Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital

Reuters ^ | October 1, 2014 | Lisa Maria Garza

[2ndDivisionVet]

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Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.

"His whole family was screaming. He got outside and he was throwing up all over the place," resident Mesud Osmanovic, 21, said on Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene before the man was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday where he is in serious condition.

The hospital cited the man's privacy as the reason for not identifying him, but the New York Times gave his name as Thomas Eric Duncan....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Lovely.

[hal ogen]

Did he do that when he realized that Clown Prince nobama is the president of the US?

[humblegunner]

Don’t get any on ya.

[dforest]

I wonder what happens if flies land on the food and the land on peoples food?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Umm, death?

[jimbo123]

[Darksheare]

“I’m Brak Ubama, and I approve of this virus!” -and obviously he does.

[Red_Devil 232]

Yep! Just great! I wonder whose dog did the clean up and came home to lick his owner?

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Delta Dawn]

I am confident that the CDC is on this and are vectoring every possible fly that could have come in contact with the spillage...

[GraceG]

[ I wonder what happens if flies land on the food and the land on peoples food? ]

BINGO!

[Delta Dawn]

If flies have the virus on them, does this make the virus, airborne?

[FamiliarFace]

Oh my!

[Textide]

I will not reveal whether he was a US citizen, nor will I reveal any flight information.

[fatima]

Bump.

[dforest]

I guess in a way it would!

[NativeSon]

Highly infectious

[driftdiver]

But it can’t happen here in america.

[driftdiver]

The one bit of good news is uv does kill it. So the vomit outside is probably less of a concern then the inside house that people almost certainly came into contact with.

[steve86]

I wonder what happens if flies land on the food and the land on peoples food?

That kind of imaginative vector is a theoretical possibility but actual transmission is generally much more direct and obvious. Some seeming possibilities, though, like mosquito-borne Ebola, definitely don't seem to happen.