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[BBC Update Ebola: London woman tests negative] Ebola crisis: Woman admitted to London hospital with
UK Mirror ^ | November 3 | Nina Massey

Posted on 11/03/2014 12:38:53 AM PST by PghBaldy

A woman admitted to a London hospital last night is being tested for the Ebola virus, it has been confirmed. The patient has a history of travel in west Africa and is described as suffering from a "haemorrhagic fever". It is thought she presented herself to St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, with a high temperature.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: africa; ebola; ebolasuspect; haemorrhagicfever; hemorrhagicfever; london; uk; westafrica
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This might be a first description I've seen of a suspected case as a "haemorrhagic fever". I suppose she could have Marburg...
1 posted on 11/03/2014 12:38:54 AM PST by PghBaldy
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To: PghBaldy

Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever.


2 posted on 11/03/2014 12:44:57 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Thank you. I know that. I was being facetious.


3 posted on 11/03/2014 12:45:56 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Sorry, I was just trying to be clear in case people did not know.


4 posted on 11/03/2014 12:47:43 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: PghBaldy

maybe not facetious. Just noting most suspect cases were described in a more flu-like way. There is Ebola and Marburg. Not sure what it will be when we are told it is a negative test result...


5 posted on 11/03/2014 12:48:24 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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No problemo. I should have put a /sarc or something there. I forget people can’t read my mind ;)


6 posted on 11/03/2014 12:49:38 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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I forget people can’t read my mind ;)

That is because you forget to take off your tin foil hat, before posting.

7 posted on 11/03/2014 1:15:17 AM PST by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: PghBaldy

expect officials to do anything they can to avoid saying ‘ebola’


8 posted on 11/03/2014 1:23:04 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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This could be Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, yellow fever, or any of a number of deadly hemorrhagic fevers, so there is no need to panic and assume it’s the one with a current, widespread outbreak. Also, I wouldn’t worry that she spread it on the bus before checking herself in at the hospital. I have it on the best authority (the Obama Administration) that hemorrhagic fevers cannot be spread on a bus. In fact, I’ve been thinking we should send some of our magic western buses to West Africa so that they can all live on buses, sleep on buses, and treat patients on buses, where there is no risk of spread.


9 posted on 11/03/2014 1:48:50 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Also, there is one rhabdovirus which yields a hemorrhagic fever...


10 posted on 11/03/2014 1:58:17 AM PST by dinodino
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To: PghBaldy
"I am the eye in the sky, looking at you-oo-oooh I can read your mind."
11 posted on 11/03/2014 2:15:53 AM PST by EEGator
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Marburg is not a disease we should take lightly...it can kill and get whole lot of people sick if exposed.


12 posted on 11/03/2014 2:45:33 AM PST by mdmathis6
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This is utterly ridiculous.

It’s not a hemorrhagic fever unless one is, you know, hemorrhaging. Otherwise, it’s just a fever.

There are many viruses that can cause a hemorrhagic fever. Measles, dengue, hanta, congo-crimean, Argentinian hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, typhus (actually a bacteria)...

I wonder if she has malaria. It’s very common in Africa. It could even be influenza. It’s the season for it.


13 posted on 11/03/2014 2:58:40 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Also, there is one rhabdovirus which yields a hemorrhagic fever...

You are up to date!

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1002924

"Deep sequencing was used to discover a novel rhabdovirus (Bas-Congo virus, or BASV) associated with a 2009 outbreak of 3 human cases of acute hemorrhagic fever in Mangala village, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa. The cases, presenting over a 3-week period, were characterized by abrupt disease onset, high fever, mucosal hemorrhage, and, in two patients, death within 3 days."

"BASV is an emerging human pathogen associated with acute hemorrhagic fever in Africa."

14 posted on 11/03/2014 3:04:07 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: PghBaldy

Would this woman happen to be a “guest worker”?


15 posted on 11/03/2014 4:28:19 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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This is utterly ridiculous. It’s not a hemorrhagic fever unless one is, you know, hemorrhaging. Otherwise, it’s just a fever.

There are many viruses that can cause a hemorrhagic fever. Measles, dengue, hanta, congo-crimean, Argentinian hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, typhus (actually a bacteria)... I wonder if she has malaria. It’s very common in Africa. It could even be influenza. It’s the season for it.

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.

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????

Yeah, I think if a hospital says she is suffering from a "hemorrhagic fever" and has traveled to West Africa they have every right to be very concerned and respond accordingly....whichever "hemorrhagic fever" it is.

16 posted on 11/03/2014 5:27:10 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Minutemen

South London = “Congo upon Thames”


17 posted on 11/03/2014 6:07:47 AM PST by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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Ebola: London woman tests negative.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29878939


18 posted on 11/03/2014 6:08:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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And there are about five different types of Ebola she could have.


19 posted on 11/03/2014 6:30:45 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Maybe it is the Hanta virus?


20 posted on 11/03/2014 6:30:59 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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