Posted on 10/01/2014 8:28:24 AM PDT by george76
DALLAS — Due to close contact with a patient diagnosed with the Ebola virus, a second person is under the close monitoring of health officials as a possible second patient, said the director of Dallas County's health department Wednesday morning in an interview with WFAA.
Zachary Thompson, the director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, says all those who've been in close contact with the diagnosed patient are being monitored as a precaution. However, Thompson pointed to one person in particular as a potential second case.
"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,"
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The patient left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in Dallas to visit relatives the following day, said CDC director Tom Frieden. On September 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital.
"I have no doubt that we'll stop this in its tracks in the U.S.," Frieden said. "But I also have no doubt that — as long as the outbreak continues in Africa — we need to be on our guard."
Local health officials say the patient was in contact with several children before he was hospitalized. Thompson says each of those children have been kept home and are under precautionary monitoring.
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The three paramedics who transported the patient are temporarily off duty and among those under observation.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...
“All those who’ve been in close contact?” How do they know they have “all” of them? And what about ALL the people the ALL came in contact with and so forth?
That’s a good video.
The situation is more dire than I thought.
The CDC has spoken about the 1st case. They have not named others.
“It is simply too dangerous for people to be standing in line to vote.” - Barrack Hussein Obama
Watch for this statement a few days before the election.
Isn’t it sad that NOTHING should be discounted.
Outrage creep.
Oh, that's good. So Canada and Mexico can breathe sighs of relief.
It’s striking that CDC director Tom Frieden now says “I have no doubt that we’ll stop this in its tracks in the U.S.” while not long ago he was saying “People living in the United States have almost no chance of getting Ebola.”
http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/player.asp?f=8633481
For those still wondering what the “October Surprise” will be leading into this November’s elections, I give you Ebola in the US.
So what happened between those two statements? We flew people in from the hot zone.
Recklessness does not begin to describe how this has been handled.
"Quarantining" is a precaution for a deadly contagious disease. "
Monitoring" a likely carrier as they go about their normal daily activity, in a country free from that disease, is NOT CAUTION. It is a reckless politically correct whitewash for inaction.
Ebola? Obama’s fault so we name it Obola.
1 to 2 to 4 to 8 to 16 to 32 to 64 to 128 to 256, etc.
Ping.
I wouldn’t put it past the demon.
And here we go . . .
PING!
Plenty of time till elections.
A “Runner” or two and Bingo. And we do know they love to run.
http://www.nairaland.com/206151/top-10-areas-usa-most
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