Posted on 10/09/2014 1:22:53 PM PDT by tatown
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Dallas County Deputy who showed up to an urgent care facility yesterday complaining of symptoms of Ebola has tested negative for the virus, the Department of State Health Services announced Thursday.
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Hello, Pollyanna, nice to meet you!
lol....
Thanks, that’s reasonable.
It is 2 to 21 day Incubation Period. If you make it 21 days without symptoms, no ebola.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html
When does a test for Ebola become fool proof? Are there really false negatives that turn out to be positives?
Fool Proof, after 21 days I would say. Early detection may have negative results that prove to be positive. Most the test seem to be reliable results after 3 days of symptoms.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/interim-guidance-specimen-collection-submission-patients-suspected-infection-ebola.html When Specimens Should Be Collected for Ebola Testing at CDC Ebola virus is detected in blood only after the onset of symptoms, usually fever. It may take up to 3 days after symptoms appear for the virus to reach detectable levels. Virus is generally detectable by real-time RT-PCR from 3-10 days after symptoms appear. Specimens ideally should be taken when a symptomatic patient reports to a healthcare facility and is suspected of having an Ebola exposure. However, if the onset of symptoms is <3 days, a later specimen may be needed to completely rule-out Ebola virus, if the first specimen tests negative.
How exactly is Ebola contracted?
Magic Question. It seems no one is catching from someone without symptoms.
Phew.
No, I haven’t heard that.
From most everything I read this guy had a bad burrito.
I don’t blame him for getting nervous. He had been in the house. I would be a little hinky too.
From your answers, it would seem that the cop may still have Ebola. They just can’t prove it one way or another yet.
I always thought he just wanted a ride down to Dallas cuz he didn’t have a TollTag.
I agree. Reports today say he does not (or no longer) has symptoms.
Deputy in good condition; not showing signs of Ebola
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/08/patient-frisco-ebola-suspect/16922477/
1:36 p.m. CDT October 9, 2014
“Mr. Monnig’s condition is good with no fever, no vomiting, no diarrhea reported. His current condition is NOT consistent with an early stage ebola diagnosis. Texas Health Dallas’ standard laboratory testing indicates all findings are within normal ranges. Further lab testing specimens have been received in Austin and results are expected later today,” the hospital told News 8 Thursday around noon.
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I read he had fatigue and stomach pains when he went to the hospital. I think I would have the same knowing I had entered that apartment unprotected and started thinking about it afterwards.
I bet that’s RACIST somehow.
“Hello, Pollyanna, nice to meet you!”
My family will continue to live our lives while others can fear shark attacks, lightening bolts and Ebola.
Do you live in Dallas or Frisco?
It does not matter if I live in Dallas or Frisco. I am not going to catch Ebola from a deputy that never had Ebola.
Wow, brilliant!
Amen
The cost will be innocent lives. Once they let in 100's of Ebola cases some Americans will get infected. Some of them will get sent home because hospital isolation areas will be full of flu cases. Those people will have their blood tested and two days later the moonsuit team will show up at their house and take him or her away and disinfect. It may have spread to her family despite precautions.
Meanwhile in the overcrowded isolation unit at the hospital if they are not careful they will spread ebola to some flu patients. They have procedures for disinfecting between patients, but we see health care workers infecting themselves it stands to reason they can infect others as well.
Duncan’s GF and her extended family / roommates and the stepdaughter and her family should get symptomatic before any deputies that showed up a week later. They just finished day 11. Their chance of having been infected is getting lower as the days pass.
So does he have Marsberg?
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