Posted on 10/01/2014 8:28:24 AM PDT by george76
DALLAS — Due to close contact with a patient diagnosed with the Ebola virus, a second person is under the close monitoring of health officials as a possible second patient, said the director of Dallas County's health department Wednesday morning in an interview with WFAA.
Zachary Thompson, the director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, says all those who've been in close contact with the diagnosed patient are being monitored as a precaution. However, Thompson pointed to one person in particular as a potential second case.
"Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents, the fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient,"
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The patient left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in Dallas to visit relatives the following day, said CDC director Tom Frieden. On September 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital.
"I have no doubt that we'll stop this in its tracks in the U.S.," Frieden said. "But I also have no doubt that — as long as the outbreak continues in Africa — we need to be on our guard."
Local health officials say the patient was in contact with several children before he was hospitalized. Thompson says each of those children have been kept home and are under precautionary monitoring.
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The three paramedics who transported the patient are temporarily off duty and among those under observation.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...
So now they will try to blame it on those mean "anti-immigrant" Republicans.
That's assuming that each person only infects 2 more. What if they infect 4 each? 1 to 2 to 8 to 32 to 128 to 512 to 2048 to 9096 to 36,384...
Yes, we did hear about some of those, and I remember talking with someone here about some suspected cases in India (major doom potential there), but nothing came of any of these. There were also some false alarms here too, one in NYC for sure that I heard about.
It’s hard to imagine that any died from Ebola in France, for example and we didn’t hear about it. And the Indian story must have been a false alarm too.
I’m sorry, we really need to stop travel from these countries. Like yesterday already.
Oh goodness! Thank you! I hadn’t seen this.
You are welcome!
P.S. That really makes me angry. Not only did he know he was exposed, he came here. He even knew that his own family would be infected, along with many strangers. Completely selfish.
He could not have come here if we had a freakin’ President who stopped all people who have been in hot zones from entering the US.
Ha! Our ridiculous president doesn’t care about American citizens in the least. All he wants is havoc and chaos.
Obama is doubling down. He wants them to come here.
EDV-68, chikungunyam and dengue fever for instance.
Here's a LIVE MAP (with scrolling list of new incidents and disease by disease detailed incident list) of these diseases for the entire planet.
Redistribution of the wealth by redistribution of large segments of the populace from around the world.
I heard it was down because it had a fever, with coughing and vomiting. It's up again because they have WIFI in the isolation ward.
Great response!
. . . . Check out # 79 .
Thanks, George.
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
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...
ping
Thanks for the link; your recommendation on viewing it. “Be prepared” Health/life BUMP!
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