5 Year Old Under Ebola Evaluation at a New York Hospital

WPTV ^ | 10/27/2014 | Ashley Fantz

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(CNN) -- A 5-year-old boy who recently returned from Ebola-stricken West Africa is under observation at New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center after experiencing a fever, Dr. Ram Raju said on CNN on Monday.

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The boy is undergoing an evaluation, which includes taking a thorough history of the child's recent travel with his family to West Africa and finding out if he's come into contact with people who have Ebola, said Raju, the president of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which oversees Bellevue.

CNN's Chris Cuomo asked why the child wasn't simply tested for Ebola right away, and Raju answered that officials need to establish first whether he had any contact with Ebola sufferers. He is with his mother, Raju said.

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That poor child...waiting on paperwork for proper diagnosis? Why withhold or delay this blood test when the child, a mere 5 years old, is already exhibiting 103 degree fever and vomiting given he just arrived from Guinea on Saturday?

[livius]

It’s all part of Obama’s game. That is, don’t make it look like anybody from that part of the world with those symptoms is automatically suspect - which they are - so therefore don’t automatically test them even when they have Ebola like symptoms.

Of course, in the case of a small child, this delay could be fatal. But Obama doesn’t care. With him, politicizing everything is the primary concern.

[RummyChick]

How expensive is this test? He has the symptoms. He is from a known Ebola area. What’s the hold up?

[lee martell]

His family was oblivious, ignorant or even negligent for having the boy stay in that Hot Zone. Who in that area of Africa does not know what’s going on? It could be that after the parents, now aware of their deadly oversight, have become desperate to get the best treatment for their boy,before he reaches that dreaded second stage of hemmorhage and internal organ failure.

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Bureaucracy kills.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(hat tip to: fivecatsandadog!)

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...

[Vermont Lt]

The first test takes four hours. They know by now.

[stboz]

How expensive is this test? He has the symptoms. He is from a known Ebola area. What’s the hold up?

Perhaps the pResident needs a sympathetic individual to keep our attention diverted. The test results could come with a lot of drama. Ok, bring out the kid.

Hope I'm wrong.

[Tennessee Nana]

CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked why the child wasn’t simply tested for Ebola right away, and Raju answered that officials need to establish first whether he had any contact with Ebola sufferers
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(Nana’s little cute hand waving in the air)

Ah what if he does have Ebola but his family don’t know if anyone hes been around the last couple of weeks had Ebola ???

someone at his school, someone in the street or a store,

or he might have been in a public restroom after an Ebola patient

or on a plane (remember it can show up in 2 days)

or in the airport, bus, etc..

what if one of his relatives in Africa had Ebola or was a carrier, unbeknown while the family were there..

the family do not really have to know for sure if someone he was around had Ebola..

I could get Ebola from a treadmill at the gym and not know who gave the disease to me..

theres 10,000+ members at my Y...

[Tennessee Nana]

if he didn’t have it we would be told by now..

oh Bret Briar just asked should the Bowling for Ebola guy have his Dr license pulled..

[Toespi]

“They know by now”

Which means he probably has Ebola. This morning they were saying the results would be available early afternoon. Buying time?

[Toespi]

Cavuto just said will know any minute about results.

[Tennessee Nana]

it takes a while to perfect a spin...

[Toespi]

I wonder if they aren’t getting a presser ready.

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ITV.com: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has confirmed doctors are awaiting test results on a five-year-old boy who was admitted to Bellevue Hospital with possible Ebola symptoms. The preliminary test results are expected in the next 12 hours, de Blasio said.

Earlier today, reports stated test results expected early this afternoon...sure sounds like they are buying time to score a plausible narrative.

"He had returned from a family trip to Guinea on Saturday night on a Moroccan Airlines flight which landed at JFK. He was screened but did not have a fever when he entered the U.S., CDC director, Dr Tom Frieden said on Monday. Five members of the child's family have been quarantined inside their apartment, law enforcement officials said, but told EMTs that they did not have contact with anyone infected with Ebola while in Guinea. Those under quarantine at the Bronx apartment are believed to be the boy's father, 52, a 15-year-old sister and two brothers, aged 13 and two years old, the Daily News reported. [snip]The boy's preliminary test results were expected later today, hospital officials said ."UKDailyMail

[Tennessee Nana]

yeppers

they would have rushed out and gloated the child did not have Ebola you rasiss TEA Baggers you or such like hours ago if he was Ebola free..

[tcrlaf]

Several uncomfirmed tweets in the last 20 minutes or so saying the kid is Ebola POSITIVE.

Won’t know for sure until some media catches up.

[Mercat]

I went to see my dermatologist this morning. They wanted to know whether I had traveled outside the country in the last 21 days. Wow. Never been asked that before.

[Tax-chick]

My dentist had a sign on the door saying, Don’t come in if you’ve been to Africa or have blah blah blah symptoms. Phone and reschedule your appointment at least a month later.

[jimbo123]

They had his test results hours ago and now they are getting their spin together.

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• WSJ: Bellevue Hospital Center has begun transferring patients from its intensive care unit to nearby NYU Langone Medical Center, a signal that caring for Ebola patientS could require changes in how New York City’s flagship public hospital operates.

  Two adult patients were first moved over the weekend and another two pediatric patients will be moved Monday, according to a joint statement from NYU Langone and Bellevue. Oct. 27, 2014 4:44 p.m. ET

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• NYDailyNews: Boy who traveled to West Africa being tested for Ebola at Bellevue Hospital, results expected Monday

  The child, 5, had a high fever when an Emergency Medical Service ambulance crew rushed him from his Bronx home to Bellevue Hospital about 9 p.m. Sunday. A source said the boy had recently been in Guinea, West Africa, but had not displayed any symptoms after going through a check at Kennedy Airport on Saturday. At Public School 195-196, where the boy attends kindergarten, city Department of Health workers were passing out 'Understanding Ebola' leaflets to assuage fears of students and their parents.

  Mayor de Blasio urged calm and said the boy was at Bellevue Hospital with his mother, who sources said is 40.

  “The child at first did not appear to have any symptoms,” the mayor said. “The fact that the mother shows no symptoms at all is a very encouraging sign.”

  The boy had been visiting relatives in Guinea for a month with his family and returned home on Moroccan Airlines early Saturday, landing at Kennedy Airport, sources said.

  When he was rushed to Bellevue on Sunday evening, he had a temperature of 102.7 degrees and bloodshot eyes, the sources said. The boy is in an isolation ward at Bellevue Hospital — the epicenter of the city’s response to the Ebola crisis.

  Officials have also quarantined the boy’s 52-year-old father, a sister, who is 15, and two brothers, ages 13 and 2, sources said.

  “As a further precaution,” a team of so-called “disease detectives” are now tracing all of the young boy’s contacts “to identify anyone who may be at potential risk,” an official said.

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  I wonder if the parents did not cancel their trip to West Africa because they would forfeit some of their long planned investment on the deal.

  If so, this needs to be addressed now!

  Just because the US govt. doesn't prevent unnecessary travel to the hot zone, SHOULD NOT INADVERTENTLY imply the "all clear" for travel anywhere near the Ebola hot zone to the low information traveler/voter. This IS a matter of life or death!