Posted on 10/10/2014 1:37:20 AM PDT by GeneralSmedleyButler
Edited on 10/10/2014 1:37:47 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Health workers wearing protective equipment stand at the Island Clinic in Monrovia, where patients are treated for Ebola .
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia said it was checking for the Ebola virus in a British man who died within hours of being admitted to hospital in the capital Skopje on Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The Obama regime has repeatedly declared that individuals suspected of having ebola did not have it despite the fact that they could not possibly test for the virus accurately at the time of their announcements.
The CDC says that it's necessary to wait three days after the first symptoms before the PCR ebola test can give an accurate result.
The CDC website notes:
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/interim-guidance-specimen-collection-submission-patients-suspected-infection-ebola.html
“Ebola virus is detected in blood only after the onset of symptoms, usually fever. It may take up to 3 days after symptoms appear for the virus to reach detectable levels. Virus is generally detectable by real-time RT-PCR from 3-10 days after symptoms appear.”
“Specimens ideally should be taken when a symptomatic patient reports to a healthcare facility and is suspected of having an Ebola exposure. However, if the onset of symptoms is (less than) 3 days, a later specimen may be needed to completely rule-out Ebola virus, if the first specimen tests negative.”
It would be curious to know what this guy was doing the two or three weeks prior to 2 Oct. My guess is that he travels a good bit, and he was somewhere in central Africa.
As for this getting out of control in Macedonia? Figure at least a dozen folks showing symptoms within ten days. Figure at least sixty people showing symptoms within thirty days. Figure at least two-hundred people showing symptoms within forty-five days.
From a man-hour prospective....work basically comes to an effective end within the commerce world of Macedonia by March. No food moves....no gas movement...no banking. If you don’t ban flights, quarantine people, and grasp the man-hour implications of each single episode....it’s a spiral.
The Macedonians let this man die. They are obviously racist. s/
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Pay attention to the first post.
Mrs Spokeshave was listening to a web broadcast earlier this evening from Athens Greece news station.....mentioned that two British citizens were under observation in Albania for possible Ebola.
Yet that Liberian guy who flew into Newark with Ebola-like symptoms last Saturday was cleared within a few hours? There are so many apparent inconsistencies among the various claims and reports.
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...
He was probably cleared on the basis of his medical history, lack of potential exposure, and results of lab tests.
I am really curious about this man.
There are several other hemorrhagic fevers—even measles is sometimes a hemorrhagic fever.
He could have had dengue hemorrhagic fever. Dengue is transmitted by mosquitoes, and is found in parts of Europe.
I hope obama visits the hotel in Macedonia . He needs another vacation.
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