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1 posted on 07/26/2014 7:34:38 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Ping...and prayers.


2 posted on 07/26/2014 7:36:12 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Citizen Zed

This, on the heels of a popular doctor in Sierra Leone catching the disease.

It is a dangerous disease. I know that health care workers are supposed to cover themselves completely with protective clothing, but I wonder if that is enough. Laboratory workers wear spacesuits to research the virus, maybe that is the only safe way to be around it.

I wish the best for this doctor.


3 posted on 07/26/2014 7:40:03 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Citizen Zed

Prayer’s up for this brave doctor.


4 posted on 07/26/2014 7:41:22 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Citizen Zed

Prayers for this doctor who devoted himself to bringing relief to the suffering. May God find a way to heal him.


6 posted on 07/26/2014 7:42:16 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Citizen Zed

Has the missing patient zero shown up yet either
at the Mexican border or escorted directly by DH”S”?


7 posted on 07/26/2014 7:44:05 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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i believe Dr. Kent Brantly is from ft. worth texas

i hope he’s under quarantine


8 posted on 07/26/2014 7:45:38 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Citizen Zed

More info:

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/kent-brantly-fort-worth-doctor-in-africa-tests-positive-for-ebola-virus-268750291.html


9 posted on 07/26/2014 7:50:13 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Citizen Zed

Mutation .... that’s a word they should become familiar with.


10 posted on 07/26/2014 7:53:04 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Stupid has consequences ... in healthcare it can be a fatal consequence!)
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To: Citizen Zed

I believe his wife, and two children just returned to TX a day or two ago to visit family. There’s no mention of her husband contracting the disease on the brantleybunch.com.

His wife, Amber assisted with meals at the hospital/ELWA.
His children are very young. The Brantleys are extremely devout Christians.


14 posted on 07/26/2014 8:04:05 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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Even more info, he’s married with 2 little kids.

http://www.carrollcrossroads.com/


15 posted on 07/26/2014 8:10:08 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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No good deed goes unpunished.

That’s really too bad.

I hope God is merciful to someone like this.


16 posted on 07/26/2014 8:17:41 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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“Dr. Kent Brantly, medical director at one of the country’s two treatment centers run by the organization, recognized his own symptoms and confined himself to an isolation ward.”

Good for him. I pray this guy gets better.


20 posted on 07/26/2014 8:44:59 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You cannot protect a child from child abuse by aborting it. Abortion *is* child abuse.)
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To: Citizen Zed

prayers up. Let God be with him.


21 posted on 07/26/2014 8:52:43 PM PDT by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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It was not immediately clear how he caught Ebola. The relief group's Melissa Strickland said that he had followed strict safety protocols when treating patients.

Let's hope ebola hasn't gone airborne.

24 posted on 07/26/2014 9:01:03 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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His immune system failed him.
Probably because it had to work WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY TOO HARD over there in lovely Africa.

He ought to come back to HealthyLand, USA and restore his immune system to something resembling normal.

26 posted on 07/26/2014 9:27:28 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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Prayers up for this doc.

He is in the Elwa hospital just outside Monrovia. I visited that hospital a few years ago, it seemed to be one of the few facilities of anykind that actually worked properly in that country.


31 posted on 07/27/2014 5:57:19 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is room for all of God's animals. Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I suspect Obama would love to fly him back to the United States... but the good doctor needs to stay right where he is...


32 posted on 07/27/2014 7:10:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: Citizen Zed; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

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...

34 posted on 07/27/2014 7:33:49 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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