Ebola 'Screened Positive' Patient Leaves Texas Hospital After Mere Hours of Isolation

Breitbart Texas ^ | October 17, 2014 | Michelle Moons

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP!

[trebb]

It was apparently a hoax. It is the "why" that still has me confused...

Like the nut job at the Pentagon - morons.

[Jim Noble]

Bad, bad, use of language.

I don’t know this case personally, but reading between the lines, what they mean by “screened positive” is a person who answered “yes” to two questions:

1) Have you or anyone you are in contact with traveled to Liberia, Guinea, or Sierra Leone in the last month?

2) Do you have a fever, or are you experiencing headache, muscle aches, diarrhea, or nausea and vomiting?

To call this “screening positive for Ebola” is a substantial misuse of language.

I use these two questions to refer people for a more in-depth interview, called the “two-yes interview”. After the two-yes interview, more than 99% of persons can be dismissed with no further workup, either because they didn’t understand the questions or because they lied to get the “Ebola test”.

“Screening positive”, to me, means that an actual test that can reveal the presence of Ebola virus has been done and is positive but not confirmed. If THOSE cases were the ones in the news, there would have been exactly two since the crisis began (the two Dallas nurses).

[MaxMax]

The CDC is receiving their medical advice from political hacks. Mainly Obola's lackeys
who are probably nothing more than Yes-men who also have no clue other than
telling Obola what he wants to hear.

This admin will not get a pass for the last six years of blundering.
History will be written by them though.

[AndyJackson]

Perhaps the headline is dramatic, and the reporter should have asked, and written down a further question, but folks could also accurately quote the article where it says: the patient had only screened positive(i.e., reported risk factors and showed symptoms that could indicate an infection) for Ebola, but had not yet tested positive for the virus.”

Now we know what screened positive means. The real question is whether the patient was confirmed not to have ebola, or if not yet is the subject isolated and undergoing monitoring until test results are returned?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

HOAX? Ir mat be like what happened back when Britain first legalized their health care joke, er that is, system.

Many bums there went to the library and studied up on various symptoms of diseases, then went to the hospitals complaining of such symptoms.

the purpose was to get a free meal and a bed to sleep in.

[MasterGunner01]

The problem is like the little boy who cried “wolf”, his credibility was done when the real wolf showed up. By allowing themselves to be manipulated and seen as vacillating and incompetent, CDC and NIH will lose credibility. Loss of credibility is not a good thing because Americans have been conditioned to think of CDC and NIH as the “first team”. To learn otherwise is demoralizing and results in expanding casualties where Ebola is concerned. Importing Ebola patients into America only endangers the risk to everyone. Time to arrest Obama and his enablers and send them to certain death tending Ebola victims.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[AmericanExceptionalist]

HOAX? Ir mat be like what happened back when Britain first legalized their health care joke, er that is, system.

Many bums there went to the library and studied up on various symptoms of diseases, then went to the hospitals complaining of such symptoms.

the purpose was to get a free meal and a bed to sleep in.

I would think this person could (and should) be prosecuted; in which case, he will be paying a very heavy price for merely having acquired "a free meal and a bed to sleep in."