According to the news, this man was checked for symptoms before he boarded a flight. At that point, he had no fever.
That tells us that checking the temperatures of airline passengers does not stop the spread of this disease.
I’ll be praying for this man and everyone he came in contact with.
When he went to the hospital the first time, he never should’ve been sent home.
It stops someone who is symptomatic and contagious from boarding a flight. Of course, the disease can manifest at any time in a person who is incubating the disease.
Once symptoms appear, the person grows progressively more contagious.
Given that the CDC is pushing recommendations to every health facility in the country to watch out for travelers from West Africa, I'm betting staff at that hospital is undergoing a lot of remedial training about paying attention to travel histories. And admissions protocols are being reviewed right now. The patient should have been admitted the first time he showed up.
Yep - and I've had cases where I felt fine when I woke up to end up feeling ill and having a fever before lunch...false sense of security with the temp checks.
He reportedly disclosed that he’d come from Liberia but I doubt that he said he spent his hours there before he left shuttling a dying ebola victim to the hospital and back in a taxi.
If you don’t disclose things to a doctor, there is a chance you may be misdiagnosed.