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No illness detected in Ebola patient's fiancee, family
WFAA ^ | 10/20/2014 | WFAA

Posted on 10/19/2014 6:49:36 PM PDT by Dallas59

Edited on 10/19/2014 7:12:41 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: disease; ebola; pityparty; raysisum
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To: surroundedbyblue
I think it’s premature to declare these folks as “Ebola-free”

You have a lot more experience than Obama's pick for Ebola Czar. A niece just became a registered nurse earlier this year, maybe bad timing what with ebola becoming an issue. She certainly has more experience than the Ebola Czar (and she's retired Navy so she has military experience).

41 posted on 10/19/2014 7:48:15 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: ClearCase_guy

Such as Amber Vinson’s mother who was exposed to Ebola and hopped on a plane to be with her daughter.

What hotel is going to have a nightmare if Amber’s mother turns out to have Obolo.


42 posted on 10/19/2014 7:59:06 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Rushmore Rocks

What about Amber’s boyfriend? Is he under observation?


43 posted on 10/19/2014 7:59:53 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Jane Long

“Why were these cohabitants NOT infected? (That we know of.)”

They obviously knew where he was traveling from so maybe they kept enough distance from him in the apartment when he became ill.


44 posted on 10/19/2014 7:59:56 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: dandiegirl

I believe that we may have to waterboard the ebola czar to get to the truth.

But perhaps the secrecy runs so deep that they are telling him lies just to keep him on the job.


45 posted on 10/19/2014 8:06:17 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: steve86

It seems as though the Islamic funeral rites (washing and kissing the deceased) has a lot to do with African transmission. Of course, we are too polite to say so but the two cases of contagion in the US are from nurses who cared for Duncan during his last hours. This seems to be true for at least some of the cases. Duncan was infected during a woman’s last hours.


46 posted on 10/19/2014 8:06:22 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: dandiegirl

I saw Pretty Boy Jenkins on the news today being interviewed

He looked like death warmed over. Skinnier than usual, gaunt face, white as a sheet. I know the PC Panderer probably hates that latter description, just calling it as I see it.


47 posted on 10/19/2014 8:08:30 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
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To: Dallas59

Very strange.


48 posted on 10/19/2014 8:09:46 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: roadcat

At the rate Mr. Obama is importing ebola, we shall soon find out.


49 posted on 10/19/2014 8:12:35 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: A_Former_Democrat

He’s a strange looking dude.


50 posted on 10/19/2014 8:13:05 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: RummyChick

“People who haven’t gotten “sick” still show up with the antibodies..and thus if they have the antibodies they are good candidates to donate blood if none is available from anywhere else.”

Simply because a person who has been exposed to Ebola and does not contract Ebola, does not mean that they have antibodies to Ebola.


51 posted on 10/19/2014 8:15:09 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: A_Former_Democrat

His was Jenkins exposed to Ebola?


52 posted on 10/19/2014 8:16:50 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: txrefugee

Shssss. I think you may be on to something.


53 posted on 10/19/2014 8:23:18 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: Jane Long
Louise Troh....says she and her family are showing no signs of the deadly disease after a 21-day quarantine.

Why is that?

That is because Ebola is not an airborne disease, but is spread by prolonged close contact. None of the family were in prolonged close contact with the index case.

The two nurses who got sick were apparently taking care of him without using proper PPE until he was diagnosed. By then, they had been exposed for 2 days. Nurses sometimes have very close contact with patients. There is no excuse for them not wearing proper PPE; that should be standard hospital procedure for dealing with any patient with an unknown disease.

54 posted on 10/19/2014 8:30:49 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Oliviaforever

I’m assuming you are asking “How was Jenkins exposed to Ebola”?

My understanding was he spent 30 minutes unprotected in the apt shortly after Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola. He also claimed he gave the family the ride over to the secret place. If the family et al does not have Ebola, which it is looking like is the case, then he wasn’t “exposed” to it. Just sheer negligence on his part to take that risk, and then to go home to his family, to his job, etc.


55 posted on 10/19/2014 8:31:38 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
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To: jocon307
And while it may be that his family, at least those ones who actually hail from Liberia might have some natural resistance or even immunity, I’m not even sure how or if that could be determined.

If they have immunity, an antibody titer can be measured from their blood. Many people in Africa have anti-Ebola antibodies in their blood, indicating that they are probably immune.

56 posted on 10/19/2014 8:33:19 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Jane Long

“”Why were these cohabitants NOT infected?”

For the same reason that not every hospital staffer that worked with Duncan got infected and the very same reason why if someone at your workplace has the flu, not everyone in the office gets the flu.


57 posted on 10/19/2014 8:33:20 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: dandiegirl
I don’t believe it. Clay Jenkins is covering his a%&. It just doesn’t seem possible that a nurse in full hazmat gets it and they don’t. Something fishy going on.

According to timelines that I have seen, the nurses were not using full PPE until after the patient was definitively diagnosed. So, for two days, they were caring for him while he became progressively more infectious. Hospital guidelines *should* be for full PPE to be used until the disease is diagnosed; at that time, PPE use can be scaled down if the diagnosis warrants doing so.

58 posted on 10/19/2014 8:36:44 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Ebola can live outside the body on surfaces for around 12 hours. If he went into the apartment more than 12 hours after Duncan left, he would not have been exposed.


59 posted on 10/19/2014 8:37:26 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: goodwithagun
Can we sue the CDC, or are they immune (pun intended) from law suits?

Sue the CDC for what, exactly? For the fact that the hospital did not use CDC guidelines and a couple of nurses got sick? The CDC only puts out the recommendations--it expects local hospitals to be mature enough to follow them.

60 posted on 10/19/2014 8:38:53 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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