Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas monitoring patient possibly infected with Ebola virus

Dallas News ^ | 8:52 pm on September 29, 2014 | Claire Cardona

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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas is carefully evaluating a patient who may have Ebola Virus Disease.

Based on the patient’s symptoms and recent travel history, the patient has been admitted into “strict isolation,” said spokeswoman Candace White in a prepared statement.

Preliminary test results are expected Tuesday.

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We're perfectly safe. Perfectly safe.

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The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

[moovova]

Tick tock tick tock...

[Sequoyah101]

It ain’t the wage gap, it is the value gap.

I think it was the guy at Bell Labs that invented the transistor who gave suicide a shot and failed and didn’t try again. He reasoned he had a 1:6 chance at roulette and still there was the possibility of a misfire.

False positive rate of 100%? Or is it the other way around and there are no misfires on positives?

Dallas is getting close. Wonder who it is and where they had been and why?

[Pelham]

That would be William Shockley.

[DouglasKC]

And what was the patient doing before he got sick...and where was the patient? It’s only a matter of time.

[bgill]

THP is NOT one of the four ebola isolation units. Joe, I don’t see it on your list either.

Local news, KEYE Austin, just now said the patient under “strict isolation” and that’s coming our way.

[Dallas59]

Eating strange stuff will get you some nasty bugs...

[greeneyes]

How would you like to be the admissions person and triage nurse taking the history on this patient?

Please keep us posted.

[bigredkitty1]

According to the local ABC affiliate, the patient had recently returned from traveling to Africa. Oh, look...he/she brought back a souvenir. How thoughtful...NOT!!!

[Sequoyah101]

That would be correct. One and the same.

[bgill]

And how many Americans did he/she share the souvenir with?

How recent is recently returned? Where all has he/she been since coming home? If a health worker, how many patients has he/she treated? How many new African dishes has he/she made and taken to work and had the spouse/kids share samples with? Had sex lately with? Coughed on and kissed the kids (if any) good night? How many restaurant bus boys have handled saliva dishes? Left snotty and tear damped tissues laying around after telling tall tales of the horrors in Africa, etc....

[RightGeek]

[bgill]

http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-sponsored-by-five-119078/texas-doctors-seek-to-calm-ebola-12776246/

Texas Doctors Seek to Calm Ebola Fears - “It’s (CDC preps) just like an insurance policy, just to make sure that if something were to happen, if somebody were to show up at a clinic or hospital, Ebola would be identified quickly and contained quickly, because that’s the best way to stop it.”

Now, see, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s all happy, happy, happy. The government will take care of us.

[bigredkitty1]

Unknown. That is the scariest part.

[Black Agnes]

Nigerian social media has some funny ones in that genre.

[Pelham]

We are perfectly safe... until we aren’t.

Then it will dawn on us just how many people we come into contact with on the average day.

[KeyLargo]

Not to worry.

Obama has assured America that no one here will ever, ever, be at risk from this deadly virus.

"American officials are, however, advising Americans to be alert but to not fret excessively over the outbreak.

“While the Ebola virus could potentially be transported by travelers to another country by a plane ride, according to officials at the CDC, the actual chance of this developing in a serious public health risk to those living in the US is small,” Dr. Robert Glatter wrote in Forbes on Tuesday. "

[Bigg Red]

Praying for the medical people who have to deal with this.