Posted on 10/01/2014 1:58:05 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
The announcement that a case of Ebola virus has been diagnosed in a Dallas hospital sent a chill through the medical, public health, and basic citizen communities. I know my jaw surely dropped as far as it has dropped since 2001, when the word of the first anthrax case in New York appeared in my email. As the details have begun to emerge, many people are wondering the same thing: Will this happen in my city?
The answer is quite clear: Maybe.
The facts are straightforward, at least in the version that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid out: A man of uncertain age flew from Liberia, where the disease remains uncontrolled, to Dallas to visit family. When checked for illness on departure, he had no fever. Upon landing in Texas on September 20, he was fine. Within four days, though, he began to feel ill—sufficiently so that he sought medical attention on September 26. That evaluation apparently failed to provide clues to the diagnosis, but two days later his symptoms had progressed enough that he again sought medical attention and this time was hospitalized, placed immediately into isolation, and diagnosed on September 30.
The timeline as presented raises countless questions.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Personally, I didn’t even flinch. But that’s just me.
The CDC appears to be yet another bloated, ineffectual government agency.
I read they screened him the first time and he disclosed he had come from Liberia.
But they sent him home anyway.
We are screwed.
This article is missing the information that he had close contact with someone near death of Ebola.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3209997/posts
Four days before traveling to the US this month, Duncan came in direct contact with a female Ebola patient in Monrovia, her family and neighbors tell the newspaper. Duncan rode in a taxi with the woman to the hospital along with some of her relatives. “He was holding her by the legs, the pa was holding her arms, and Sonny Boy was holding her back,” says a witness. The person identified as “Sonny Boy,” 21, has since died, as has the woman they were transporting.
The MOFO POS knew he had Ebola. Get a load of this article....
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html
Mr. Duncan, the first person to develop symptoms outside Africa during the current epidemic, had direct contact with a woman stricken by Ebola on Sept. 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States, the woman’s parents and Mr. Duncan’s neighbors said.
In a pattern often seen here in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, the family of the woman, Marthalene Williams, 19, took her by taxi to a hospital with Mr. Duncan’s help on Sept. 15 after failing to get an ambulance, said her parents, Emmanuel and Amie Williams. She was convulsing and seven months pregnant, they said.
Turned away from a hospital for lack of space in its Ebola treatment ward, the family said it took Ms. Williams back home in the evening, and that she died hours later, around 3 a.m.
Other stories say that he was helping a family transport an infected woman to a hospital, which had no room, and then back home, where she died.
Imagine how easy it would be for Islamic terrorists to send Ebola infected suicide squads to US cities.
Boko Haram.
Centers for Disease Control? What about controlling disease?
42 USC Section 265?
“Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose.”
http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/specificlawsregulations.html
I read they screened him the first time and he disclosed he had come from Liberia.
But they sent him home anyway.
We are screwed.
I read that as well. boggles the mind. these are our front line troops in this battle and they screw that up.
A politically appointed Surgeon General will look to the White House before reaching any such decision, even though the law authorizes and encourages him to do so in the public interest. These are decadent, degenerate times.
Since all the ebola news started, I've imagined a scenario where someone who knew they'd probably been exposed in an African nation would travel to a Western nation to get better treatment and increase their odds of survival if they did develop the disease.
Might not be this case, but no doubt some would try it if they had the means to travel since so little care is available there.
>> “Imagine how easy it would be for Islamic terrorists to send Ebola infected suicide squads to US cities.” <<
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They’re here!
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I’m guessing he did NOT tell them the first time that oh yeah, a few days ago I was transporting a woman dying of ebola.
Perhaps you could elaborate a bit. Would one of those reasons be what your Ouija board told you? When you leave us guessing — we can only guess.
It seems very likely that the Liberian man knew he was infected. Rather than face a near-certain, excruciating death; he decided to travel to the U.S., where he knew he’d get free first-world care. It can’t be that difficult to temporarily lower your body temperature enough to make it past the screeners.
Could well be.
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