What? Working to rule it out? What (the F...) about determining if it is an active case? And, we have people running around the states that just flew in from the center of the Ebola outbreak?
What am I missing here?
Awww crap. New Mexico. That’s getting close.
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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...
I just went to United Airlines website and tried to get a hypothetical flight to Lagos, Nigeria. Looks the flights are still available.
I think Delta may still be vectoring folks in, too. Not sure.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
My cousin’s little boy woke up today with all of those symptoms but he hadn’t been to Sierra Leone. He started back at school this week and has strep. Ugh. But you never know. He does live in the home town of the US Ebola doc.
I was at an elementary school this week and was talking to a child. I started walking toward her when she said, “DONT STEP THERE. there’s some throw up down there.” I couldn’t see it. It must’ve been already mopped up but still wet. The janitor was standing right there and said, “oh yeah. Walk around that area.” I had been talking to him and distracted him from his mission of keeping everyone away from the spot. Anywho, all I could think about was Ebola in schools after that. What a horror that would be!
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Life/health/prepare BUMP!
She’s the first of many who flew back to the states. Bet we see a lot more “suspected” cases popping up in the coming days.
The logic escapes me. Yes I know there are lots of tropical diseases that have similar symptoms.
Does the CDC know those other diseases breaking out at this moment from that area (Africa I mean)?
If you have [A B C D E] 5 suspects, A showed up multiple times and the others not so much, isn’t it simpler to test for A right away, instead of trying to eliminate B C D E as suspects?
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