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Texas health care worker tests positive for Ebola
CNN ^ | Sun October 12, 2014 | By Joe Sutton, CNN

Posted on 10/12/2014 2:43:21 AM PDT by radu

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To: dforest; surrey
Yes, that is the stoopid Judge. Why is he not in quarantine?

Yep....as a trained intel professional, it is my professional opinion that the Judge is scared shitless...and I'm very surprised if a further shot would have shown one of his hands trembling.

161 posted on 10/12/2014 6:50:09 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Sacajaweau
there is no more zmapp...and if there is...it’s being saved for Obama etc.

If I were Zmapp maker, I would specifically EXCLUDE treatment for Obama. I would make it publically known that his company will withold ZMAPP to the POTUS because he is the cause of this and that I would gladly give it to innocent victims such as this healthcare worker or Duncan's family, or the Spanish nurse.

162 posted on 10/12/2014 6:52:34 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: DCBryan1

I saw an old article. This company was given money way back when. There was a female scientist who had visited the Whitehouse and was at Obama’s side. This lab is connected.


163 posted on 10/12/2014 6:56:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau
there is no more zmapp...and if there is...it’s being saved for Obama etc.

I thought I read that the Spanish nurse received a Zmapp dose, as well as blood from Ebola survivors.

Production capabilities have not been ramped up at this point. Zmapp production has been described as something like one lab tech with a pipette.

(Ebola drug and vaccine production seems to be another place where the Zero administration is doing close to zero, except throwing up more roadblocks for those who want to control the disease. Who is going to pay for the drug and vaccine production ramp up? ("If you got a business — you didn't build that.") Who is going to assume the risk if it doesn't work?)

164 posted on 10/12/2014 7:03:36 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: varina davis
The immune systems of victims probably has a lot to do with who is most susceptible to the virus.

Like AIDS and other viruses that attack the immune system, there is a nonlinear effect. The immune response is how the virus gets into the blood stream. A weak immune system is susceptible but a stronger immune system might actually let the virus spread more quickly.

165 posted on 10/12/2014 7:05:39 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: cynwoody
But the most likely hypothesis for humans is that the volume of the exposure matters. I.e., it's more dangerous to handle an almost-dead patient than to be in the same apartment with a new patient in the process of getting sick enough to be hospitalized

True, but it only takes a couple of viruses to get infected. The biggest risk is getting exposed to a late stage patient as you said, but before that point it will depend on cleanliness, luck, etc. In the case of Youngor Jallah, she did a lot of disinfecting. Perhaps Duncan washed his hands also after he used the bathroom.

166 posted on 10/12/2014 7:08:57 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: antidisestablishment
"Cytokine Storm"

That's true in the literature I read:

Meanwhile, the immune system is going haywire (Fig 21). Interferons are not being made because VP35 interferes with nearly every step in the process [2]. White blood cells are trapped inside the circulatory system because sGP limits their movement [49]. Macrophages and monocytes are releasing a cocktail of proinflammatory cytokines that destroy the vascular endothelium, but also activate the coagulation cascade. This puts your body in a paradoxical state in which you can die of hypovolemic shock from massive hemorrhage, or from catastrophic thrombosis, the formation of blood clots around the body [17]

From https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Infection_Mechanism_of_Genus_Ebolavirus

It may be a little more subtle than "healthy people die". Healthy people may not get infected or may successfully fight off the infection. Also I'm pretty sure though that unhealthy people will die from Ebola as well without the Cytokine Storm, just from the virus itself as it takes over the epithelial cells destroying the blood vessels and the liver.

167 posted on 10/12/2014 7:24:04 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: radu

These hospital and medical facilities are concentrating centers for the virus and are obviuosly dangerous for health care workers and patients. I know that they isolate the Ebola patients once suspected, but when patients enter the ER and clinic with non specific symptoms, they will need to be isolated ASAP, and because early symptoms are non-specific, this will not be possible to know who has or doesn’t have Ebola. In fact what could happen is one Ebola suspected pateint is kept in the same area as several Flu patents, and more patients become infected with Ebola.
Health care workers are going to call in sick in droves when Flu season hits. At this point, it would be advisable to avoid hospitals that treat Ebola.


168 posted on 10/12/2014 7:25:23 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: Sooth2222
I thought I read that the Spanish nurse received a Zmapp dose, as well as blood from Ebola survivors

That was the Spanish priest she treated. He died anyway.

169 posted on 10/12/2014 7:27:50 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: radu

This new patient lives in the “M” streets of Dallas.........a fairly wealthy area. She presented to the hospital Friday and was admitted. I saw/heard nothing here in the Dallas area yesterday about a potential new patient. A reverse 911!call went out to everyone w/in 4 blocks of the patient’s apartment and the common areas of that complex were decontaminated. She was NOT included in the 48 on the original watch list......


170 posted on 10/12/2014 7:29:03 AM PDT by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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To: Sooth2222

http://news.yahoo.com/u-government-agency-accelerate-development-mapps-ebola-treatment-180931794.html


171 posted on 10/12/2014 7:37:40 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: F15Eagle

If you are going to post something like that, give us fair warning will ya?


172 posted on 10/12/2014 8:00:57 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Wonder what Slick and Cankles did with the rent a dogs now they have grandbaby for optics?)
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To: samtheman

Yes, all civilizations fall. Ours won’t be any different. We just had more opportunity to be successful than the rest but “fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son.”-—Dean Wormer

America is just an “Animal House”

The ending will be the same, running amok, looting,fire, explosion, chaos, tumult and Kevin Bacon screaming remain calm, all is well.


173 posted on 10/12/2014 8:22:35 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Wonder what Slick and Cankles did with the rent a dogs now they have grandbaby for optics?)
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To: palmer; Sooth2222

The Spanish nurse received a new drug that was basically a copy of or very similar to ZMapp.


174 posted on 10/12/2014 9:02:38 AM PDT by livius
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To: ALASKA

“M” Streets of Dallas”

Greenland Hills?


175 posted on 10/12/2014 9:11:48 AM PDT by angelsonmyside
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To: BunnySlippers
"Additional thought: this guy is white. What repercussions if he survives and Duncan did not?"

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Dallas patient's family is really throwing the race card, aren't they...

How about "black" West Africans infecting "whites" in US.

Jesse Jackson only fistbumped the family - where was the big ol' Jackson hug?!

His race baiting in a disease all by itself.

176 posted on 10/12/2014 10:48:27 AM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: BobL

I just ordered a UV water filter and a bunch of food bars...so as not to be one of those 320 million. But as I will be living in suburbia as of next week (now I live in the city, and I’m outta here), I’ll need to get a gun to protect them from all the non-planners!


177 posted on 10/12/2014 10:56:49 AM PDT by alphadoggie
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