What Quarantine?… Photos Show MEN CLEANING TX EBOLA VOMIT Without SUITS!

A photo posted to Twitter by New York Post web editorial assistant Connor Ryan shows an unprotected family member delivering food to the quarantined Texas family of the Liberian man hospitalized with Ebola.

Photo: James Breeden/Splash News
In the photo, a quarantined family member is bringing in supplies left at the apartment door by Red Cross volunteers.

More… The media also released these shocking photos today:

WFAA image of individuals pressure washing Mr. Duncan’s ebola laced vomit from the pavement/sidewalk. The men are not wearing any biohazard protective clothing or gear and there is a woman walking through the liquid in the parking lot wearing sandles. (wtd)

Here’s another photo of the unprotected worker cleaning up Ebola vomit on the sidewalk with a power washer.

A worker power washes the sidewalk in front of the apartment unit at The Ivy Apartments where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas October 2, 2014. Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, and four people have been quarantined in a Dallas apartment, health officials said on Thursday. (REUTERS/Mike Stone)

Although one might think that blood from an acute phase patient would contain viable virus, the fact that it did not could very well mean that the patient was beginning to mount an immune response and was, in fact, in the process of clearing virus from the blood.

Isn't that the stage where people start to appear sick? When the body is fighting back with higher temperatures etc? Wouldn't it seem logical to assume a person is most infectious right before they mount the defense (right before symptoms appear AND after the body has started losing it's ability to fight off the disease?

Thank you for the information on the start of the outbreak. While I had the timing right, the knowledge it was Ebola surfaces in articles in March. Still, that is well over six months without garnering much more than a passing nod.

Yes, The UN (UNICEF, anyway) knew what was going on even then.

I am well aware of the cultural differences between (most of) the US and Africa.

It hasn't been so long since a wake was standard issue in this country either, at least in some parts of the population.

But, just as African Culture has its quirks, so do we.

Those weaknesses in our cultural framework that cannot or will not be anticipated will be exposed if this disease gets a solid foothold, just as the vulnerabilities inherent in African Culture have been exposed.

I got into a bit of a wrangle with someone who could/would not understand that hygiene, like safety, begins with the individual, regardless of circumstance.

Technology is nice, and sometimes even essential, but poor or slovenly habits can thwart even the most laudable of available technologies, and much of America is slovenly. I believe we were more germ conscious before we had antibiotics to look toward for salvation, even if for many their surroundings were a little less convenient than the more modern fixtures of today.

Speak with anyone who has been a fireman, worked EMS, or been a policeman who gets an unanticipated glimpse into people's lives, and they will be able to describe an America that is far from gleaming stainless steel and spotless glass. Yes, some are fastidious and I laud them, but many are not.

Despite our smugness, the fastidious share a world with those who are not, and that can be anyone's undoing. Recall the scene in the video you linked where the fellow took off his gloves in the middle of the village and dropped them on the ground--another disposed of them properly. There was another where, riding in the back of the truck with the corpse, one person pulled down their mask...

Even those who should know better will have lapses.

More later.

....too many conflicting reports...but the bedding and towels he used were put in plastic bags early on.

I do think “Louise”, Duncans girlfriend, is creating situations because frankly she doesn’t want to be in the position she has to be.

There was one report that Wed. she sent her son to school..who was sent home, and why the judges order to the family.

So who knows how many of these reports are accurate...especially with the media putting in their own twists.

But what this does overall tell us is that the family is dodging the truth on many points, just as those in Liberia etc are doing which prevents getting a handle on this.

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