Only a microscopic speck of sadness next to the human loss of life mountain of sadness.
Scary that government could kill your per possibly without cause.
How soon will they be putting down old people ?
stupid too. Why not isolate the dog and get the valuable information on whether it’s readily transmitted to dogs. The only problem is, absence of Ebola doesn’t guarantee doggy immunity.
How many people have been exposed in Spain?
poor pooch. rip.
Wasn’t it even confirmed? This is horrible if it wasn’t
This is real life folks. This has to happen every time there is a pet involved with an Ebola case.
Have we all forgotten that it is ANIMALS that are the carriers that start Ebola outbreaks in humans in the first place?
And while I feel really bad about the dog I absolutely refuse on every level to allow myself to advocate saving a pet when a human being’s life (or many human beings) might be at any nonzero risk of catching Ebola by letting that pet live.
That’s hard, but it’s necessary.
Do YOU want to be the one living with the consequences when three months later four more people die because of the dog that you thought was ‘ok’?
There is nothing good about any of this. Not a thing. Not until it’s over.
They should have sent her dog to America.
Where it could have died a natural death...
Shot, by a policeman.
at least the dog didn’t have to endure a visit from Jesse Jackson.
Doggone.
I hope they learn from this nurse what went wrong. I still think they are underestimating this disease.
But I am happy that no more cases have been reported in Texas. If Duncan was contagious from the 24th to the 26th when he was hospitalized, we are now 12 days past that. Too early to sound the all clear, but since Duncan developed symptoms on what’s thought to be the 9th day since he was exposed, the odds are good we won’t see any additional cases. Of course Duncan could have been exposed before helping the pregnant lady, which would mean it took longer than 9 days for him to develop symptoms.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Dang it, they just rushed a second person to the hospital with symptoms of Ebola who had contact with Duncan.
[Sad]
What is sad it that people care more about their pets than they do people.
Good thing there’s not any bats in Dallas.
Oh, wait...
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...