Hospital testing patient for Ebola

Press Association ^ | 1/15/2015 31 minutes ago | Press Association

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• Hospital testing patient for Ebola

  A patient is undergoing hospital tests after returning from Ebola-hit West Africa.

  The patient, who according to reports is a woman, is being screened for infection at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital.

  The person was admitted to the infectious diseases unit after reporting a raised temperature, NHS Lothian said.

  Melanie Johnson, director of unscheduled care at the health board, said: "A patient who recently returned to Scotland from West Africa has been admitted to our Regional Infectious Diseases Unit (RIDU) at the Western General Hospital after they reported a raised temperature.

  "As a precautionary measure, and in line with agreed procedures, the patient will be screened for possible infections and will be kept in isolation.

  "We have robust systems in place to manage patients with suspected infectious diseases and follow agreed and tested national guidelines."

  The suspected Ebola case in Edinburgh comes around 24 hours after Northampton General Hospital said it was treating a possible case.

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[CincyRichieRich]

What of the soldier who was in W Africa who died on Ft Hood base???

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Dead Fort Hood soldier tests negative for Ebola

[UCANSEE2]

I read during a search yesterday that the autopsy was being delayed for two weeks.

I just found it again.

Soldier Found Dead In Yard Of Home Identified; Autopsy Delayed
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/288431181.html

[UCANSEE2]

Here is a link (because it's on gannett) to his picture.

Spc. Kendrick Vernell Sneed

[piytar]

You won’t see this in the MSM:

Why hasn’t Ebola taken off in the US? Government action? Better general health? Better medical facilities?

No, no, and no. (The last two are statements of fact, namely we have better general health and medical facilities. That said, when I say, “No,” I am referring to why we don’t see an Ebola pandemic here.)

Ebola is a blood disease. Africans have a higher genetic predisposition for another blood disease, namely sickle cell anemia. The prevalence of malaria also appears to be a significant risk factor.

BTW, Africa, you can thank democrat/socialist/left for not having large supplies of DDT at your disposal to kill mosquitos. Probably the largest genocide ever perpetrated by the left was banning use of DDT in the US, which resulted in vastly lower supplies worldwide. The death toll of that one act due to spreading malaria has exceeded the death toll of WWII. (Yes, Nixon issued the order, but it was under pressure from the left.)

While some blacks in America also share that genetic predisposition, the prevalence is far lower here than there. A lot of the “African American” population in America also includes some non-black ancestry, lessening their susceptibility.

We also have a much smaller population of carrier animals (i.e., certain bats that are prevalent in Africa).

Ergo, our population simply is not as susceptible to Ebola. The reservoir population of infected people and carrier animals is also far smaller.

Yes, it is a racist disease, as in a particular race is far more susceptible to it.

Now, can non-Africans dies from Ebola? Of course. But the host population is nowhere near as dense, hence the epidemiology is far more favorable here.

At least that is what I have been told from some people I know who are “boots on the ground” in Africa.

So what should the governments in Africa do? (1) Bring back DDT to gut the mosquito population and thus curtail malaria. (2) Improve basic medical facilities and treatment of sickle cell anemia. Of course, the corrupt governments there won’t make much money doing that, and they can skim billion$ from relief funds, so neither will occur. Sigh.

[Jim Noble]

We don’t handle dead bodies and we don’t eat fruit bats.

[piytar]

Points well taken.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[Jim Noble]

There’s plenty of precedent for variations in racial vulnerability to disease-tuberculosis and coccidioidomycosis are two well-known examples.

But there’s no Ebola epidemic in the West because conditions that facilitate transmission do not exist AND, so far, we have avoided importing large numbers of cases.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!

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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...