CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102037055 ^

[Crazieman]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States.

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[Diogenesis]

Like the beheadings, like the entry issues,
the EXEMPT and the Moslem pRes_ _ent WILL ONLY CARE
when this involves them.

[Mom MD]

And everyone in the ED on the 24th

[sakic]

If he was here to spread the virus, the last place he would go would be the hospital.

[tomkat]

1. Tom Friedman: not airborne

Bullshiite

/.02

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Want to get my comment in before the comments go to Ebola like numbers.

[Texas Songwriter]

Consider the following. Instead of traveling to Dallas and going to a 700 bed hospital, he goes to a 60 bed hospital staffed by mostly GP's. The patient, vomiting and with diarrhea, walks in to the ER, or perhaps even the doctors busy office. They order anti emetics and antidiarrheals. Two days later he is no better and goes back to the GP. The doctor says, "Well, maybe we need to admit you and correct the fluid-electrolyte problems. So...he goes in to the hospital through admission department, a nurse puts him in a wheel chair, puts an ID bracelet on him, puts him in a gown, rolls him down the hall to a room with a roommate, starts an IV. The phlebotomist comes and draws blood, and the patient is scheduled to move to the ER for a routine chest EKG technician comes and puts electrodes on the sweaty chest of the patient and runs an EKG. The patient becomes more nauseated and the nurse is ordered to put an NG tube down. It is placed on suction. Those fluids are checked each shift in order to calculate fluid loss. With the NG tube, IV tubes in place the patient uses a urinal and those fluids are likewise checked and the nurse pours them (after measuring the volume) down the toilet. The next day the patient is no better so emperic antibiotics are begun. The antibiotic is run in over a period of 1 hour and then separated from the IV fluid tube. That will be discarded. The patient is coughing and hacking in the same room with his room-mate ( and his visitors). The gown is removed daily and sent to the laundry service and thus the people who work there. He is tried on clear liquids. His jello is not kept down. So the dishes are removed and sent to be washed.

I could go on, but ........ you get the picture.

How many people will be significantly exposed? Yet the CDC attempts to minimize the risk.

Now I will tell you a story. In the early 80's I was in training in surgery when AIDS came to our prominence. We were told it was limited to IV drug users and homosexuals. Initially, we were told heterosexuals were excluded. Then about 2 years we leafed it could be transmitted by heterosexual transmission. The question came, "could a baby contract AIDS by imbibing breast milk. The answer from the CDC was, Absolutely Not! Well, we found out different about a year later. What I am saying is, 'we do not know, what we do not know'. What perplexes me is the cavalear nature of the CDC dismissing so many concerns of possibilities that we might later learn are true, but are now being dismissed. How did the Obstetrician from Iberia contract Ebola? We simply do not know. Lets get the answer before we dismiss so many possibilities.

[RetiredArmy]

Let me guess, brought in by someone coming across the southern border? Can I bet the farm on it right now?

[DouglasKC]

So this means when he went to the medical care facility on the 26th he exposed EVERYONE that was at that facility

Yah think about that...how long was in the waiting room coughing, sneezing, sweating, etc.? Who examined him? What did he touch?

[Shelayne]

I know. I want to know if he was sitting in an emergency room with symptoms on the 26th, before they sent him home.

[matginzac]

Would love to know his/her race.....

[palmer]

Not true. The patient becomes immune if he survives and can kill (easily) with his semen.

[Mom MD]

At this point? likely dead...

[KGeorge]

:( No kidding. I’d be afraid to even mail order. Not just shopping, either. EVerything. (Our grocery stores in my neighborhood have more than a few Somalis)
This was completely avoidable. I feel like we’re watching a slow motion bioweapon attack. From our own government!

[Mears]

I think there have been other beheadings by psychos in the USA.

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[bgill]

I would like to know if the carrier is moslem.

Could be the reason they won't ID him. One of obola's muzzy bros here on a visa.

[dragnet2]

This was predictable and predicted and as soon as the next case pops up the entire administration needs to be arrested and tried for threatening the population of the United States.

Gets my vote....Absolutely....They've been looting and putting the tax payers and our country at total risk for years now.

It's just reckless government sponsored destruction of this country at all levels..As they line their own pockets and represent only themselves and their own security.

[machogirl]

Of course the MSM will be towing the line. Barry did promise change and transformation. He’s been successful.

[Sequoyah101]

The only time this administration lies is when their lips move.

Have you ever trusted them at all?

If you have, don’t keep being foolish.

[dforest]

The CDC is not the one to order the stoppage of flights. The President is.

[miserare]

Agree.