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New Details About Ebola In Dallas Revealed In CDC Report
HuffPo ^ | 11/14/2014 3:47PM EST on LiveScience | Rachael Rettner

Posted on 11/15/2014 7:48:26 AM PST by wtd

More details of exactly what happened in Dallas when three people there -- a Liberian man and two nurses -- were infected with Ebola are revealed today (Nov. 14) in a new report.

One of the new details is that 12 people who had contact with one or more of the Ebola patients were tested for the virus during their 21-day monitoring periods, because these 12 individuals developed a fever or other symptoms that can occur with the disease, according to the report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, none these people actually had Ebola.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: dallas; details; ebola
New Details About Ebola In Dallas Revealed In CDC Report

More details of exactly what happened in Dallas when three people there -- a Liberian man and two nurses -- were infected with Ebola are revealed today (Nov. 14) in a new report. One of the new details is that 12 people who had contact with one or more of the Ebola patients were tested for the virus during their 21-day monitoring periods, because these 12 individuals developed a fever or other symptoms that can occur with the disease, according to the report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, none these people actually had Ebola.

In addition, of the nearly 150 Dallas health care workers who were monitored daily for symptoms of Ebola, 20 volunteered to quarantine themselves for the three-week monitoring period, the report said. The report also gave the age of the first Ebola patient in Dallas — Thomas Eric Duncan — as 45. Previous reports had given his age as 42.

The age given in the new report came from Duncan's medical records, after officials determined this was the most reliable source of information about his age, a CDC representative confirmed to Live Science. [Where Did Ebola Come From?]

Duncan traveled from Liberia to the United States in September to visit his family. But he became ill with a fever and abdominal pain, and was treated in the emergency department of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 25. He was released, because he was not then suspected of having Ebola. But he returned to the hospital three days later, when he tested positive for the virus. He was treated in an isolation unit at the hospital, but died Oct. 8.

Health officials originally monitored 48 people in Dallas who had contact with Duncan, including 17 people in the community, 10 people who rode in the same ambulance as Duncan before it was cleaned, and 21 health care workers who did not wear adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) when they had contact with Duncan after he first arrived at the hospital on Sept. 25.

But after two nurses — Nina Pham and Amber Vinson — tested positive for Ebola, the number of people monitored was expanded to include 147 health care workers who had contact with Duncan, even if they were wearing PPE.

Pham and Vinson did use PPE in their care of Duncan, the report said.

By Nov. 7, everyone in Dallas who was being monitored for Ebola symptoms had passed through the 21-day monitoring period.


1 posted on 11/15/2014 7:48:26 AM PST by wtd
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To: wtd; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
It's going to be a LLLOOOONNNNGGGG flu season!

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


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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.

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2 posted on 11/15/2014 7:50:21 AM PST by null and void (If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.)
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To: null and void

How do you like my newest tagline?


3 posted on 11/15/2014 8:10:25 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Republican. Because we can´t all be on Welfare.)
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To: Shimmer1

I like it, but you need to fix the apostrophe.


4 posted on 11/15/2014 8:26:04 AM PST by null and void (If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.)
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To: null and void

Oh dear! How do I fix that?


5 posted on 11/15/2014 8:54:31 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Republican. Because we can´t all be on Welfare.)
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To: Shimmer1

Just type it in. For some reason it tends to do that when stuff is copied and pasted into a tagline.


6 posted on 11/15/2014 9:00:43 AM PST by null and void (If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.)
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To: Shimmer1

Just type it in. For some reason it tends to do that when stuff is copied and pasted into a tagline.


7 posted on 11/15/2014 9:00:44 AM PST by null and void (If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.)
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To: null and void

But I repeat myself...


8 posted on 11/15/2014 9:01:10 AM PST by null and void (If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.)
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To: null and void

Oh. Easy enough


9 posted on 11/15/2014 9:01:35 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Republican. Because we can't all be on welfare.)
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To: Shimmer1

Yeah. Once you know the secret!


10 posted on 11/15/2014 9:07:09 AM PST by null and void (I'm not afraid of Joe)
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Ping...

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

11 posted on 11/16/2014 1:32:10 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: wtd

So there definitely was a lid on the news.


12 posted on 11/16/2014 1:05:34 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


13 posted on 11/16/2014 9:24:21 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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