Posted on 10/09/2014 5:29:54 PM PDT by re_nortex
A Dallas County Sheriff's deputy is back at home after officials with the Texas Department of State Health Services said Thursday that he tested negative for Ebola.
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Isn't that the same thing that they did with Thomas Eric Duncan? And why is there no reporting of what exactly what Sgt. Michael Monnig did have?
Given the underlying....smell I get from this outbreak reaching America scant weeks before our general election I have to wonder about the negative results of the test as well.
what are the chances this has all been neatly packaged...and served up to dissuade voters from visiting the polls?
Perhaps this time it wont be black panthers in front of certain polling places,...but rather troupes of Liberian Drummers...
Wondering how they quickly come to the conclusion that a rapidly mutating virus is not what the patient has?
Have they acknowledged that Ebola is a rapidly mutating virus? Us "little folk" have pretty much figured out that it had to have mutated recently, but the gov is still in "reassure the public" mode.
Given the fear of Ebola infection, sounds like a few more days of observation were in order. It’s not only a positive Ebola test you’re looking for, it’s evidence of gradual changes in his white blood count (usually a decrease with viral infections with change in indices, the sub-groups), kidney function tests, start of a fever, GI symptoms and signs, bloodshot eyes, any evidence of slight blood in the urine or other bleeding. . the whole clinical picture. . . which he may not follow closely at home. Maybe they’ll check his blood count and do an Ebola test daily. . Would be interesting to know. .
Courtesy ping to OliviaForever to get her take on this. Yes, we do have a divergent viewpoint on this, but she seems to analyze things in a rational manner.
Sounds like Art has a medical background, and I suppose that the deputy that will be monitored outside the hospital. However, Ebola is not a disease that symptoms go away without any treatment and instead seems to be a downward spiral to death. The chances of the deputy having Ebola are at this point lower than the chance of you or having it as I doubt the hospital would let him go if they were not sure.
Thanks for the kind response and I sincerely hope you're right. If it turns out that I'm wrong and guilty of knee-jerking and overreacting on this because of my intense hatred for hussein, I'll be gracious in defeat.
Now give him a raise and a medal.
They didn’t test Duncon the first visit.
The hospital that let Patient Zero go is going to be in deep cowpoop when they get sued. Doctors and hospitals to not want that to happen again or they would be sued big time.
As for the deputy, they should have put him in protective gear, but I bet that all his symptoms were psychosomatic.
The big problem over the next few months is that lots of people in the US and Europe will be running to the hospital whenever they have a cold or slight case of the flu.
That is going to get very expensive as hospitals are not going to tell someone with the flu to go home as there is a very, very small chance it it Ebola.
There were false negatives in West Africa, people were sent home, infected others, and came back to the hospital a couple of days later, sicker and testing positive.
Dr. Brantly’s first test was also negative, but they kept him under quarantine, and the 72 hour test was positive. I have read and heard from other sources that you cannot be sure until 72 hours has passed.
They tested his blood to see if he has the virus. He does not. What he probably has is the wonderful round of the common cold or maybe even the enter virus going around.
Since he does not have any ebola in his body why should he take up hospital space???
citations please for ‘rapidly mutating’ virus
Some have to quarantined and others simply ‘tested’. I don’t get it. Can someone help me understand?
Very happy for this guy!
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