Posted on 10/05/2014 2:50:24 PM PDT by knak
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- A sick person under the age of 18 who traveled to the U.S. from West Africa has been admitted to two South Florida hospitals Sunday, sources said.
Doctors have indicated they are prepared if he turns out to have Ebola, but officials said this is not believed to be the case.
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I thought Soccer Moms are now Safety Moms? Whatever, their hero isn’t protecting them.
Heck no, and it is so tied to “immigration” and “borders”, and even to the fact that not all cultures and nations are equal.
This is something that we would have been looking from a distance, before the 1965 Immigration Act kicked in.
I think there were 3legs of the flight.
Under the age of 18 = child?
Six years old is a child.
Sixteen is a teen.
Public education on display.
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...
So more people were exposed? Oy!
I've noticed typical younger RNs aren't exactly beacons of erudition. OTOH, some of the ARNPs are pretty bright. And some of the older RNs are really, really knowledgeable.
Geez, is there not one hospital that isn’t reading off the same meme?
'Diversity' is going to kill us.
Here’s another for your thread form Delaware now.
A patient with Ebola-like symptoms is being tested for the deadly virus at a Delaware hospital, Fox News confirmed Sunday.
A nurse at Bayhealth Kent General Hospital in Dover confirmed to Fox News that a patient exhibiting Ebola symptoms has been placed in isolation in the hospital and is being tested for the deadly virus, but did not give any more detail.
The only confirmed U.S. Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital.
Also Sunday, officials said after several hours of searching they located a homeless man who was sought because of possible contact with Duncan.
The person is not considered to be one of the 10 people who definitely had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, who is in critical condition at a Dallas hospital. However, he is part of a larger group of 38 people who may have been around Duncan when he was showing symptoms of the disease, officials said.
He was found a few hours after officials on Sunday morning announced he was missing, Dallas city spokeswoman Sana Syed said.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins called the man, whom he didn’t identify, a “low-risk individual.” Authorities had monitored him a day earlier but want to take his temperature regularly to make sure he doesn’t have a fever, a possible symptom of Ebola infection.
Jenkins said the man would receive a mental health evaluation at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. The man will eventually be placed in housing that give allow health workers direct access to him daily. Syed said it was unlikely that the man would be placed in a homeless shelter.
The group of 10 people is composed of seven health care workers and three family members or community contacts, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 800 calls and emails are coming in daily to the CDC on Ebola, up from about 50 to 100 before Duncan was diagnosed on Tuesday, Frieden said. Frieden said he is scheduled to brief President Barack Obama on Monday.
Duncan has been hospitalized at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital for one week and was listed Sunday in critical condition. Frieden said Sunday that he was aware that Duncan’s health had “taken a turn for the worse,” but he declined to say what signs of poor health Duncan had shown.
Four members of a family who hosted Duncan in their northeast Dallas apartment are under isolation, though they have not shown symptoms of infection.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
It’s cheaper to fly here for free medical care than to stay in Africa. Seems we pay all these professionals to protect ‘the world’... not us.
Rush says that 'soccer moms' have become 'security moms' and are streaming to the Republicans.
Brussells, Dulles(DC), Dallas.
Visiting? As in, he's planning to go back to West Africa?
Thanks for the ping!
Yikes :(
Is this really true???
Seems we pay all these professionals to protect ‘the world’... not us.
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