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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas monitoring patient for possible Ebola
Dallas Morning News ^ | 9/29/14 | Claire Cardona

Posted on 09/29/2014 7:54:52 PM PDT by Nachum

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. The hospital is following Centers for Disease Control and Texas Department of Heath recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors, White said. In August, Dr. Kent Brantly, a Fort Worth doctor who contracted Ebola while working as an aid worker in Africa,

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To: bigredkitty1

But, but the TSA was supposed to save us from Ebola getting off planes!!!! The government promised!!!

The hospital has an isolation room but it is not one of the four nationwide for Ebola. Check your mail in a few minutes.


21 posted on 09/29/2014 9:26:21 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Grams A

The bigger question is why hasn’t ALL travel been halted going into and coming out of the southern two-thirds of Africa? This disease has the potential to wipe out vast swathes of the global population and people can still stroll into these hot zones? Where is the intelligence or logic in that?


22 posted on 09/29/2014 9:35:06 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: bgill

No, it is not. Also, their infection control has been alleged to be suspect in years past. Staph infections ran rampant. This, however, was a decade or so ago. Things may have changed for the better.


23 posted on 09/29/2014 9:39:41 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: Oliviaforever

Logistical issues? What kind of logistical solution do you propose if this turns out to be a real infection?

Legal issues? If this turns out to be a real infection, I propose the pertinent lawyers be recruited to take care of this poor soul. Unless they have a chit showing 24 hrs of bedpan duty, they can stuff their paperwork.


24 posted on 09/29/2014 9:57:21 PM PDT by RedElement
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To: Nachum

These clowns are going to keep on screwing around until Ebola is raising havoc in America. A lot of Americans are going to die because of this administration’s stupidity and incompetence.


25 posted on 09/29/2014 10:01:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
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To: greeneyes

“Surely you jest. This is the One’s Regime. Stroke of the pen - law of the land.”

If any president would impose via Executive Order, a massive quarantine, it would be Obama and I am sure many would advocate a quarantine of all who may have been to Africa.


26 posted on 09/29/2014 11:11:06 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: bigredkitty1

I trust that sanitation conditions are better in the United States than they are in backwater Liberian villages.

I will worry about getting hit by meteorite more than catching Ebola.


27 posted on 09/29/2014 11:14:40 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

Sory...but ....I req. cleaning your hands if you handle money....at all...in fact paper money may have to be eliminated soon....maybe it will be banned.


28 posted on 09/29/2014 11:20:07 PM PDT by therapsida (tThats a group now?)
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To: bigredkitty1
The bigger question is why hasn’t ALL travel been halted going into and coming out of the southern two-thirds of Africa?

Isolate this brutal disease to the African continent?

That makes way too much sense.

Besides, the airlines, travel agencies, investors etc, might lose some money.

And I am confident the government has a few other motives of it's own.

29 posted on 09/29/2014 11:23:38 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Oliviaforever
Sanitation doesn't really have much to do with it (except in the case of handling corpses or their personal effects). If you are in close contact with a symptomatic individual -- maybe even a little before symptoms appear -- and ingest a cough or sneeze droplet, or touch a surface just touched by an infected party with dirty fingertips -- you are as good as infected. Only takes five or so virus particles, an incredibly small amount of material.

No reason any of this can't happen here. It happens everyday with countless other viruses. Ebola is much harder to catch than something like a cold (including EV-D68) or the flu, but if you come into contact with fluid from an infected individual you probably will catch it.

The thing that is better here is supportive care, but facilities would be quickly overwhelmed doing that for more than a 5-10 patients per hospital and non-specialist facilities would be expected to spread the disease further.

30 posted on 09/29/2014 11:28:57 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: therapsida

cleaning your hands? really??

Ebola is a blood virus spread thru skin contact with any infected bodily fluid. any skin contact. if you touched infected fluids, such as shaking a hand during the summer, sitting in a taxi seat or movie theater, then you’d already be infected. no amount of washing will improve your 50-70% chance of mortality


31 posted on 09/29/2014 11:29:18 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten

Oh excuse ME sten.....

Leta see....no door handles...no taxis....no gass pump...no toilet seat....

Golly sten...where do YOU live?...got an island for your family?

Because I live in a semi functional society still...and IMO some steps can be taken to reduce chance of infection....

....continuous hand cleaning may save lives.

P.S....Some strains can live for weeks ...DRYED....in a letter or on MONEY.....virus capsulates.

Good time to have 6mo. food in your hs.for sure.

If you are so very bright....tell me what would you use to disinfect surfaces?....spray bleach?

Hey I have an Idea!...Lets use this forum to Help other people!....maybe disseminate information....!He lets share knowledge !

It might be more fun than randomly snotting on each other for tiny ego reinforcement .

What say You captain?


32 posted on 09/30/2014 12:11:44 AM PDT by therapsida (tThats a group now?)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

Thanks, Jane Long!

33 posted on 09/30/2014 12:29:48 AM 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: Kartographer

Man, when you get a hangnail, you don’t mess around! (8^D)


34 posted on 09/30/2014 12:31:28 AM 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: Veggie Todd

I read it that way at first too. (Paragraphs our are friends). But the Fort Worth doctor is another person than the patient currently being tested.


35 posted on 09/30/2014 12:37:52 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: therapsida
Hand cleaning is better than nothing, use bleach.

I have a feeling we are going to see wearing gloves back in style again, if for no other reason than to hide the nitrile ones underneath.

Best bet, though, since transdermal infection is not guaranteed, is to avoid touching common contact surfaces (the ones everyone touches).

Ladies just might want a feller to open a door for them again, and a doorman might come back into vogue (to avoid contamination and transmission).

If you must touch such surfaces, NEVER touch a mucous membrane, rub your eyes, eat, etc., before you have throughly washed your hands.

36 posted on 09/30/2014 12:38:46 AM 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: therapsida
Really? Was that necessary? I think you are on the same side.

I am just recovering from EV68. It was a surprised with precautions as I was gaming to conduct my routine daily chores. I got it anyways. This was western PA.

What does that say about Ebola?

Check out the Ebola Surveillance Thread and the PANDEMIC FLU INFORMATION FORUM.

This is too serious to turn into an unnecessary flame war. Really.
37 posted on 09/30/2014 12:45:37 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Nachum

Good thing we are bringing them back to the USA.


38 posted on 09/30/2014 1:20:16 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Nachum
In 2008, there was an imported case of Marburg in the United States. Marburg is almost identical to Ebola, except that the fatality range is higher, about 83-90% (by contrast, Ebola is 45-90%).

The woman had traveled in Uganda and visited a bat cave while there. She fell ill and was admitted to a hospital. There, she received surgery, recovered, and was released without ever being diagnosed. Six months later, she requested repeat testing for Marburg since she had heard of a Dutch tourist who visited the same cave and developed a fatal case of Marburg. That testing revealed that she had, in fact, had Marburg. Contact tracing revealed that she had not caused a single secondary infection.

I fully expect that any cases of Ebola that manage to enter the US will have a similar outcome. The patient may or may not survive, but the disease is highly unlikely to spread any further than the affected patient.

Imported Case of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever --- Colorado, 2008

I'm glad that diseases like Ebola and Marburg aren't very contagious.

39 posted on 09/30/2014 3:28:19 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Oliviaforever
I can't recall exactly what he signed awhile back, but it sounded like a preparation for Ebola quarantine, detention etc.
40 posted on 09/30/2014 4:37:37 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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