Posted on 11/17/2014 9:48:47 AM PST by tcrlaf
Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon who was diagnosed with Ebola in Sierra Leone and flown to Nebraska over the weekend for treatment, has died, hospital officials said Monday.
Salia, 44, became the second person to die of the disease in the United States. Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia and traveled to Dallas, died last month.
Salia landed Saturday in Omaha. He was the 10th patient to be treated on American soil and the third at Nebraska Medical Center. Hospital officials had said that he was perhaps sicker than any other patient flown to the United States from West Africa
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we should not be bringing them here
He was able to get so sick because his first Ebola screen cleared him.
Apparently, getting cleared means they don’t bother to screen you again for, like, a week. Even if you continue to show symptoms.
The radio reports I have heard today make no mention of the false positive that killed him.
I wrote “false positive” above, but I meant “false negative”, I think.
Seems like bringing them here doesn’t really help.
President Obama, addressing the ebola outbreak September 16, 2014 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta:
“First and foremost, I want the American people to know that our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. We’ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn’t get on a plane for the United States. IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT SOMEONE WITH EBOLA DOES REACH OUR SHORES, we’ve taken new measures so that we’re prepared here at home. We’re working to help flight crews identify people who are sick, and more labs across our country now have the capacity to quickly test for the virus. We’re working with hospitals to make sure that they are prepared, and to ensure that our doctors, our nurses and our medical staff are trained, are ready, and are able to deal with a possible case safely.”
Barak Obama
He was on deaths door when he was brought here. He was almost certainly going to die wherever they deposited him.
I guess this moron can’t grasp that flight crews and many support personnel risk high exposure problems if someone sneaks through. It just doesn’t dawn on him that stopping flights for a few months could save many lives.
Either that or even worse, it does dawn on him and he either doesn’t give a damn, or he rather relishes the idea.
To the music of Day O:
If you gonna get sick
You better come to Dallas
Daylight come and he feels real bad
Daylight come and he feels real bad
See the Ebola man pukin’ in the garbage can
Daylight come and he feels real bad
Daylight come and he feels real bad
DemocRat say you can’t catch Ebola
Snakeman clay Jenkins prove it just so
Daylight come and they kill the masses
DemocRats lie and the media passes......
Thanks to the 2nd amendment, they can’t take us with conventional means. Ergo they have to resort to bio or chem warfare.
Well, that and flooding our nation with people who are not the slightest bit interested in our founding concepts.
He seems to have been a good man, it is a loss.
Agreed. Problem is, we have dumb and dumber in charge.
I never know whether to admire the courage of these doctors or question their sanity. I’m sorry he lost his life but when you race into the arms of dangers, some aren’t going to survive. I suppose I feel sorriest for his family. 44 is so young.
I am surprised that NBC announced this. Did the “reporter” say that this is the only case in the United States so not to worry as per the regimes orders?
Obama Administration Statement: The US is again ebola free!!!
Salia, a Sierra Leone citizen who was a permanent resident of the U.S. and lived in Maryland, first showed Ebola symptoms on Nov. 6 but tested negative for the virus. He eventually tested positive on Monday. Smith called the initial test results "not unusual."
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/11/17/surgeon-who-contracted-ebola-virus-in-sierra-leone-dies-at-nebraska-hospital/
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This was the whole point with quarantining nurse Kaci Hickox.
Even though no virus showed up in Hickox's initial blood work, the Maine CDC official felt that she had been tested for Ebola too early......that it was possible the virus could still show up during the period of incubation. The Maine CDC official was especially concerned after learning that Hickox's room mate tested positive for Ebola.
Heard on the radio (and see it in the article) that’s he’s the 10th person in the US with ebola. I stopped hearing about cases after the 7th.
A good man. In the video, he states that he felt called by God to help. Rest in peace, Dr. Salia.
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