Posted on 10/18/2014 7:36:43 PM PDT by richardskeet
GALVESTON, Texas - A helicopter met up with a cruise ship with a Dallas health care worker aboard who is being monitored for signs of Ebola in order to take a blood sample for testing prior to the ship's arrival Sunday in Galveston.
Carnival Cruise Lines released a statement Saturday which read, "Today we were advised by Texas health officials that they felt it was necessary for the health care worker currently on Carnival Magic to submit a blood sample for testing prior to the ship's arrival in Galveston tomorrow morning. As a result, a helicopter rendezvoused with the ship late this afternoon to facilitate the transfer of the sample.
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“Seems like a lot of money to spend, for a blood sample, if she is not showing symptoms. The ship docks tomorrow morning.”
I guess I’m of the opposite opinion; I’m wondering why a chopper didn’t fly out to the ship to take blood samples when this first came up. whether the passenger in question is infected or not would have been answered by now.
Supposedly the ship docked at 6AM this morning.........
......anyone getting off?.....or are they still waiting for results of blood test......and how to spin it
not in belize, on the helicopter that landed on the boat to take her blood...why didnt they just take her
Good question!
One would think if they did this out of protocol, and she was showing no symptoms......take her with them!
However, if she was indeed symptomatic.......they would have drawn blood under extreme conditions and NOT taken her with them.
I just read CNN said the cruise pasenger has been cleared and she and her partner has been allowed to leave ship......FWIW
The unidentified woman who is being monitored disembarked the Carnival Magic with her husband shortly after the ship returned to Galveston, Texas about 6AM and the couple drove themselves home.
Officials said the woman poses no risk because she has shown no signs of illness for 19 days and has voluntarily self-quarantined on the cruise ship.
There have been no restrictions placed on other passengers aboard the ship, officials said.
The unidentified woman who is being monitored disembarked the Carnival Magic with her husband shortly after the ship returned to Galveston, Texas about 6AM and the couple drove themselves home.
Officials said the woman poses no risk because she has shown no signs of illness for 19 days and has voluntarily self-quarantined on the cruise ship.
There have been no restrictions placed on other passengers aboard the ship, officials said.
Ha....someone on another thread quipped that:
Symptom of Ebola is instantaneous use of mass transport...
(and was voted "post of the day")
Welcome to FR. Are you onboard the ship? If so, what instructions have you gotten from the crew?
Wait up...she was traveling with her husband......
so there must be two potential Ebola cases....
and if the lovely lady nurse was not feeling well and was resting in the cabin....
....I hope the spouse was not out and "fooling around"
it would be safer to take her than take her blood
It looked like the intelligent thing to do. Just because she was a US Citizen these lesser countries should just say “Yes Sir, Masser”?
Oh, good! I am glad she is OK.
Thanks for the ping!
So we can stop ship full of Americans from docking, but not flights from Liberia.
Go figure.
The cost of a chopper flight to get a blood sample is like a fart in a whirlwind compared to the other costs that have been and will be thrown around that we are paying for. Right now, I pray that all this costs us is money. But if you want to count the dollars already consider:
Free treatment for the alien Thomas E. Duncan who invaded our country on false pretenses... More than $500,000
Frontier Airlines stock damage by the nurse who irresponsibly flew while under “voluntary” quarantine... no telling
Show air ambulance flights for the two nurses to Bethesda and Emory?
The terror that more than 1000 people are feeling right now as they wait to see if they are going to become ill and stand a 70% chance of horrible death if they do become sick with Ebola?
The disruption, confusion and terror a whole nation is feeling right now over Ebola?
If I were a terrorist who hated the United States I’d be feeling pretty smug right now. I might even go out and enjoy a fine fall day and play a few rounds of golf in celebration of my good fortune and cunning.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
I heard that passengers are asked if they have been exposed to Ebola before they go on the ship. Don’t know if true.
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Its a new policy
all the cruise lines will be asking from now on...
BTW these “healthcare workers” who were expose3d to Duncan who are travelling by public plane, bus, ship should lose their nurses etc licences..
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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