Posted on 08/10/2014 12:46:23 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
See the link and their screaming headlines:
Did US Ebola victim change flights at Heathrow? Patient flew from Liberia to Brussels but route to Dallas could have taken him through London
It is feared that as many as 12 Americans may have become infected through contact with the patient
A second male patient, who came in close contact with several children, is being watched today as his condition was upgraded to serious
First male patient who traveled to Dallas, Texas from Liberia is quarantined at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
He is first person diagnosed with Ebola in U.S. as CDC ‘disease detectives’ arrived in Texas today to track down anyone he came in contact with
Patient arrived in U.S. on September 20 - after flying from Liberia via Brussels in Belgium - but did not develop symptoms until September 24
He attended Texas Health Presbyterian on September 26 - but was dismissed with antibiotics
He was rushed to hospital vomiting two days later by EMTs
Looks like he did take the brussels-—>london flight and then on to the US.
It doesn't matter what a hospital's procedures are if that hospital's internal communications are screwed up.
Sounds like what Obama would say if he were the examining physician.
Bump, I was hoping for such a thread to track the news/history.
September 5th there was a “prediction” that a wild case would manifest inside the US by the end of the month. They were right.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3200675/posts
Ebola Could Reach the U.S. By the End of This Month
The Wire ^ | 9/4/14 | David Ludwig
There is an 18 percent chance that a case of the Ebola virus will reach the United States by the end of September, according to a study published on Tuesday in PLOS Currents: Outbreaks.
bkm
They are now denying that they are closely monitoring a possible 2nds case, after the head of the Dallas Health Dept said it. Do any of them know how to talk, or tell the truth? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2775608/CDC-confirms-Dallas-patient-isolation-testing-returning-region-plagued-Ebola-HAS-deadly-virus.html
Slowly, bit by bit, HCW’s with integrity are revealing the truth despite efforts by Admin to obfuscate, misdirect, and outright lie about the facts of the situation. God bless them.
My thoughts keep turning to lamposts and rope. Lots of rope.
NYT: Liberian Officials Identify Ebola Victim in Texas as Thomas Eric DuncanMONROVIA, Liberia — A man who flew to Dallas and was later found to have the Ebola virus was identified by senior Liberian government officials on Wednesday as Thomas Eric Duncan, a resident of Monrovia in his mid-40s.
Mr. Duncan, the first person to develop symptoms outside Africa during the current epidemic, had direct contact with a woman stricken by Ebola on Sept. 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States, the woman’s parents and Mr. Duncan’s neighbors said.
In a pattern often seen here in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, the family of the woman, Marthalene Williams, 19, took her by taxi to a hospital with Mr. Duncan’s help on Sept. 15 after failing to get an ambulance, said her parents, Emmanuel and Amie Williams. She was convulsing and seven months pregnant, they said.
Turned away from a hospital for lack of space in its Ebola treatment ward, the family said it took Ms. Williams back home in the evening, and that she died hours later, around 3 a.m.
Mr. Duncan, who was a family friend and also a tenant in a house owned by the Williams family, rode in the taxi in the front passenger seat while Ms. Williams, her father and her brother, Sonny Boy, shared the back seat, her parents said. Mr. Duncan then helped carry Ms. Williams, who was no longer able to walk, back to the family home that evening, neighbors said.
“He was holding her by the legs, the pa was holding her arms and Sonny Boy was holding her back,” said Arren Seyou, 31, who witnessed the scene and occupies the room next to Mr. Duncan’s.
Boy, 21, also started getting sick about a week ago, his family said, around the same time that Mr. Duncan first started showing symptoms.
In a sign of how furiously the disease can spread, an ambulance had come to their house on Wednesday to pick up Sonny Boy. Another ambulance picked up a woman and her daughter from the same area, and a team of body collectors came to retrieve the body of yet another woman — all four appeared to have been infected in a chain reaction started by Marthalene Williams.
A few minutes after the ambulance left, the parents got a call telling them that Sonny Boy had died on the way to the hospital.
Mr. Duncan had lived in the neighborhood, called 72nd SKD Boulevard, for the past two years, living by himself in a small room that he rented from the Williams couple. He had told that them and his neighbors that his son lived in the United States, played baseball, and was trying to get him to come to America.
For the past year, Mr. Duncan had worked as a driver at Safeway Cargo, the Liberian customs clearance agent for FedEx, said Henry Brunson, the company’s manager.
In an office with a large FedEx sign outside the building in downtown Monrovia, Mr. Brunson said that Mr. Duncan quit abruptly on Sept. 4, giving no reason. But Mr. Brunson said he knew that Mr. Duncan had family members in the United States as well.
“His sister came from the United States and he asked for a day off so that he could go meet her at the Mamba Point Hotel,” Mr. Brunson said, mentioning a hotel popular among foreigners. “He quit a few weeks after that.”
Thomas Eric Duncan was exposed to highly virulent Ebola slime on 15 Sept. and left for the USA on the 19th after quitting his job on the 4th.
The CDC assumption of a 5.5 day time spread for 50% of people getting Ebola would make for a 50-50 possibility of T.E.D. manifesting early symptoms on the plane from Europe to the USA.
The CDC has to know this and should be contacting all the passengers on that return flight.
If they are not, and people on that plane get sick and get others sick, then the comment about rope up thread applies.
United Airlines on Dallas Ebola patient: CDC ‘has informed us that the patient said he flew part of his trip on United’; ‘While the CDC states it is unnecessary for it or the airline to contact others who were on the patient’s flights, United is providing information about the flights United believes the patient took, based on information provided by the CDC’ - statement
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2014/10/01/united-airlines-on-dallas-ebola-patient-cdc-has/
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