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Posted on 10/03/2014 7:20:25 AM PDT by Marie
DALLAS, Texas (CNN) — The Dallas County Health and Human Services director said Friday that the Ebola situation there is “under control.”
“It is contained,” Zachary Thompson told CNN’s “New Day” on Friday. The Ebola patient’s “family is being monitored. There is no outbreak. And so therefore everyone should ease their fears and allow public health officials … to respond to this issue.”
Four days after a Liberian man was diagnosed with Ebola in the Texas city, the apartment where he stayed has not been sanitized, a cleaning crew contracted to do the job said. Four other people are still living there.
Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil when he was hospitalized days after arrival from Liberia.
His partner and her family are in isolation at the apartment, which still has the sheets, clothes and towels Duncan used.
Before leaving his homeland, Duncan answered no to questions on whether he was exposed to the deadly virus, said Binyah Kesselly of the Liberia Airport Authority.
Duncan had been helping Ebola patients, including caring for one at a residence outside the capital of Monrovia, Liberian community leader Tugbeh Chieh Tugbeh said.
Cleanup delayed
As concerns grow over how many people he may have exposed to the deadly virus, a plan to sanitize the apartment was delayed late Thursday.
Brad Smith of the Cleaning Guys, which was hired to sanitize the apartment, said his company does not have the proper permits to transport hazardous waste on Texas highways. The company specializes in hazmat and biohazard cleaning services.
Smith said authorities sent his crew away late Thursday before they entered the apartment and told them to come back with proper permits. It’s unclear how long that will take.
“The permit is being processed through DOT (the Department of Transportation) because it is a special permit,” Smith said.
“This is a unique situation. Once awarded, our hazmat teams will be allowed back inside to do their jobs.”
Duncan was visiting his son and his son’s mother in Dallas, said Wilfred Smallwood, his half-brother.
The woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Louise, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper she is quarantined with one of her children under age 13 and two nephews in their 20s.
Louise used bleach to clean her apartment, “but it’s not clear to me how systematic the cleaning was,” Cooper said.
They’ve been holed up in the apartment since Duncan became ill.
This story makes me sick just reading it.
Whew. I feel much better now.
Thank God for government bureaucrats, eh? What would we do without tham.
Besides thrive, I mean.
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Sorry, boss. Back to the roofing crew for me.
This tragi-comedy by the government “workers” at all levels doesn’t inspire much confidence. What a sick joke the government is.
He’s a dead man.
Why they didn’t break out a 5 gallon drum of kerosine, let it soak in and have a little fire is beyond me.
How would they know there is no outbreak if the incubation period can be as long as 20 days?
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They are not dealing with biohazard material, they are dealing with BIOWEAPON material.... Should be under military control.
They are not dealing with biohazard material, they are dealing with BIOWEAPON material.... Should be under military control.
We are the stupidest people on earth.
We , taxpayers, will be paying these people to move and will be paying their rent if the rent is higher than the infected dump they live in
PLUS we are sending food to them
next we will be buying them an I6*
stupid us
LOL! Thanks for the good laugh. It was theraputic.
Laughs don’t come easy these days. Things are pretty bad out there, and getting worse by the day.
And that, my FRiend, is one huge assed assumption.
And frankly, I think the 'experts' are clueless on that aspect of this virus/virii.
I just heard a guy at work here in Plano, Tx. (global semiconductor design & manufacturing company) say he was on the same flight as this guy with ebola in Dallas... I’m not sure what to do... Do i tell my boss that i’m leaving for the day and work from home possibly for the next 3 weeks... I don’t want to panic but hells bells. Any advice from Freepers.
What we are seeing is a Third World response to a Third World problem. The CDC and Govt is not prepared to face the problem ahead. The CDC is also wrong when they say they can’t close the border. Saudi just did close their border to citizens of the effected countries and they made a good call. Closing the border does not mean not allowing our own citizens to return..we can deal with that, but we should cancel all those visa’s..otherwise we are going to have even more cases of medical tourism. This one case has shown just how unprepared and pc our CDC and Govt is.
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