Posted on 10/23/2014 1:41:33 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper
The 33-year-old identified as Dr. Craig Spencer recently returned from West Africa after working with Doctors Without Borders. The Harlem resident was rushed to the hospital Thursday with symptoms of the deadly disease, and reports that he had been bowling Wednesday in Williamsburg are under investigation.
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I think blood donor precautions should be taken about Ebola.
He’s already been here 10 days and may be far gone. I bet he’ll have a lot of contacts that need to be quarantined.
Just when we were nearly free!
The camera man was released yesterday, no?
Public transportation from Harlem to Brooklyn. I’m sure he’d had hardly any contact with anyone on that little excursion. And what about the sweat he left on the bowling balls, the germs and viruses on the glasses he had cocktails in, the silverware he ate his bar food with? The paper towels he threw in the wastebasket in the restroom? That he could have blown his nose on?
He’s been here 10 days!
Who waits until they have 103 degree temperature when you’re high risk? You’d think he’d sound the alarm at 99 or something.
“He’s already been here 10 days and may be far gone. I bet he’ll have a lot of contacts that need to be quarantined.”
He’s a doctor and should have used extreme caution.
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Yes I think he is virus free. My worry is about how he contracted the disease. That was different that being a health care provider in the last stages of the disease. He simply helped to clean a contaminated car.
I think he’s reckless. Doctors Without Borders has lost more doctors to Ebola than have survived. Aren’t they mostly French?
Research doesn’t rule out transmission by floating droplets
During a 1995 outbreak of Ebola in Kikwit, Congo, a team of scientists studied 316 people diagnosed with the disease. For the vast majority, there was an explanation of how they contracted the disease. They had a history of very close contact with a patient and body fluids, many of them in a hospital where patients were being treated.
But for 12 people there was no clear explanation of how they had become infected, said Dr. C.J. Peters, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He headed the research team when he worked for the CDC.
Because there was no evidence that those 12 people had been close to an Ebola patient, the researchers said they had to consider such possibilities as droplets containing virus, airborne virus particles or the touching of a contaminated object.
Definitely blood donor precautions should be taken. Good point.
bowling and a private person’s car.
Healthcare workers are some of the most unhealthy people I've ever seen.
That is interesting. I think better safe than sorry should be the response until we know a whole lot more about it. One problem has been that officials have been too overconfident, worried more about reactions than the actual disease.
and the reports i have watched and read: taped. tape is their best defense around the seams.
I had outpatient surgery last week..at a very large hospital in Orange County, CA. Later after surgery, I was watching Fox News & the CDC guy was on, rambling about something. I had 2 of my nurses in the room at the time, they were both trying to listen to what he was saying. After, they both pretty much admitted that they weren’t ready if Ebola hit their hospital...they both seemed kinda spooked, nervous even talking about it.
He used Uber, which I guess is some sort of car service.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-23/new-york-doctor-who-treated-ebola-patients-guniea-rushed-bellevue-hospital-post-repo (*see CNN update)
Also according to CNN he started feeling crappy last night. Maybe while he was bowling?
I cannot believe a doctor would be so careless.
Ebola in NYC? Now the liberal elite will care.
“We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.“
why was this guy so arrogant he didn’t self-quarantine?
Doctors without Borders has lost other doctors, why would he think the WHO/CDC protocols made him safe?
cause blood spray spit and spew never get in da hair, ya just gotta cover your eyes
the CDC says so
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