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'No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before': Outraged family eyes lawsuit...
The London Daily Mail ^ | October 9, 2014 | Josh Gardner and Michael Zennie and Laura Collins In Dallas, Texas

Posted on 10/08/2014 11:24:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

* Thomas Eric Duncan died at 7:51am on Wednesday after receiving no potentially lifesaving blood transfusion or ZMapp

* Five other Ebola patients treated in the U.S. are either cured or in the process of being treated

* Doctors began giving Duncan an experimental antiviral drug on Monday, but it was too late

* Hospital announced 'with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment' that Duncan died after 'fighting courageously against the insidious disease'

* Duncan exposed 48 people to the disease before he was hospitalized, including his fiancée and two of her children

* His condition took a turn for the worse this weekend and by Tuesday he was unresponsive and medically sedated

* His body still carries the disease and must now be disposed of

* CDC rules call for his remains to be wrapped in a plastic shroud and zipped up in two leak-proof bags then cremated

The family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are venting their outrage that the late Liberian may not have received the same quality of care leading up to his death Wednesday morning as other patients treated in the U.S. for the dreaded virus.

'No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before. This is the first time,' Duncan's furious nephew Joe Weeks told ABC.

Weeks and others in Duncan's family are calling his treatment 'unfair,' after seeing other patients pulled from the brink of death in government funded evacuation planes and using life-saving blood transfusions and cutting edge drugs...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: dallas; ebola; texas; thomasduncan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

POS family of a POS.


61 posted on 10/09/2014 4:52:39 AM PDT by YourAdHere (I just took a big Obama.)
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To: chris37

Parasites indeed.


62 posted on 10/09/2014 4:53:27 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: combat_boots

I think the drug was “ZMAPP” was funded by the US Army and probably with huge grant funding. The company that makes the drug is heavily involved in manufacturing vaccines in conjunction with others. Follow the money. Kentucky Bioprocessing is involved b/c they produce the tobacco the antibodies are grown on...the trail is out there.


63 posted on 10/09/2014 4:54:53 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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To: skr

There is some question about that. But even if he did say, Liberia, I doubt whether that would have aroused suspicion.


64 posted on 10/09/2014 4:58:39 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: combat_boots
I don’t understand how a company can stay in business without manufacturing/servicing its clients.

The drug is still experimental and has only been used because patient circumstance has been so dire. Production had not been ramped up because it was not and still is not available on the market.

You don't think they'd love to have enough on hand to treat millions right now? It takes time to create the monoclonal antibodies.

65 posted on 10/09/2014 5:01:02 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks. Of course, a shyster lawyer may try to have the law declared invalid.


66 posted on 10/09/2014 5:01:11 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
'No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before': Outraged family eyes lawsuit...

Yeah, well, we've never had a Kenyan Marxist homosexual America-hating racist muslim community organizer in the White House before either, so there you go.

67 posted on 10/09/2014 5:14:20 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before’

I believe this is true, but I also believe that the Ebola virus is not indigenous to the USA.

Therefore logic would dictate that virus would need to be introduced to the area before death would occur from same.

68 posted on 10/09/2014 5:18:44 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: RegulatorCountry

Not to treat millions, but the date the drug was exhausted is listed as August. My point is not that it isn’t equipped to treat millions but that the information indicates there is nothing at all. But there is payroll and operations to pay for. It makes no sense to me.


69 posted on 10/09/2014 5:26:55 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: fatnotlazy

The hospital said that he said “Africa”. But then the hospital admitted that the CDC requires that an answer of “Africa” and ANY fever means quarantine and test. They failed and they admitted that.


70 posted on 10/09/2014 5:32:12 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the CDC should have shipped him and all the racist supporters back to Africa. That includes the two revs. I still wish all the cotton farmers had picked cotton like my two sisters and I did in the 50s and 60s.


71 posted on 10/09/2014 6:01:18 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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To: combat_boots

My understanding is that the drug is still experimental and was only used to treat the few ebola patient that it was because they likely would have died otherwise. It’s not yet approved.


72 posted on 10/09/2014 6:13:35 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: GeronL

Seems he had the freedom to die where he wanted, and didn’t seek medical attention promptly.


73 posted on 10/09/2014 6:20:58 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Well, you have me there.


74 posted on 10/09/2014 6:21:00 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sock needed to stuff into ungrateful mouth.


75 posted on 10/09/2014 6:22:22 AM PDT by jetson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Full title: 'No one has died of Ebola in the U.S. before': Outraged family eyes lawsuit as America's patient zero succumbs after he was initially turned away by doctors and later refused a blood transfusion.

And now, thanks to your selfish, idiot relative, how many more will die? Kiss my @$$. You ingrates. The others who were saved were known to have had the disease from the get-go, and were treated within enough time. Your moron didn't inform the right people, even if the hospital screwed up, and now he's dead, and may take others with him. Go to Hell.

76 posted on 10/09/2014 6:27:09 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: ICCtheWay

Wasn’t there a story a couple weeks ago that indicated that there are 200,000 already existing visas from infected countries? Cancel them!


77 posted on 10/09/2014 6:34:58 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A lot more than 48 were exposed, I suspect.


78 posted on 10/09/2014 6:35:46 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sure, give them $2 million. Then give them the bill for all of the crap that we spent on his African ass since he got here.

What a bunch of A-holes.


79 posted on 10/09/2014 6:37:28 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

The hospital bill alone was $500,000 per another article.


80 posted on 10/09/2014 6:39:33 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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