. My guess is that the man knew all along he had Ebola and probably knew before he stepped onto the plane in Liberia. How can we stop people who feel they were infected, know they are infected, from coming to the US for first world medical care. It is very unfair to those honest people who stay in their homeland and are fighting to contain Ebola. Those people don't believe in taking advantage of the system in another country. Meanwhile the Texas patient is going to get a lot of expensive medical care on the taxpayer dole so I guess that is not enough it sounds like the sister is planning to make some $$$$$$$ from the hospital. Little does she care that the US hospital had never seen a case of Ebola. I am not sticking up for the hospital as I think the case was bungled but neither do I agree the hospital should be sued. i.e. by the patient or his family. It was the patient who chose to bring Ebola to the US and his family. It was also incumbent upon the patient to mention that he might have Ebola. He obviously thought that or he would not have said that "he just came from Liberia." Thus far we are learning nothing about the second Dallas Ebola patient. The only description given was he or she was an associate of the index case. Anyone who either has or is suspected of having Ebola is a walking time bomb and the public has a right to know a little something about them to determine if the public might have been at risk. I know had I ridden in the ambulance after the index case or if I had been on the plane, I would like to have known about it. According to the article there is a huge Liberian community in Dallas/Ft Worth which is 100,000+ strong.. I wonder how many are here illegally. If the sister does sue in her brothers name they should make something out of his citizenship status. It appears he simply came here with intention of staying, living here. Well, Jeff, it had to happen, i.e Ebola brought here by an individual planning on simply living here. So we can add Ebola to TB, Chagas, Entero 68 and all of the other diseases. Good work, Obama and US government, good work. Looks like I will be talking about the open border again tomorrow, but this time, I have a lot of proof. Patty First US Ebola patient was in contact with school-aged children - Texas governor Published time: October 01, 2014 17:03 Edited time: October 01, 2014 17:58 Get short URL Texas Gov. Rick Perry has confirmed that the first US diagnosed Ebola patient, who is now in serious but stable condition in Dallas, had contact with children before he showed symptoms of the virus. At a Wednesday news conference, Texas officials and doctors said they do not believe the children have contracted the virus, but all involved will be monitored for any signs of infection. The patient, a male according to reports, was admitted on Sunday to an isolation unit at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital after seeking medical care there just two days prior. A spokeswoman for the hospital said Wednesday that the patient is now in serious condition, Reuters reported. Edward Goodman, an infectious disease specialist at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital, said the patient’s symptoms were not clear at the time he initially sought care, National Public Radio reported. “He was evaluated for his illness, which was very nondescript. He had some laboratory tests, which were not very impressive, and he was dismissed with some antibiotics,” Goodman said. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, speaks at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014 (Reuters / Tami Chappell) Yet the man’s sister told AP that the man had relayed to doctors that he came from Liberia. Still, despite the current spread of Ebola in West Africa, doctors only offered antibiotics. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday that the man tested positive for the Ebola virus. “This is the first patient diagnosed outside of Africa to our knowledge with this particular strain of Ebola,” CDC director Thomas Frieden said. The virus is spreading rapidly in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, claiming more than 3,000 lives since March. Smaller outbreaks have occurred in Nigeria and Senegal. The Dallas patient is being treated in a strict isolation area, Frieden said, adding that proper measures are being taken to halt any spread of the virus in the US. “I have no doubt that we will control this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country,” he said at a news conference. US officials, however, will likely be questioned as to how the patient was not immediately isolated upon initially visiting the hospital on Friday. The patient developed symptoms on Sept. 24, and then first went to the hospital on Sept. 26, when he was sent home with antibiotics. The disease is transmitted only by those who are sick or have died from Ebola, a virus that spreads through direct contact with blood or body fluids. Symptoms can include muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, high fever, and both internal and external bleeding. CDC’s Frieden did say that while there is “zero risk” that anyone on the flight with the patient from Liberia could have contracted Ebola, since the patient was not infectious at the time, he acknowledged that those in later contact with the patient are at risk. “It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual ... could develop Ebola in the coming weeks,” he said. Members of the 10,000-plus Liberian community in Dallas said they were being cautious about the situation. “We’ve been telling people to try to stay away from social gatherings,” said Stanley Gaye, president of the Liberian Community Association of Dallas-Fort Worth, at a community meeting on Tuesday. “We need to know who it is so that [family members] can all go get tested,” Gaye told AP. “If they are aware, they should let us know.” While the identity and gender of the patient have not been confirmed, officials that attended the CDC briefing repeatedly used the male personal pronoun in their descriptions. The only confirmed information was that the man was visiting family in the US and that he was not part of public health teams dispatched to address the spread of Ebola in Liberia. A general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas October 1, 2014 (Reuters / Mike Stone) A general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas October 1, 2014 (Reuters / Mike Stone) Officials are working to identify anyone who has come into contact with the patient since he returned from Liberia, hoping to monitor them for symptoms over the next 21 days to see if they develop a fever. If they do, their contacts will also be identified and monitored. “The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation, this case of Ebola so that it doesn’t spread widely. It is possible a family member or friend could develop the disease in next couple weeks,” Frieden said. “This is core epidemiological work.” Both Dallas County and Texas state health officials said their agencies are monitoring closely any public health concerns that may arise from the Ebola case. “We have no other suspected cases in the state of Texas at this time,” said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas department of state health services, at the CDC briefing. Zachary S. Thompson, the Dallas County director of health and human services, added that “Dallas County residents should be aware that the public health is our number one priority. Our staff will continue to work hard to protect the health and welfare of the citizens in Dallas county.” A spokeswoman for the Dallas County department of health told The Guardian that the county will be “conducting a public health follow-up” with the patient to determine travel history and other pertinent details. The White House reported that US President Barack Obama has been updated on the latest in the case. “The president and Director Frieden discussed the stringent isolation protocols under which the patient is being treated, as well as ongoing efforts to trace the patient’s contacts to mitigate the risk of additional cases,” a White House spokesman said. The patient is the fifth to receive care to fight Ebola in the United States. In August, both Nancy Writebol and Kevin Brantley were treated at Emory University hospital in Atlanta with an experimental drug called ZMapp after arriving in the US. Both ultimately recovered and were discharged. Dr. Rick Sacra, an aid worker who contracted Ebola in Monrovia, was released from a Nebraska medical center last week. A fourth patient, believed to be a World Health Organization doctor who was treating patients in Sierra Leone, is receiving treatment at Emory. A fifth American, who had American-Liberian citizenship, died in Monrovia in July. The CDC is dispatching a team of epidemiologists and other experts to Texas in response to the preliminary Ebola diagnosis. There are currently over 130 agency experts in west Africa as well. According to statistics released by the CDC in conjunction with the World Health Organization, the virus has infected 6,574 people in West Africa, 3,091 of whom have died. On Friday, the WHO warned that the figures “vastly underestimate the true scale of the epidemic.” Last week, the CDC warned that Ebola infections in West Africa could hit 1.4 million by the end of January if current trends continue and no immediate, large-scale increase in response measures is taken. http://rt.com/usa/192284-ebola-us-home-antibiotics/ |
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