[BBC Update Ebola: London woman tests negative] Ebola crisis: Woman admitted to London hospital with

UK Mirror ^ | November 3 | Nina Massey

[BunnySlippers]

BTW, the woman in Oregon that thought she had ebola ... does NOT have ebola.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, Pig Pen? Negatory, Pig Pen; you’re still too close.”

[PghBaldy]

Thank you. It is amazing and disturbing how many not quite healthy people (who all seem to be free from Ebola) are coming into this country.

[Resettozero]

Marburg is not a disease we should take lightly.

Public school nurses and teachers in my part of the South are VERY antsy about Marburg. Administrators seem oblivious.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

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If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

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

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!

[exDemMom]

Gee, if the hospital says it is a hemorrhagic fever then just maybe she is bleeding, otherwise they would just say we are watching her because of her travels in an abundance of caution as other hospitals around the world have.

I was criticizing the characterization of the illness as a "hemorrhagic fever." I do not know, but I suspect that either the reporter who wrote the piece injected the word "hemorrhagic" for extra drama, or the hospital spokesperson (who is almost certainly not medically trained) used that word out of ignorance. In either case, I seriously doubt the woman was hemorrhaging.

Do you even understand how many diseases on your list are quarantine diseases not to mention the list from the post you were putting down????

Actually, I do understand that. I get paid to know this stuff.