Posted on 10/20/2014 12:00:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Louise Troh, her son and two nephews of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are released from mandatory monitoring, but will stay at the Catholic Conference Center in Dallas for several more days, until authorities can find them a place to rent, government and church officials said Monday morning.
Troh was Duncan’s girlfriend. She and the other three have been staying at the Dallas Diocese's Catholic Conference and Formation Center in Oak Cliff for the last 21 days.
The gated conference center sits only a few blocks off of I-35E and is enclosed by gates and a chainlink fence.
Bishop Kevin Farrell said he only thought about it briefly before agreeing to take in Troh and her family.
They have been isolated in a cabin at the back corner of the property away from the street. A Dallas County Sheriff's patrol car was parked about 50 yards inside the gate.
"I considered every property the church owns," Farrell said. "I was very impressed that the mayor personally came here.”
Retreats and conferences were canceled at the conference center but will resume this week....
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
Why did the two Dallas nurses get Ebola when they at least had some protective gear, but the family and the EMTs, or the initial ER health caregiver did not get it (as far as we know) despite the fact that they were in contact with Duncan and presumably had little or no protection?
Apparently, Duncan had high fevers, diarrhea, and vomiting after the initial contact and should have been very infectious before he went into isolation.
It doesn’t add up.
No, just that the pregnant woman he had taken to the hospital who died of Ebola, as reported earlier, was his girlfriend.
The only people who have contracted this in the West have been people who were in contact with the patient’s stomach or bowel fluids. These are release upon death, and in Africa, people actually press the,out of the bodies before burial. The healthcare professionals here and in Spain didn’t have a stringent enough set of protocolos for people actually handling bodily waste.
Interestingly, the only person who took care of Duncan when he showed up was his niece, who is an LPN. But she’s either from Liberia or very close to it, ànd she said she did what they told them to do in Liberia: wash your gloves and hands with bleach and be careful what you touch.
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