Posted on 10/23/2014 5:33:03 PM PDT by bryan999
A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the Ebola virus Thursday, becoming the city’s first diagnosed case.
The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday and placed in isolation while health care workers spread out across the city to trace anyone he might have come into contact with in recent days. A further test will be conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control to confirm the initial test.
While officials have said they expected isolated cases of the disease to arrive in New York eventually, and had been preparing for this moment for months, the first case highlighted the challenges surrounding containment of the virus, especially in a crowded metropolis.
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...”lying through her teeth, talking about how good the doc did at self-isolation”...
They’re all under “orders” now....lies or not the “message” is set.
Cuomo flipped sides on his attitude about Ebola a couple of days ago. I can’t help but wonder if they held the news about this guy long enough for Cuomo to “get out in front of it.”
And he rode the subway the night before. I guess we are about to find out what it means that you can give it but not get it.
Well, as long as they assured him, I guess he has no worries.............
If we could do it to astronauts to protect the rest of us from possible lunar germs, why can’t we do it to people who work with a known disease? Mistakes happen, accidents happen, and we are not really 100 percent sure about a lot of information regarding Ebola, and it doesn’t sound too certain on how it spreads from person to person.
I had a 103 fever. I was feeling cold in the heat of July. I could walk, but I did feel achy and such. Thankfully we figured out that I was in the early stages of Lyme disease and got it treated before I got any real damage.
who still believes the government
Plenty of white folks live in Harlem now. Technically, this guy was in Hamilton Heights (btwn Harlem and Washington Heights). It’s not far from Columbia Presbyterian hospital, where I believe this doctor worked before heading to Africa.
Let’s see. I have been handling Ebola patients. Let’s go someplace, that just in case, if I contract the disease, I can keep the rest of humanity safe. I got it! Let’s go bowling!
. . . He could have been symptomatic while in the bowling alley. 
.. . . He could have been symptomatic at dinner: 
He could have been symptomatic in the cab: 
But, it's all cool, Obama's political hack at the CDC said you can't get Ebola on a bus, but you can transmit it! Hopey Changey!!!
I think the worst thing I ever had was scarlet fever, I’m the only person I know who’s had it.
I was very young when I had it, not in school or anything. My mother must have had to go somewhere and my grandmother was watching me.
I remember this because I remember my mother coming in, wearing her racoon coat which I always loved (it stayed cold and I just loved that) and she had bought me some kind of little tea set, to cheer me up I suppose.
I remember her showing it to me and me thinking: my mom bought this for me to cheer me up, gosh I love that coat of hers.....
And then just turning away and feeling so unbelievably bad and not caring about anything on this earth including tea sets and fur coats.
“But it isn’t really spreading. These are isolated incidents caused by the patients”
Bovine excrement...
This is now the SECOND case of Airborne Ebola.
They both got here by plane.
I just think this has got to be by droplet/airborne contact....
You were lucky, in a way, that you felt so bad. That Lyme disease can be very insidious.
They are all violating the “three feet rule” or is it nine feet?
It is his girlfriend and two friends. She is in the hospital in isolation and the other two I think are in quarantine.
No mention at all about the ambulance drivers, because they said that they have drilled on this and been practicing since August.
Concur on all points. Well said.
I’d employ the ten foot pole rule...
He was in Belgium from the 12 and then re-embarked to home on the 14.
Was he trying to be cute by not having a connecting flight.
Belgium, the Ebola hub.
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