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Top doc: 'Several people were exposed,' more will be infected by Dallas Ebola case
Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 1st, 2014 | By Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/01/2014 12:53:29 PM PDT by Mariner

A former Food and Drug Administration chief scientist and top infectious disease specialist said that several people were exposed to the Ebola virus by the unidentified patient in Dallas, America’s first case, and it’s likely that many more will be infected.

Dr. Jesse L. Goodman, now a professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, said while the nation shouldn’t panic, it’s best to prepare for the worst.

“It is quite appropriate to be concerned on many fronts,” he said in a statement provided to Secrets. “First, it is a tragedy for the patient and family and, as well, a stress to contacts, health care workers and the community at large. Second, it appears several people were exposed before the individual was placed in isolation, and it is quite possible that one or more of his contacts will be infected,” he added.

What’s more, he conceded that it was “only a matter of time” that the swift-killing African virus arrived in the U.S.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dallas; ebola; obola; texas
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To: Mariner

“....it’s best to prepare for the worst.”

I need a definition of “the worst”.


41 posted on 10/01/2014 1:29:39 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: DoughtyOne

***One thing I don’t like, is being lied to. Start lying to me and your credibility drops to zero.***

I’m sure you know this already, but we are being lied to about so many things, it’ll make your head spin. It usually involves egos. It breaks my heart that PC has been an issue, even with public health, for a very long time.


42 posted on 10/01/2014 1:32:08 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: jocon307
I need a definition of “the worst”.

Each day, compared to the previous, with this government.
43 posted on 10/01/2014 1:36:04 PM PDT by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: FamiliarFace

I’ll respond by saying PC is rampant in and out of government.

The whole Twitter / Facebook / Internet “Swarm” mentality is something we need to be very leery of.

It’s great to be able to connect and communicate, but the infectious rabidity (probably not a word, but keyed off Rabid) that ensues leaves the rational world behind all too often.

It moves the populace too. The whole Obama phenomenon was driven off this in no small measure.


44 posted on 10/01/2014 1:37:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yeah, but AIDS alone doesn’t make people start bleeding all over the place, ebola does. So ebola is going to be a lot easier to catch that AIDS. Also, people with AIDS weren’t sickened by it at the start, so they could basically go on with their lives, people who have ebola get very sick and need care given to them.

I don’t think these 2 things are very comparable. The AIDS “epidemic” basically stayed within the homosexual and drug abusers universe (also some people who were given blood therapeutically). For example, I’ve never heard of a doctor or a nurse who contracted AIDS from treating a patient, I’m not saying it never happened, but if it did it was a rare and isolated occurrence.

We were told over and over again that AIDS would spread to the general population, that never happened.


45 posted on 10/01/2014 1:37:40 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Mariner

My wife and I had planned to visit the Texas State Fair next Monday on the first leg of our vacation. I cancelled our Dallas reservation last night, and we’ll just spend more time seeing the Texas Hill Country. Not that in a million years there’d be any risk in visiting a venue crowded with thousands of people in a city where an Ebola victim has spent the last week exposing an as-yet unknown number, mind you. But just the same, we can wait until next year to check out the Fair.


46 posted on 10/01/2014 1:38:46 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: DoughtyOne

No chance this will spread exponentially, then.

How many more have been sneaked in across our national boundaries, already?

That’s the thing, nobody knows. And who says this is the only plague being brought in?

Overwhelm our medical facilities, then, when no possible stem can be put on the flood of cases, prohibit all public gatherings and keep people segregated in their communities.

Just in time for the 2014 elections.

I am not being cynical or anything.


47 posted on 10/01/2014 1:41:21 PM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: glorgau
"I’m going to have to re-evaluate my daily transit ride on packed subways."

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Everyone wears masks everywhere. Medical gloves, too.

I think there are four levels of isolation.

I had c-diff, TWICE, and medical staff gloved up and masked up every time they came to the room. I think I was in Level One isolation. I think Ebola is a Level 4 - the highest level.

