[Cincinatus' Wife]

Classmates of possibly Ebola-exposed students wary at four Dallas schools "............The five children have not shown symptoms of the virus, which has [up to] a 21-day incubation period. They were in school Monday and Tuesday but will be kept out of class for three weeks as a precaution, Dallas County health officials said.

The students, who were not named, attend Conrad High School, Tasby Middle School, and Hotchkiss and Rogers elementary schools.

Superintendent Mike Miles said additional health professionals were assigned to those schools. And extra custodial staff will thoroughly clean the buildings each evening. A fifth school, Lowe Elementary, will also receive more resources because it is connected to Tasby.

Those campuses serve families in the Vickery Meadow area of northeast Dallas, where immigrants from around the world have settled in clusters of older apartment complexes.

The five children live in the apartment where a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, was staying after he arrived Sept. 20 in Dallas. He was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian of Dallas on Sunday, and officials confirmed Tuesday that he has Ebola.

That news spurred some parents to pull their children out of school Wednesday, while others said they were considering keeping their kids home.

Mayra Duarte picked up her first-grader at Hotchkiss after learning about the Ebola connection on the Dallas ISD Facebook page..........

Dallas hospital knew man had been to West Africa but didn’t isolate him for Ebola testing "Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital officials apparently failed to follow federal guidelines in their initial handling of the man now known to have the deadly Ebola virus by sending him home after he told a nurse he had recently traveled from West Africa.

Thomas Eric Duncan of Liberia showed up at the Dallas emergency room about 10 p.m. Sept. 25 with what hospital officials said was fever and abdominal pain. A nurse questioned him about travel, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocol recommends, and Duncan acknowledged he had been in Liberia just seven days earlier, hospital officials said.

But key members of the medical team were not alerted to his travel history. And instead of being placed in an isolation unit and tested for Ebola, as the guidelines issued two months ago suggest, he was given antibiotics and sent home, they said.

“He volunteered that he had traveled to Africa,” Dr. Mark Lester, the southeast clinical leader for Texas Health Resources, the hospital’s parent company, told reporters Wednesday. “That information was not fully disseminated.”

Lester declined to elaborate on who was responsible for the miscommunication or how many employees were involved. By the time Duncan returned to the hospital by ambulance two days later, his condition had worsened, officials said. He was immediately placed in an isolation room and tested for Ebola.

The failure to isolate Duncan after his symptoms emerged meant that he could have exposed others for days to the deadly virus. Public health officials stressed Wednesday that they were monitoring everyone who had been in contact with Duncan since he began showing symptoms Sept. 24. It can take 21 days for a patient to become sick....."

U.S. Ebola patient helped carry convulsing pregnant woman who later died of the virus four days before he flew from Liberia to Texas. Four more of his neighbors died too: So how was he even allowed to step on a plane?

[MarMema]

I know for a fact that the CDC sent guidelines to every hospital and dr office in the country about questioning past travel of patients.

It is incredible that this was overlooked on this man's first ER visit.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ebola and Chaos Theory ".............Another fatal flaw in our Ebola prevention system is this bizarre belief that people – sometimes, sick, scared, and desperate people – will provide authorities with accurate information about where they’ve been and to whom they’ve been exposed. Blindly relying on information obtained this way introduces countless variables into the equation that could knock any sense of control into a state of chaos.

Sure, ask the questions, but don’t be so gullible as to take all of the answers as gospel.

It is not clear how Patient Zero was screened at the airport. All we know is that he did not have a fever or symptoms when he got on the planes and was therefore not contagious, thus, no one in the airports in Liberia, Brussels, or Texas need worry. And I have a bridge to sell you…

But what if he took a Tylenol before he went to the airport for a headache or an aching knee? That would have masked a fever, so it is possible he (or someone else on the plane who was exposed and took a Tylenol) was actually symptomatic and contagious. One sneeze into your row-mate’s Pepsi, and the virus is on the prowl, with a chaotic chain of events unleashed......."

[MarMema]

But key members of the medical team were not alerted to his travel history.

BS. It is the job of the attending physician to get a complete history.

[Born to Conserve]

The bastard knew he had it.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Rank incompetence and selfishness all around. Government officials all the way down to this man need to be punished. I don’t care if he is sick. What he has done is wrong and the officials who didn’t protect the public are wrong. What if it were YOUR loved one who dies from this stupidity?

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Oldeconomybuyer]

4-5 days prior to departing Liberia, Mr. Duncan had direct contact with a 19-year old pregnant girl “convulsing” in the final stages of Ebola. He rode in a taxi with her in the backseat, then helped carry her home when the Ebola clinic was full. She died of Ebola hours later.

He either came to the US in hopes of better medical care, or to purposely transport Ebola to Texas. This is no accident.

source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3210086/posts

[Savage Beast]

If Americans think Ebola is scary—just wait until smallpox makes its reappearance—in an unvaccinated population!

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[jetson]

The CDC should strap trackers on every ankle of every person that had contact with Duncan as well as quarantine.