Posted on 10/16/2014 8:20:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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A nurse with Ebola may have shown symptoms of the virus as many as four days before authorities once indicated, meaning that she might have been contagious while flying on not just one, but two commercial flights, officials said Thursday.
Amber Vinson was hospitalized Tuesday, one day after she took a Frontier flight from Cleveland to Dallas. Tests later found that Vinson -- who was among those who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital -- had Ebola.
Authorities indicated Vinson had a slightly elevated temperature of 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit, which was below the fever threshold for Ebola, but didn't show any symptoms of the disease while on her Monday flight. This is significant because a person isn't contagious with Ebola, which spreads through the transmission of bodily fluids, until he or she has symptoms of the disease.
But on Thursday, Dr. Chris Braden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters in Ohio that "we have started to look at the possibility that she had symptoms going back as far as Saturday. ... We can't rule out (that) she might have had the start of her illness on Friday."(continued)
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My mother, sister, and I were quarantined when the two of us kids got Scarlet Fever in the 1950’s. My father had to stay on the base and was not allowed back in the house. I do have a memory of people leaving boxes of groceries at the door, but that’s about it.
She needs to face criminal charges.
At the the least reckless endangerment. Maybe assault.
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...
Yup.
It is not as if hospitals are the paragon of infection control....They aren’t. But for any individual who has taken care of an ebola patient to not be prevented from commercial travel is just nuts.
Quarantines work..
The thugocracy of O doesn’t want it because then his beloved vision of everyone being third worlders would disappear
prevented by who? CDC does not have police power.
Not just two planeloads, people on flights afterwards. Probably 6 to 8 planeloads. Random people in the airports. Random people at the football game. Random people every where she went in Cleveland.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Reporting today that her contacts, including all people on all flights of both planes, is upwards of 800.
The owner of the bridal shop where Amber went with her bridesmaids will hav to ditch all her stock and decontaminate the building. She will probably go bankrupt.
All this because of one selfish young woman.
The word quarantine comes to mind
Thanks for the ping!
it seems its just been people that have been in direct contact, person to person, with an obola patient...
It is reported that she was taking Tylenol due to her feeling bad which may
have lowered her fever symptoms!!!!
Ive taken Tylenol when I had a fever, but after 6 hours it wears off..she must have been popping those pills constantly because the owner of the Bridal Shop said that she spent hours with Amber and she never coughed, never sneezed, never showed any signs of illness. I just don’t see how someone can have Ebola for days and not show a single sign, if she already had Ebola on Friday she would have been dead by Monday
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