[trebb]

Did this person have contact with Duncan? If this “health care worker” had no contact with Duncan, then how did he/she contract the virus?

Yes - treated Duncan. What's not being reported is how many other patients this worker has been in contact with, not to mention the pyramid of other contacts who also contacted folks who also contacted folks...

They made some mush statement about how "they were aware of a possibility of a second case...doing everything to insure it doesn't spread", etc...

They are giving teeth to the lies that we really have nothing to worry about.

[Jim Noble]

They are giving teeth to the lies that we really have nothing to worry about

Read the first item in the current (as of 8:05 am 10/12/14) CDC FAQ titled "Safe Management of Ebola Patients in US Hospitals". Then read down to #5, the one that has "There are important differences between providing care or performing public health tasks in Africa versus in a U.S. hospital."

Then look at what health care workers in one of the four federally-funded biocontainment units do:

Up until this morning, many hospitals were prepared to take CDC at their word about "routine" personal protective equipment (PPE). I imagine this is no longer the case.

Once 100 hospitals are "ruling out" 100 patients (most of whom will not have Ebola, of course), I imagine the system will grind to a halt.

[Will88]

Yes - treated Duncan. What's not being reported is how many other patients this worker has been in contact with,

That's a question I haven't heard discussed concerning the protocols for hospitals handling ebola patients. Once doctors, nurses and others have ministered to an ebola patient and removed their hazmat suits, do they then resume their normal routines of treating other patients in the hospital?