Posted on 10/15/2014 5:46:36 PM PDT by TADSLOS
UPDATE, 5:45 p.m.: Belton ISD has called a press conference for 6:30 p.m. tonight regarding the student who was on the same plane with the Ebola patient. Tune in tonight at 6 p.m. for the latest.
Belton ISD sent out a letter to parents from two schools Wednesday, informing them that a Belton ISD student traveled on the flight Monday with the second nurse who tested positive for Ebola.
The letter reads:
'Dear Parents:
Your child's health and safety is our top priority at North Belton Middle School. When issues of concern are brought to our attention, we want to share that information with you.
This afternoon we were made aware that one of our students traveled on Frontier Airlines Flight #1143 from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday and attended classes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Another passenger on that flight has since been diagnosed with the Ebola virus.
It is important to know that individuals are not contagious until symptoms appear.
According to statements from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Frontier Airlines, the passenger did not show any symptoms during the flight, and the risk of exposure for other passengers on the flight was low.
The student who traveled on the flight is not currently showing any symptoms and is being monitored by the Bell County Health Department and the Texas Department of State Health Services. Because of this, there is no imminent risk to your child.
Please know that Belton ISD is in regular communication with the family and officials from the state and local health departments. We will provide more information as it becomes available.
For more information about the Ebola virus, please visit this link from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ebola-factsheet.pdf."
This hits close to home. My wife taught in this school district.
We now know this to be false.
“It is important to know that individuals are not contagious until symptoms appear.”
Well, the nurse was contagious (she had a fever).
And do we KNOW that individuals are not contagious in all cases, until symptoms appear? Or just in, say, 95% of the cases?
There was a physician who called into Rush on Tuesday and talked about this issue... I think the short answer is no, they don't know that and in fact, there is a good chance that someone will not yet be symptomatic but still be able to pass ebola on.
The second a school aged child is diagnosed, all hell will break loose.
This is turning into Obama’s Katrina, only 100 times worse.
I think it all depends on the individual’s immune system.
Some will not get sick.
Some will carry the virus and spread it to others.
Some will get sick and recover.
Some will die.
Reading now that the boyfriend of the first nurse is now in isolation with possible symptoms.
Isn’t a low grade temp a “symptom”? (Rhetorical question)
.... However .... is there is a resulting infection ..... It should be noted that the nurse was breaking the proper CDC Protocol and should never had gotten on that plane .....
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
The student who traveled on the flight is not currently showing any symptoms and is being monitored by the Bell County Health Department and the Texas Department of State Health Services. Because of this, there is no imminent risk to your child.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Whty are they assuming the student was not infected?
The correct assumption is that the student is infected. He needs to be quarantined for a month.
A school I substituted at a few times a few years ago was totally cleaned overnight and one of its teachers gets a 21 day vacation because of some plane ride or whatever.
What an unintended consequence. Because of the "don't worry, be happy, reassure the public" mentality the responses are way overboard. But still no talk about not letting anyone in from the infected countries.
I'm wondering what the economic impact might be, because of a public that no longer believes what the feds say.
She had a fever, but that doesn't necessarily mean she was contagious. The virus provokes vomiting and diarrhea in order to gain access to a new host--those symptoms are what makes it contagious. Did the nurse have bouts of diarrhea while on the plane? Is that blue water used to flush airplane toilets disinfectant? I think the chance of transmission to any passenger on that plane is very low, to the cleaning crew a bit higher--if she had diarrhea.
Anyway, she should have gone to a hospital in Ohio when she got the fever. She knew that she was potentially exposed.
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...
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