Posted on 10/11/2014 12:05:32 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
A Brooklyn teenager was rushed to the hospital yesterday after showing symptoms consistent with Ebola.
The 14-year-old boy had a fever and was feeling fluish according to officials who spoke to the Daily News.
He was brought to Brookdale Hospital where tests are being run to see if he has the disease.
He is currently in isolation.
The boy was apparently in Sudan for two weeks and hospitalized there as well, but lied to officials about being sick so he could fly home.
Now, NYPD is working with officials to see if any of his family members should also be quarantined.
It’s still not clear exactly when the boy flew back into the country and just how many people he has been in contact with since returning.
New York City has been preparing for these situations it was recently revealed, with actors going into hospitals and feigning Ebola-like symptoms to see how staff handled the scenario.
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When your son is visiting, give him a hug for me. That also does wonders for our health.
Not likely the big E, unless he was lying about where he went or was deliberately infected.
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I have to think that it has something to do with changing membrane structure/properties. Filoviruses use lipid rafts to enter cells... if something disrupts those, then it could disrupt filovirus endocytosis.
LOL much later with 2 cups of coffee or one mountain dew and a dictionary open in another window.
I thought it was discovered in Congo in 76.
I first learned of colloidal silver when I heard a doctor discussing it on his weekly radio program. He believed in natural remedies first, but traditional medicine when needed. He pointed out that in the days before refrigeration, people put a silver dollar in their milk because it made it keep longer, though they didn’t know why. Silver kills bacteria. This same doctor claimed it will also kill a virus, which isn’t a living organism on it’s own; it must have a host to live and replicate.
I have actually used it to stop colds, sore throats and even a bladder infections, so we always keep some on hand and take it when we go on vacations, as well.
My veterinarian husband (who also takes colloidal silver) backs up the claim that silver is medically beneficial. It is used in devices and bandages in the medical field.
“The boy was apparently in Sudan for two weeks and hospitalized there as well, but lied to officials about being sick so he could fly home.”
Why are the so called experts at CDC, Homeland Security and TSA not stepping up and doing their job to protect Americans from passenger fly ins with Ebola or exposed to Ebola in countries raging with deadly Ebola, without banning or severely restricting air travel from Africa?
They don’t want to. Again, this is a prime example of the need to use Cui Bono, the old Latin phrase which asks the question, “Who benefits?”
So Cui Bono or who benefits with no real travel restrictions from Africa to the USA?:
1. The airlines, which fly people and freight from and to Africa.
2. The businesses which service the air lines and need their business.
3. The need of our left wing progressives to have another unending “war” like the war on poverty. A war on Ebola is the ultimate wet dream of liberals, who never let a good crisis go to waste.
#1 and #2 above are obvious to any of us with half a brain.
#3. Requires a little explanation. A War on Ebola will make the War on Poverty look like a very small wet puddle compared to a full scale and large flood like Noah’s.
A liberal/progressive War on Ebola will require us to hire millions of people with worthless degrees or psychiatric problems to fight this war. We will have shore to shore facilities to provide offices for these previously unhireables. They will require hundreds of thousands of supervisors to motivate and to monitor them and to waste money like VA hospital administrators do now.
Our worthless State Department will expand our embassies around the world to the size of the one in Baghdad to house and office the warriors of the War on Ebola.
Moosella and Jill Biden and the worthless Follywood idols will do thousands of PSAs telling us to spend our time and money supporting the War on Ebola.
They will start marches, marathons and other bs social circle jerks to raise money and to support the War on Ebola.
They will pour gallons of ice water or whatever on sports idols and Follywood idols to support the War on Ebola.
Our military will no longer fight Isis and bad guys, they will be included in the great War on Ebola. Barrack E Obolabama has started that process with opur troops in and being sent to Africa to fight Ebola.
None of the above will save lives. Like the War on Poverty and other expensive liberals wastes, the cause will thrive without any real positive results. Each death from Ebola will result in more money and more worthless people involved in the War on Ebola.
Then, they will tie the War on Ebola with Global Warming to take away any rights we have left.
Haha. It takes me a few minutes to read those papers. But then, I’ve been reading medical journals for years.
Sudan? Could be the other hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus disease. There is an outbreak of it in Uganda, which is a lot closer to the Sudan than are the counties involved in the Ebola outbreak.
Kids these days are a lot more pragmatic and a lot more realistic. They’re almost cynical and I think that in this time and age, they’re just as they need to be to survive and admittedly, succeed in this very difficult world.
I sometimes suspect that this outbreak is indeed Marburg.
The Congo (Zaire) outbreak occurred in August. The Sudan was in June; and they were two different strains.
SUDV is its own strain and was the first known breakout event; there have been multiple outbreaks since 1976. Interestingly, the EBOV outbreak in Zaire was concurrent with the SUDV outbreak in 1976, so maybe history is repeating itself. Or maybe — more likely — it’s hysteria.
I’m thinking that hysteria is the most contagious aspect of these outbreaks. Most people have never heard of Ebola or Marburg until now, and people are always terrified of the unknown, even when the known is demonstrably much more deadly.
Influenza season is rapidly approaching—how many Americans will die of that without anyone showing the least bit of fear or concern?
Be encouraged. There are MANY MANY PATRIOTS - remaining hidden - for now. For now there is nothing we can do.
Everything - everywhere - is compromised - even pulpits!
SHAME on churches! Not all but too many.
We outnumber them - here deep in the caves.
I am a warrior on my keyboard, have been for years.
K.B. Warrior, OleShep
By the way - Grandma Shep
I predict all borders will be closed by the end of the month. I think Obamas rats are going to turn on him.
I’d like to believe we haven’t passed the point of no return, but just see less and less evidence of that. The fact that some of these mid-terms are even close is more discouraging than Obama’s re-election; it defies logic, or I’m just naïve.
My dear Special Forces son has just sent me this excellent article, on exactly how to measure, and follow high Vitamin C treatment of disease.
http://vitamincfoundation.org/www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm
Once they start calling Ebola racist, they'll have the quartet.
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