Posted on 10/02/2014 5:29:40 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
An American physician who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone was transferred to a National Institutes of Health facility in Bethesda from an aircraft that landed Sunday at Frederick Municipal Airport.
The patient, who was not identified, landed at about 3:30 p.m. in Frederick and arrived at the NIH Clinical Center at about 4 p.m., John Burklow, associate director for communications and public liaison for NIH, said in a news release.
The small gray jet, a Gulfstream III operated by Phoenix Air Group of Cartersville, Georgia, was in Senegal on Saturday and arrived in Frederick after a stop in Bermuda.
Shaun Porter, of Frederick, was at the airport on Sunday and was met by a plainclothes security officer who told him he couldn’t park too close to the airfield. Porter said he parked at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association parking lot and observed the jet on the runway. A person in a white protective suit emerged.
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If I understand this virus, it takes approximately 21-days to full enbola; there is window where it is contagious, somewhere during days 17-21. However, by the time you are “known” to have it at day 17, you have a 50-70% chance of dying. So what day, if any, was this doctor’s incubation period. We know nothing about carriers (those who contract but do not catch) of the virus - can they also spread the disease while appearing normal. It will be when those working on this mini-plague find the carriers that they will find the cure. Until then, imagine the rest of the plane load of people having been exposed and unaware....
You are wrong.
WHO says:
Symptoms of Ebola virus disease. The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days. Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. First symptoms are the sudden onset of fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat.
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CDC says:
Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.
Recovery from Ebola depends on the patient’s immune response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html
Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus. However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to 3 months. People who recover from Ebola are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms for 3 months.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html
3,2,1, waiting for all the freepers who say you’re not walking by the time you are able to spread the contagion to explain why this person is in a containment suit.
Is this the same doctor they have been talking about? I thought the one that was mentioned at NIH had been there since last week. Does anyone know?
I may be wrong, but it appears that this is yet another doctor, who this time had been working in Sierra Leone.
Then what happened to that other doctor? They are not saying anything about him. He’s dead I bet.
OK, Freepers, this Gulfstream III operated by Phoenix Air Group of Cartersville is specially equipped for transporting Ebola and other dangerous patients.
Aeromedical Biological Containment System
This Aeromedical Biological Containment System (foreground) was used to train personnel for the transport of Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol from Africa. It sits in front of the actual Gulfstream G3 jet used to make the transport. The actual containment units used to transfer the Ebola patients have already been incinerated in accord with CDC guidelines. "
The terrorists have won. Hang up the "Mission Accomplished" banner.
Red herring. The actual fact is that the virus has to spread in the victim's body before they can spread it to other people. That means there is a relatively short period, a day to a week, where you are walking, but feeling feverish and spreading viruses, to when you vomit blood and die. People without the fever will not have enough viruses body-wide to be very contagious. It is possible of course, just not likely. The reason is that the virus has to replicate at the initial point of infection before spreading further piggybacking on the immune system.
.... ping
following the WHO/CDC contradictory statements and dated protocols (written before this epidemic and being rewritten everyday) about how you “can’t” catch ebola is why over 200 healthcare workers are dead
These agencies say one thing to the public but they sure act another way when they even suspect one of their own has been “exposed”
To the CDC it was not necessary to contact the airline passengers the idiot Liberian Typhoid Mary flew with because he “wasn’t symptomatic”. And they know this how? Because he passed a 3rd world Liberian thermometer scan at the airport (ever give an 3rd worlder a $50 bribe to let you through a line>?) ... and because he showed up at a US hospital 5 days later .... as if that is when he first showed (or felt) symptoms.
Until an Ebola Mary is found running around healthy but spreading the joy.
Seriously, it is time to think through some of the crap being fed us to keep panic from ensuing, which I understand considering how low the chance is of an Ebola Mary but we repeat this stuff like it is rote and do not question and that in itself leaves us blind.
This is a different Dr. Also, the Cartersville air ambulance folks have flown dozens of people here for the US gov’t from the Ebola zone.
Thanks. We are not being told the truth by our govnmt again!
Dozens? You mean in normal flights, or in the isolation chamber?
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