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Texas health care worker tests positive for Ebola
CNN ^ | Sun October 12, 2014 | By Joe Sutton, CNN

Posted on 10/12/2014 2:43:21 AM PDT by radu

A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, the hospital said in a statement.

Confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cdc; dallas; ebola; obamasfault
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To: samtheman
Really? I haven't seen much fighting back against the communist takeover of our country so far. I find it hard to believe this -- or anything -- will change the fundamental complacency of the American people.

It might end up doing some good. Instead of sending their kids to die in a government school, Americans will start homeschooling en masse, and kids will stop being indoctrinated and start learning. For progressives, that is a worse outcome than the disease.

41 posted on 10/12/2014 3:23:09 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Mark17

I agree. They are criminally negligent. So is WHO. And Obama is criminally negligent and criminally incompetent.


42 posted on 10/12/2014 3:23:31 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: radu
And with reports of people being caught at the border who are from those countries, banning flights would only do so much good. .

Not to mention the virus that was brought here by the illegals crossing the border that is killing children. This is terrorism by germ warfare & yet no outrage!

43 posted on 10/12/2014 3:23:41 AM PDT by blondee123 (DICTATORSHIP HAS ARRIVED! Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: DannyTN

You got that right!


44 posted on 10/12/2014 3:25:32 AM PDT by blondee123 (DICTATORSHIP HAS ARRIVED! Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: blondee123
I realize that, but with the refusal to ban flights, the useless temperature scans at a few airports, this will become epidemic before long.

The temperature scans are not totally useless. It is true, they won't catch all infected individuals, but they will catch contagious ones, thus saving fellow passengers.

If Duncan had been contagious when he boarded in Monrovia, I expect the mess would be bigger than it is by now.

45 posted on 10/12/2014 3:25:59 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Mom MD
What about the dilemma of someone who gets sick? If they have flu symptoms but don't think they've had Ebola contact, do they run more risk going to the Emergency Ward, full of sick and infected people? How do hospitals keep people who go there and work there safe from the spread of the disease? Who's going to pay for the care?

All hypothetical questions. For individuals, becoming more isolated and avoiding disease is probably the best reaction at this point.

46 posted on 10/12/2014 3:27:02 AM PDT by grania
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To: blondee123

The MSM refuses to mention the illegals the few times they say anything about that virus and apparently most people aren’t making that connection. I think if they did, we’d hear more outrage.


47 posted on 10/12/2014 3:29:08 AM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: radu
, banning flights would only do so much good.

So much good is better than no good.

You do what you can do. No need to compound the deliberate "error" of Comrade Obola.

48 posted on 10/12/2014 3:32:24 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Mark17
More than a few I would suspect

...and the State Fair is going on. Terrible timing.

49 posted on 10/12/2014 3:32:28 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: RegulatorCountry

The immune systems of victims probably has a lot to do with who is most susceptible to the virus. Some have very weak immune systems and/or other health issues, others do not.


50 posted on 10/12/2014 3:32:32 AM PDT by varina davis (Gov. Rick Perry in 2016)
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To: radu

Just add 3 weeks to Thomas Duncan’s death.

At that point we will have a better understanding of how bad Ebola could be.

So now we are at #2.


52 posted on 10/12/2014 3:33:33 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Mom MD
I think this would be a great time for a sabbatical for hospital doctors--after all, Geraldo Rivera wants to sue those doctors for somehow being racist and malpractice or something…

Let's see Geraldo go to West Africa…

54 posted on 10/12/2014 3:35:20 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Vince Ferrer

I would figure that by December of 2015....most American schools will go through the Ebola ‘scare’, and shut down operations for three months minimum. How they arrange for the kid to get credit, or just dismiss school for 2015/2016...will be a big question mark. A lot of folks will go ballistic because they think it puts their kid behind a year.

Added to this...how does a university function, if it shuts down for four or five months due to Ebola? An NCAA football schedule completely cancelled? An NFL season cancelled? A TV series suspended because two of it’s main actors are in some quarantine?


55 posted on 10/12/2014 3:36:05 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: xzins
It suggests to me some kind of susceptibility on the part of the receiver, whether the virulence of the contact or something within their own makeup that is more prone to infection by this virus or something about the method of entry by the virus.

There are probably humans that are immune. Dogs, for instance, are known to be mostly immune, despite being susceptible to infection.

But the most likely hypothesis for humans is that the volume of the exposure matters. I.e., it's more dangerous to handle an almost-dead patient than to be in the same apartment with a new patient in the process of getting sick enough to be hospitalized.

56 posted on 10/12/2014 3:36:06 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: xzins
Obama’s Open Borders Policies Have Spread Terrible Disease. America wake up.

In so many ways, no one person has done so much damage to the United States. I guess the entitlement junkies are getting what they wanted.

57 posted on 10/12/2014 3:37:23 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: radu

http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told


58 posted on 10/12/2014 3:38:06 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: pepsionice
how does a university function, if it shuts down for four or five months due to Ebola?

GoToMeeting. It's wildly under-utilized.

59 posted on 10/12/2014 3:38:12 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: blondee123

“If Duncan had been contagious when he boarded in Monrovia, I expect the mess would be bigger than it is by now. “

The real danger is has this already happened with someone else and we just don’t know yet.


60 posted on 10/12/2014 3:38:56 AM PDT by Duke of Milan
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