[silverleaf]

more and more and more incompetence by our “government”

why wouldn’t the CDC have alerted and educated EVERY health professional in the USA to quarantine ANYONE seeking treatment who just arrived from Liberia and is showing symptoms of “flu”?????????

Nigeria did a better job for their citizens

[redgolum]

Racism.

And who would admit to being from Liberia if that was the policy.

[Thud]

The Dallas Presbyterian admitting nurse on September 24 asked the victim if he'd been to Africa and he replied "yes". The hospital then screwed up and didn't pass her initial interview on to the examining physicians, who gave him some antibiotics and told him to go home.

It doesn't matter what a hospital's procedures are if that hospital's internal communications are screwed up.

[exDemMom]

why wouldn’t the CDC have alerted and educated EVERY health professional in the USA to quarantine ANYONE seeking treatment who just arrived from Liberia and is showing symptoms of “flu”?????????

Um, the CDC has been issuing guidelines about this for a while now. So has the TSA--if you are waiting to be screened before a flight, you get to watch TV screens telling you about the dangers of Ebola, dengue, and chikungunya if you travel to the affected countries. It is not the fault of the CDC that communication broke down in the hospital and the patient was not isolated immediately.