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Texas nurse who had worn protective gear tests positive for Ebola
CNN.com ^ | 10/12/2014 | The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.

Posted on 10/12/2014 2:29:00 PM PDT by rdl6989

The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.

A nurse who had worn protective gear during her "extensive contact" at a Dallas hospital with an Ebola patient who died tested positive during a preliminary blood test, officials said Sunday.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ebola; texas
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To: rdl6989

She wore *some* protective gear, and may have followed protocols.

Wearing and then *removing* protective gear actually requires training, and practice. Insufficient practice would not be surprising amidst the delayed preparedness caused by wishful thinking.


21 posted on 10/12/2014 2:45:12 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Shelayne

I’m surprised in a way that there are as relatively few cases in Africa as there have been. Could there be more nonfatal or even nonsymptomatic cases than we know, that nobody has identified?


22 posted on 10/12/2014 2:46:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

23 posted on 10/12/2014 2:46:46 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: GeronL

How much do we pay for a single F-22? The problem is that they have put so little thought into how to contain Ebola. The first outbreak, in a rural area, was contained and the threat ended as soon as the victims were mostly dead. So here they are, unprepared, as the disease works its way through urban populations. May be like a war. all you can do is to minimize the casualties, and attack the objective with sufficient force.


24 posted on 10/12/2014 2:46:58 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: null and void

ping


25 posted on 10/12/2014 2:47:09 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: lepton

And... again I’m curious. Do they even try to disinfect first, e.g. bleach shower in the suit?


26 posted on 10/12/2014 2:47:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: rdl6989

We don’t know exactly how she got it, but we do know who she got it from and had he stayed in Liberia, this nurse would not have ebola. Pretty simple.


27 posted on 10/12/2014 2:49:33 PM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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To: samtheman
Don’t worry, be happy
-signed, CDC

Trust the Feral Gubm'nt.

They are bound to get something right one of these days.


28 posted on 10/12/2014 2:50:55 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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To: RobbyS
The problem is that they have put so little thought into how to contain Ebola.

It wasn't exactly at the top of their list like ObamaPhones and all that.

29 posted on 10/12/2014 2:51:14 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: rdl6989

Has the CDC cited precisely which protocol was broken?

No. Will they? Doubtful because they don’t know . Will the CDC admit it doesn’t know? Depends on what King Obama tells them to say.

Bottom line, can’t trust the CDC


30 posted on 10/12/2014 2:51:20 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Sarah Barracuda

YUP!!!!

SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM:
YOU WANT TO COME TO THE US FROM AN EBOLA COUNTRY....You get your ticket and visa, on that day you are quaranteened for 30 days, then you get on plane if ok. If you are traveling here , that should be no problem. We don’t cancel visitors, they just wait.


31 posted on 10/12/2014 2:51:22 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Bush won the War in Iraq, Obozo lost the peace..and gave Iraq back to the Terrorists!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

RE:The healthcare worker in Spain was said to have touched her clothing after removing it. Truthful statement? Who knows. But that is what was said.


32 posted on 10/12/2014 2:53:09 PM PDT by donozark (I may not have always saw the Phantoms. But I sure as hell heard their bombs!)
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To: rdl6989

The very same CNN article in this link maintains ebola is not that easy to catch. Yet neither CNN or the CDC can explain precisely how the nurse caught ebola.

Wow,,the arrogance is just astounding!


33 posted on 10/12/2014 2:53:13 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: rdl6989; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

34 posted on 10/12/2014 2:54:13 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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To: umgud

“had he stayed in Liberia, this nurse would not have ebola. Pretty simple.”

Great. Can you explain that to Pres__ent Obola?


35 posted on 10/12/2014 2:54:27 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: rdl6989
Maybe they should start treating Ebola patients on busses. Obolahatarigumbe says you can sit right next to someone bleeding-out from Ebola on a bus, and you're perfectly safe. Comrades, this is glorious news! Get on a bus. Ebola hates busses. Steve Martin The Jerk photo: the-jerk-smiling-steve-martin the-jerk-smiling-steve-martin.jpg
36 posted on 10/12/2014 2:55:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: umgud
We don’t know exactly how she got it, but we do know who she got it from and had he stayed in Liberia, this nurse would not have ebola. Pretty simple.

THAT ^^^ should've been the Dallas Health Director/CDC's statement.

37 posted on 10/12/2014 2:56:21 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Here is my solution..take all these Ebola riddled vermin, and take them to the White House, let them cough on Obama’s daughter’s see how he likes them apples


38 posted on 10/12/2014 3:00:12 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: austinaero

I don’t understand why there isn’t video taken of all the Ebola related procedures and removing of protective clothing so that they can identify mistakes and critique them at meetings.


39 posted on 10/12/2014 3:00:54 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: All

” But, I did everything right “ will look good on her tombstone.


40 posted on 10/12/2014 3:01:21 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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