Posted on 10/27/2014 6:46:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A 5-year-old boy showing possible symptoms of Ebola was being checked at a New York City hospital for the virus, the New York Post reported Monday. The boy, who was vomiting and had a fever, returned over the weekend from Guinea, one of the West African countries where Ebola has killed thousands of people since earlier this year.
The boy had a 103-degree fever, a neighbor told the Post. They said EMS workers wearing hazmat suits carried the child from his home in the Bronx. “He looked weak,” the neighbor said. “He was really, really out of it.”
The 5-year-old’s family, who also returned from Guinea on Saturday night, were being quarantined inside their home. The boy is being watched at Bellevue Hospital, the same facility treating Dr. Craig Spencer, who was diagnosed with Ebola last week after treating virus patients in West Africa. Spencer is in serious but stable condition, according to WNYW.
The quarantine for the boy’s family was part of a plan instituted by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who held a joint news conference with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie after Spencer was diagnosed with Ebola. Cuomo is allowing asymptomatic family members to be quarantined in their homes. Christie followed suit, but he's forcing Kaci Hickox, a Maine nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, to be under quarantine at a New Jersey hospital.
Hickox, who isn’t displaying any Ebola symptoms, slammed Christie’s order and is filing a lawsuit against the quarantine. “If he knew anything about Ebola he would know that asymptomatic people are not infectious,” she told CNN.
The governors’ quarantine plans were criticized by an unnamed Obama administration official who told the New York Times that the protocols weren’t rooted in science.
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“Hickox, who isn’t displaying any Ebola symptoms, slammed Christie’s order and is filing a lawsuit against the quarantine. “If he knew anything about Ebola he would know that asymptomatic people are not infectious,” she told CNN.”
Its better that she be out in public when she develops symptoms then. Perhaps we should let the miserable bi*** ride the subway and go bowling before she comes down with it.
Of course if can be spread in the early stages but less likely until you’re spewing it out all over the place from both ends. Notice they rarely admit that 13% don’t present a fever. With typical Ebola, 30-50% go hemorrhagic but with this one, 18% do. Now, remind me again about the obvious symptoms? Uh huh, the CDC is in full cya mode because they know full well early testing isn’t 100% fool proof. With bans, they’ll have to explain their lies when cases pop up. Without bans, well, it’s just the natural course and the buck gets passed.
Some have posted that this was a set up—that her fever disappeared right away and that her employment with CDC is no longer on the website.
Just doing a search on whitepages.com doesn’t show any address for her in Maine, only PO Boxes in Texas and Las Vegas. Hmmm. . .
“If he knew anything about Ebola he would know that asymptomatic people are not infectious,” she told CNN.”
If she knew anything then she would know that is another lie created by officials to prevent panic. Just because the virus is more likely to shed after symptoms does not mean that it is not present in body fluids before symptoms. It is just present at a lower rate. And it only takes one cell of this virus to GET YOU.
I suspect it is cultural. It is quite possible that they went to Guinea to bond with family and attend the funeral of a respected elder who had died of Ebola. Not going would have been a rejection of their culture. It's racist to claim that keeping a child alive is a more important value than a culturally-sensitive funeral in which the 5 y/o from America gets to help wash the body of a relative (or that's how Obama sees it in his world where all cultures are equally valid, including those that kill children or allow them to die of completely avoidable diseases).
Just read (NY Post this AM) that this poor kid was sent out to play with a whole bunch of neighbor kids after he arrived from the airport. I don’t want to think about what might happen if he does have Ebola.
There’s some bad reporting on this story. The NY Post story just mentioned the boy just developed a fever this morning. All the stories last night indicated he had a high fever upon admittance to Belleview. So, what’s the truth here? Anyone know??
To visit the Homeland...
Right up until they become symptomatic...
should have left him there then
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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