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Man Being Tested At Mount Sinai Hospital For Possible Ebola Virus
CBS New York ^ | 8/4/2014 | Unattributed

Posted on 08/04/2014 2:32:50 PM PDT by mojito

A patient at Mount Sinai Hospital was under treatment Monday afternoon, after being tested after traveling to a country where the Ebola virus is present, the hospital said in a statement.

The man arrived at the East Harlem medical center’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. The man told doctors he had recently traveled to a West African country where Ebola has been reported, the hospital said.

The man has been placed in “strict isolation” and is undergoing various tests to determine the cause of the symptoms, the hospital said.

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21 posted on 08/04/2014 3:12:09 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: mojito

I don’t know why they don’t confine these suspected cases to one or more of those medical ships, just off-shore. That way the people are “home”, but the mainland is protected.


22 posted on 08/04/2014 3:13:22 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: mojito
The man arrived at the East Harlem medical center’s emergency room early Monday morning with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.

How did he arrive while showing symptoms, by subway, by cab? How many hospital workers, other patients, came into contact with him before the isolation?

23 posted on 08/04/2014 3:14:22 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: driftdiver
iI worry about the 10,000 people that flew in from Africa in the last month who weren’t tested.

I worry about those that he flew in with, and everyone that he and they have been in contact with since then. This is probably closer to 100,000 than 10,000. Of course, the same applies to the other 10,000 you mentioned.

Political correctness KILLS. I hope and pray we don't get a massive epidemic of this particular disease, but the very foundation of PC - lies and distortions of the truth, wrapped in nice-sounding words - renders an entire society incapable of rational thought. We will deserve everything we get as a society for electing and re-electing this horse's arse.

25 posted on 08/04/2014 3:15:45 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: mojito

I’m tired of seeing these doctors on TV parading as experts and declaring that there is nothing to be concerned about her because we have a modern hospital system.
How would that hold up in an inner city or congested metro are like DC when they have say 10,000 - 20,000 patients flood in?


26 posted on 08/04/2014 3:20:13 PM PDT by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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To: DTogo
Questions, questions. Rest assured, answers will NOT be forthcoming. From the NYSlimes:

“A hospital spokeswoman, Dorie Klissas, said that to protect the patient’s privacy the hospital was not making public his occupation, which country he had been in, whether he had been exposed to a patient with Ebola there, or whether he had close contacts like family members, friends or co-workers who were also at risk. Ms. Klissas said the patient’s blood was being tested for Ebola, but she declined to say when the test results would be available.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/health/patient-at-mount-sinai-has-ebola-like-symptoms-hospital-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

27 posted on 08/04/2014 3:23:36 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: bill1952

Great points !


28 posted on 08/04/2014 3:25:45 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: odawg

Ya have to remember ....liberal socialist democrats are spitters.......stay safe !


29 posted on 08/04/2014 3:31:26 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: DTogo

That’s what I’d like to know. When did his plane land? Where is the plane now and who has been on the plane? Does he live alone? Is his family quarantined? Did he go to work anywhere?


30 posted on 08/04/2014 3:31:42 PM PDT by Wage Slave
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To: mojito

“patient’s privacy”

There you go, typical liberal bull and why we should be deeply concerned about this growing deadly debacle. A person who may have exposed Ebola to thousands of Americans and they are worried about HIS/HER privacy rights? How about the rights we have to protect ourselves and families?


31 posted on 08/04/2014 3:36:03 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: cardinal4

They are saying he does not have it.

So,he didn’t have it, the woman who basically dropped dead at Gatwick airport didn’t have it.

But I’m starting to think they won’t all not have it.

Look at this guy, he walked into the emergency room, suppose he did have ebola, what would they do? Quarantine everyone who was in the emergency room? What about all the people he passed on the street? Those in his home?


32 posted on 08/04/2014 3:54:19 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: LongWayHome

Oh say, 1989 even


33 posted on 08/04/2014 3:57:15 PM PDT by TBall
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To: mojito

On the CBS evening news a few moments ago, there was a different video with some hired media talking head doctor who was smiling all the way through the report. All warm and fuzzy for the sheeple, don’cha know.


34 posted on 08/04/2014 3:59:56 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill
I posted an article yesterday that false negative readings for Ebola tests were quite common, even in people showing advanced symptoms of the disease.

From the hospital's point of view, this is more of a PR problem than a medical one: Do you really want to announce that a patient in NYC has tested positive?

You'd have a real panic on your hands.

Better to just announce that everything is ok (and my gosh that was awfully quick) and then try to put in place a plan for when you will have to announce a positive case.

Because it will happen. And soon.

35 posted on 08/04/2014 4:09:28 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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36 posted on 08/04/2014 4:11:56 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: TBall

Possible, but the rot has been setting in for a while.


37 posted on 08/04/2014 4:17:17 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: bill1952

It is pretty funny. On any given day ERs have to hold patients for hours and sometimes a day or two waiting for an ICU bed to become available. The number critical care beds for negative pressure strict isolation is negligible.
A couple hundred cases in any one city would overwhelm the resources in a couple of states.


38 posted on 08/04/2014 4:18:11 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Kozak

>> “A couple hundred cases in any one city would overwhelm the resources in a couple of states” <<

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And that appears to be exactly what our Resident is attempting to do.
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39 posted on 08/04/2014 4:21:15 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: LongWayHome

Not to mention that in 1959 there was precious little jet travel.

Pan Am was the first up with the Boeing 707 in fall of 1958, and those flights went to London and Paris, not Africa.

It’s going to be a cruel joke if mass global jet travel proves to be the disease vector that spreads the next great plague.


40 posted on 08/04/2014 4:27:11 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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