Posted on 10/09/2014 8:37:08 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Watauga Medical Center officials said late Thursday that they are monitoring a patient who showed up at the Boone hospital earlier in the day for a possible Ebola infection.
The person had recently traveled to a foreign country and had a fever, officials said, adding that the patient presents no threat to the community.
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Boone also is home to Samaritan's Purse, a missionary group that employs Dr. Kent Brantly, one of the first Americans to contract Ebola in west Africa. Brantly has since recovered from his infection.
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Where is Boone?
North Carolina.
North Carolina? Oh oh. Hagan’s state.
Wonder if this is a Samaritan’s Purse missionary that’s returned from the hot zone.
No, this is OUR state, not Kay Hagan's
Why is it that we assume that a person who is infected with ebola and survives is no longer infected ?
Omg My Ribs Thanks for the laugh.
Why do I feel I’m watching “Ressurection” for real? Everyone is just popping up.
Find the vid of the guy on a USAir flight being escorted off the plane by HAZMATs. I think it was Philly to Charlotte.
This is how serious the Government deals with it. If you are on that flight and it is real, screwed. Remember folks, it isn’t airborne. /s
this is getting old - a person who has been in a danger zone, has fever, goes to hospital - hospital says - 'no problem - go home'
few days later, oops.
If this first 2 indicators are present: been in ebola area, has fever -" how the heck about keeping them in quarantine at least for 4-5 days?
oh snap...im in Va on southern border but this is getting to close for comfort!
Mike
Because a false sense of security makes some people feel better.
It's called immunity. When someone receives a vaccination or survives an active infection with most organisms, they build up antibodies that protect them from a future infection. Transfusions from compatible donors who have survived an Ebola infection have been successfully used to treat some Ebola patients. I believe that is the only "drug" that Dr. Brantley received and he has since donated his blood to help save the lives of others.
Beautiful town.....used to be full of hippies
Now its more hipsters and college
Very mountainous
In a sharp valley
At around 3500-4000 foot...real winters
Highest town of consequence east of Mississippi
Extreme NW NC near Grandfather MT
I used to own high mountaintop property there
They are intentionally withholding critical information. Was this guy in Canada, where the seasonal flu has already started, or was he in and Ebola-infected region of West Africa? Its not appropriate to simply refer to "a foreign country" without communicating the critical information on whether that travel is relevant to Ebola fears.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Brantly got some ZMapp, but you are right before that all he got was a transfusion from a kid that he had previously treated for Ebola. That probably helped at least until he could get other treatments.
-——Boone also is home to Samaritan’s Purse——
Tucked away in a valley just out of Boone is the surprisingly large Samaritan’s Purse campus. It is a very big operation
Several individuals interviewed in Liberia are actually based on this campus in the mountains of North Carolina
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