48 posted on 10/01/2014 1:48:03 PM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: petitfour
"I bet he has a vaccine to peddle all ready."

====================> I think CDC has the patent for antidote.

49 posted on 10/01/2014 1:52:29 PM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: Old Yeller

*I need a definition of “the worst”.*

**Each day, compared to the previous, with this government.**

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve uttered the phrase “we’re so screwed” since Obama was elected, I’m pretty sure I’d be a millionaire by now. ;)


50 posted on 10/01/2014 1:53:11 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: jocon307
"I need a definition of “the worst”."

10,000 active cases, doubling every 20 days.

Once they cross the threshold of 1/2 mil, the virus will run it's course and those who are going to live have natural immunity and plenty of supplies and firepower.

Government will be helpless by then.

The absolute worst case scenario is every man for himself.

51 posted on 10/01/2014 1:55:25 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: jocon307
The blood issue is a valid one. I'll grant you that. Here is a great big problem to me.

In the United States, approximately 1.1 million adults and adolescents are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and, each year, another 50,000 become infected (1). At the end of 2008, approximately 20% of the persons living with HIV had an undiagnosed infection. LINK

This means that over 200,000 people had aids, that had no idea how they had caught it. They did not participate in the things they were warned not to participate in.

Do you think it was wise to not quaranteen AIDS patients?

This is what I am getting at. I don't think hundreds of thousands of people should have been lied to, and have contracted the disease due to the government simply ignoring the danger.

If it's my spouse, child, or other family member, this is a very big deal to me.

Lets also focus on the reality that these were the figures in the 2006-2008 time frame.

What this says is that since roughly the late 1980s, the United States government implemented a police that was sure to kill off literally hundreds of thousands of the populace rather than treat an infection disease for what it was.

Think how many fewer hundreds of thousands or even millions would have died, if AIDS had been treated as the infectious disease it was.

Today we might not even have the disease in the general populace if early on it had been combated aggressively.

We may have been talking about anything from a few thousand people infected, to perhaps in the low tens of thousands of people. Instead, we have millions carrying it still in public.

Of course you were right to address who the most at risk segment of the populace was, but then this political approach was taken to supposedly protect them. Did it?

No way! It exposed this segment of our populace to the vile disease by design. Tell me that was in their favor.

We left bath houses open. We allowed infected people to infect as many others as they could. Very rarely did we see someone penalized for this.

Everyone from our nation's Surgeon General on down should be ashamed of themselves. Some of them should have done prison time IMO.

52 posted on 10/01/2014 1:55:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: wtd
Illegals?

We don't know WHERE they are!

53 posted on 10/01/2014 1:56:40 PM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: alloysteel

Well, it’s hard to tell what the ramifications will be.

I will think they’ll keep it reasonably under control, but I don’t know that for sure.

Their track record certainly isn’t encouraging.


54 posted on 10/01/2014 1:58:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: FamiliarFace

Some parts of the government know a lot more about ebola that you thing. No way the military has not been researching the crap out of this bug.


55 posted on 10/01/2014 2:01:17 PM PDT by TBall
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To: TBall

That’s true, but even the military is full of PC. Plus they take their ultimate orders from the President. So if he wants them to be quiet, they have to be, or risk their careers.


56 posted on 10/01/2014 2:06:24 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Little Ray

When I told my 13yo son this story, I asked what he thought might happen next.

He didn’t hesitate: “Zombie apocalypse.”

I laughed, but... in a way, well... I just hope he’s wrong. :-(


57 posted on 10/01/2014 2:11:21 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Great stuff. They couldn’t release UHF as a new movie in today’s PC world.


58 posted on 10/01/2014 2:33:12 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: DoughtyOne
No need to panic. It's all OK. Just look at this map.

Global Outbreak Map

59 posted on 10/01/2014 2:51:17 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: b4its2late

Agreed. Where there is one case, there is bound to be another, and another, and another...


60 posted on 10/01/2014 3:13:05 PM PDT by Roger Kaputnik
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