Posted on 10/01/2014 4:49:10 AM PDT by Dallas59
Just heard on the radio (WBAP) that a family member of the man with Ebola is now sick with the stuff.
DALLAS — Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first patient to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County’s health department said Wednesday.
All who have been in close contact with the diagnosed patient are being monitored as a precaution, said Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.
“Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: The fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient,” he said. “So this is real. There should be a concern, but it’s contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment.”
Thanks...just found the same info via a link to a post at Red State. In the same article, Eric Erickson says he was contacted by someone who claims to work at CDC and sounded credible, i.e., he provided details on the Dallas case before they became public.
Just skimmed the article, but info from the CDC file (provided to Erickson) doesn’t match the timeline provided to the public. In fact, there is a four-day gap between the time he arrived in Dallas and made the first trip to the emergency room, and a two-day gap between that trip and his second visit to the ER.
No one is saying where he was during those periods. Could have exposed literally hundreds of people, depending on his activities during that time.
Someone else reported that a “planeload” of specialists from the CDC arrived in Dallas last night, and many of them are medical investigators, trying to determine who the Ebola patient(s) might have come in contact with.
Patient Zero has arrived and this thing could spread very quickly.
Watching CBS last night, I saw their “medical correspondent,” Dr John LaPook, do his best “all is well” report, trying to reassure the public that the medical authorities have the matter in hand. Naturally, the good doctor didn’t mention Patient Zero’s stopover at Dulles, and the inconsistencies in the reported timeline between arrival and ER visits.
The incubation period for Ebola can be anywhere from a few days to up to 21 days.
“Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents, the fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient,” he said in a Wednesday interview with WFAA. “... So this is real. There should be a concern, but it’s contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment.”
In the past 2 months I had to take my elderly mother to the ER twice. Symptoms were vomiting, bloody diarrhea, fever, weakness and dehydration.
In 2 ER visits, she spent a total of 11 hours waiting with no isolation from other patients, and staff wasn’t even wearing gloves.
This is how the ER visits for this guy went, or “there ain’t no cows in Texas”.
And before that, how many tomatoes did she squeeze and cantaloupes did she sniff at the grocery and put back for the next person to put in their basket? Did she put her poopy diaper kid in the basket and will a positive test come back on him? This is all obola’s fault.
Okay.
Let us take a look at the CDC’s timeline for Ebola.
Patient Zero left Liberia on the 20th. He went to the hospital on either the 28th or 29th. He was displaying Ebola symptoms.
Patient Two went to the hospital with symptoms yesterday, the 30th. That means Patient two was infected no later than the 27th. This means Patient Two showed up at the hospital with the ability to infect others.
The question now is: when did Patient Two develop the ability to infect others? If Patient Two was exposed prior to the 27th (very likely) then there is a new thread of infection out there.
Why am I assuming the latest arrival at the hospital is Patient Two? Two reasons. First, the lack of unique early Ebola symptoms. We don’t know if a person has Ebola until they are able to spread Ebola. Second, a mortality rate of between 50 and 70%. BTW - the hospital staff is reacting in the same manner - assuming that this latest arrival is truly Patient two.
IMHO We can expect to see Patient Three before the end of the week. If so, things can turn really nasty very quickly.
I’d stay in bed but I had to get up to grind the coffee beans. Better to face adversity after having my morning coffee.
Patient 3 will be someone totally unknown to patient 1 or his family, just wait and see.
Aren’t you glad NY is not your home? Don’t worry NY, I know nothing.
No that is wrong dates.
In these days of indigestion it is oftentimes a question
As to what to eat and what to leave alone.
Every microbe and bacillus has a different way to kill us
And in time they all will claim us for their own.
There are germs of every kind in every food that you can find
In the market or upon the bill of fare.
Drinking water’s just as risky as the so-called “deadly” whiskey
And it’s often a mistake to breathe the air.
For some little bug is going to get you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Then he’ll send for his bug friends
And all your troubles they will end,
For some little bug is gonna find you someday.
The inviting green cucumber, it’s most everybody’s number
While sweetcorn has a system of its own.
Now, that radish seems nutritious, but its behavior is quite vicious
And a doctor will be coming to your home.
Eating lobster, cooked or plain, is only flirting with ptomaine,
While an oyster often has a lot to say.
And those clams we eat in chowder make the angels sing the louder
For they know that they ‘II be with us right away.
For some little bug is going to get you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Eat that juicy sliced pineapple,
And the sexton dusts the chapel
Oh, yes, some little bug is gonna find you someday.
When cold storage vaults I visit, I can only say, “What is it
Makes poor mortals fill their systems with such stuff?”
Now, at breakfast prunes are dandy if a stomach pump is handy
And a doctor can be called quite soon enough.
Eat a plate of fine pig’s knuckles and the headstone cutter chuckles
While the gravedigger makes a mark upon his cuff.
And eat that lovely red bologna and you ‘II wear a wood kimona
As your relatives start packing up your stuff.
For some little bug is going to get you someday.
Some little bug will creep behind you someday.
Then he’ll send for his bug friends
And all your troubles they will end,
For some little bug is gonna find you someday.
Those crazy foods they fix, they’ll float us ‘cross the River Styx
Or start us climbing up the Milky Way.
And those meals they serve in courses mean a hearse and two black horses
So before meals, some people always pray.
Luscious grapes breed appendicitis, while their juice leads to gastritis
So there’s only death to greet us either way.
Fried liver’s nice, but mind you, friends will follow close behind you
And the papers, they will have nice things to say.
I'll be right over.
http://www.avianflutalk.com/possible-second-patient_topic32235.html
and families send their kids to school
This patient 0 had “contact with children” while he was sick
and maybe that is why the Dallas Public Schools are now involved
and last time I was in the ER, no one in the waiting room was wearing protective gear just in case someone with ebola had used the toilet or wiped his sweat or nose or mouth and then touched anything they touched like a seat, armrest, magazine, tissue, money in the cafeteria
He arrived in US on the 20th, felt symptoms on 24th, went to hospital on 26th. Sent home. Went back via ambulance on 28th.
LOL ... Thanks, needed a Good Laugh.
it could be someone who touched an infected seat, tray, magazine, toilet, or sink on the airplane
an airline worker who cleaned up his tray cups and napkins and didn’t wear gloves properly
someone who took the same taxi
touched the same money or a product package he touched in a store
Corrections: Case 0 left Liberia the 19th, Arrive Dallas the 20th. Taken to Presby via ambulance on the 26th presenting symptoms, sent home with antibiotics. Goes back on 28th, is finally admitted. Ebola test confirmed yesterday at 3:00pm.
Is it true CDC only recommending contact isolation not droplet precautions?
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