Ping...
Now the question is, if this patient is infected, how many have been infected by this patient?
the first Nigerian case was Dr. Sawyer. I wonder how this patient fits into the picture?
There is a little girl in my daughter’s daycare who went to Africa for the summer, now I am worried about her and what she might come back with...
Not counting all those who didn't show up to have their names officially put on the list. My, my how we've come in mere hours from no way, no how it's going to come this way to it is inevitable.
There are hundreds of arrivals from West Africa and Central Africa a week with fever.
I agree that they all will need to be screened. I will tell you that the capacity to “rule out” Ebola is very, very limited.
The need to test hundreds of people (most of whom or all of whom don’t have it) is going to cause major dislocations, fairly soon.
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...
Why in heaven’s name are countries not barring flights from locations where this disease is known to be running rampant?