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Patients’ Symptoms Raise Concern About Ebola in New York
nytimes ^ | DENISE GRADY and MARC SANTORAAUG

Posted on 08/04/2014 8:05:57 PM PDT by Morgana

Heightened concern about the Ebola virus has led to alarms being raised at three hospitals in New York City. But so far, no Ebola cases have turned up.

The latest episode involved a man who had recently been to West Africa, and who went to the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan late Sunday with a high fever and gastrointestinal problems, the hospital reported on Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ebola; newyork

1 posted on 08/04/2014 8:05:57 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Bad time to have an open border...


2 posted on 08/04/2014 8:06:43 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Chode

bump


3 posted on 08/04/2014 8:07:50 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: TigerClaws

Bad time to have an open border...


Prez 0bola disagrees.


4 posted on 08/04/2014 8:10:08 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Morgana
Just a matter of time...
5 posted on 08/04/2014 8:17:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Morgana
right now, we're a fugitive from the law of averages...
6 posted on 08/04/2014 8:22:34 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: TigerClaws

It is ALWAYS a bad time to have an open border.


7 posted on 08/04/2014 8:27:44 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Morgana

“spread only by direct contact with bodily fluids”
I suppose ingesting by breathing in aerosol-borne ‘fluids’:
same/same.


8 posted on 08/04/2014 8:40:26 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Morgana

But, the GOVERNMENT is capable of handling this. Right, NYT?


9 posted on 08/04/2014 8:42:03 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: Jane Long

It’s perfectly fine with the dems/repubs to destroy our country with open borders, but don’t dare impeach the cause of it because you may be called a racist. They are all so brave.


10 posted on 08/04/2014 8:56:11 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Morgana
"The wind had picked up again, it made strange hooting sound in some empty doorway, and farther away he thought he could hear bootheels pacing off the night, rundown bootheels somewhere in the foothills coming to him on the chilly draft of this early morning breeze. Dirty bootheels clocking their way into the grave of the West." From the novel 'The Stand' by Stephen King
11 posted on 08/04/2014 9:15:37 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Morgana
Maybe this is a real situation and maybe it's manufactured for a reason.

We shouldn't discount the possibility ‘they’ just want to see how NY’ers will respond to even the thought of an ebola outbreak.

Cynical I know. Tin foil hat off.

12 posted on 08/04/2014 9:25:48 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Kartographer

What is the expression epidemiologists use: “pucker factor”?
Blue Oyster Cult’s ‘Don’t fear the reaper”, brrrrrrrrrrr.


13 posted on 08/04/2014 9:26:44 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
New York City Conducts Largest Ever Surprise Bioterror Response Drill

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/01/health-department-conducts-largest-no-notice-emergency-response-drill-in-nyc-history/

14 posted on 08/04/2014 10:29:02 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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