[Marcella]

Just got the latest from Dallas TV channel. Got another look at the deputy sheriff when he got out of ambulance at hospital and he is a very overweight, older man. Remember he lives about 12 miles from my house. He woke up this morning feeling achy/tired and his stomach was hurting, so he went to a local clinic in a shopping center. He told them he had been in that apartment of the man who died, was inside about 30 min., serving a legal document to the family when the man was sick in the hospital.

This older, very overweight man could have eaten something that didn't agree with his stomach. His son said the dad did not have fever when he went to the clinic.

Hopefully, the man does not have Ebola. However, the clinic he went to is closed, it was being scrubbed down tonight, the doctors and nurses are staying alone until his Ebola test comes back in about two days. Another school, one of ours in Lewisville where I live, has been cleaned due to some kids, guess his grandkids he was around, go to that school and any friends he was around are waiting for the test results. The Superintendent of our Lewisville schools was on TV saying there is no reason to close schools. I think he was thinking, “not yet anyway” but didn't say that.

ONE PERSON IS TOO MANY WITH EBOLA. ONE PERSON CAN CAUSE THE DEATH OF EVERY PERSON IN A TOWN.

IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO TRACE EVERY PERSON HE TOUCHED AND DISINFECT EVERY DOOR KNOB HE TOUCHED OR EVERY ITEM HE TOUCHED IN A GROCERY STORE OR ANY OTHER PLACE WHERE HE WAS TOUCHING SOMETHING AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND EVERY PERSON WHO TOUCHED WHAT HE DID RIGHT AFTER HE TOUCHED IT.

Oh, yes, heard on local TV tonight, the body of Thomas Duncan who died of Ebola in Dallas, will be cremated and the ashes sealed up and buried.

[greeneyes]

Well, I hope he doesn't have it, but I think the CDC has been irresponsible by understating the danger - insisting that direct contact with the patient yada yada is needed.

That judge who went into the house unprotected, stated that the CDC had assured him that it was safe to do the transfer as he did.

I am glad that the county authorities in this case are seeming to treat it a bit more seriously. Remember that the 72 hr. test is the one that is definitive.

Dr. Brantly’s first test came back negative, but the one that took 72 hrs was positive. There's been lots of examples in the outbreak region where there were false negatives, and the people went home and continued to spread the disease, then came back to the hospital, because they got so much worse.

[palmer]

It is not likely that the deputy has Ebola. The close contacts spent much more time and had earlier contact with Duncan and are being monitored for symtpoms. They would probably show something by now, it is day 11. Not completely out of the woods, but in the homestretch.