(Your incubation mileage may vary)
Posted on 10/08/2014 1:27:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The second man with Ebola symptoms is reportedly a Dallas County sheriff's deputy who visited the apartment of first patient Thomas Duncan.
The individual, who has not been named, walked into a clinic in Frisco, Texas on Wednesday and told medics he had been in contact with first victim Mr Duncan and had not been wearing protective clothing.
The CareNow clinic was immediately placed in lock-down after the person appeared on Wednesday and was exhibiting signs of the deadly virus.
The CDC told MailOnline today that the person is not one of the 48 contacts being monitored, and there is no indication of any direct contact with the initial patient, Mr Duncan.
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In Liberia where he would have died, his body would be shoved into a taxi and taken to a grave site for shallow burial.
no problem, it certainly is no secret any longer.
2 to 21 days.
(Your incubation mileage may vary)
“The official waiting period is 42 days, or twice the 21 days.”
Very nice they let the friend (nurses aid) return to work at the old folks home 11 or so days after contact and helping Duncan.
IIRC, psychosomatic does not mean you’re not sickly, just means the cause is in your head.
House of CDC lying cards crumbling down ........
OK, if I were that deputy, I would NOT have walked into the clinic. I’d have gotten into my own car, and called them from the parking lot, asking what I should do, where I might go to expose the fewest people possible, preferably not to expose anyone not previously exposed.
Yep, walking into a clinic in that condition is clearly endangering others.
I feel that is not far off. People have not even begun to see division in this country yet.
The overplayed race card is very much tattered. When people start seeing their loved ones die from something attached to Africa and Obama like ebola the race card will cease to exist, gone in a puff of smoke. They will have no cards left to play.
I have been saying they won’t give up Obama but I’m sensing something else now. He won’t be able to lay this one down at someone else’s feet. HE OWNS IT. I feel a chill wind blowing over the bones of the Democrats election day.
However I will post this with one caveat, if this deputy is a white guy and the white guy survives the ebola well then deal a new deck of race cards. Like that bitch out in Missouri says if the deputy ain’t indicted for killing the “gentle giant” then they will exact their own justice and just murder people.
In “The Stand” it was a traveling salesman that did the most damage. That was the thing that sprang immediately to mind when I read your post.
Where is the evidence to conclude that it’s airborne?
Mr Duncan may well become a huge mass murderer for his actions. And now his family says he was not treated fairly. I’d say I’m at a loss for words, but I’ve actually got more then I can count. None fit to share in public!
Could have been as basic as some recent virus on the door knob for this poor man.
The showboating judge wasn’t actually in the apartment until some time after Duncan had left, so he presumably would have had to encounter some still-wet fluids or such.
But yes, I think it’s already been established that it can be spread airborne for a few feet.
Oh, wait, no. He was the runner in The Stand. Still, the comparison has already been made here and it is still holding water. Unlike some judge who thinks he's bulletproof [so to speak] but is instead an idiot who swallowed the lie whole in regards to communicability. It is always wise to err to caution in such matters. He'll learn, if he isn't affected.
Update at 4 p.m.:
Frisco officials say the chances are small that the ailing sheriff’s deputy who visited Thomas Eric Duncan’s apartment has Ebola.
“The risk is minimal,” said Frisco’s Mayor Maher Maso, but they are proceeding “with an abundance of caution.”
Frisco Fire Chief Mark Piland says the deputy is not among the 48 being monitored closely, and health officials are treating this “as a low-risk event.” He says the patient told CareNow workers he’d been in Duncan’s apartment.
Piland said the patient was “minus a few” symptoms of Ebola, but he exhibited enough to trigger the preliminary screening process.
The ambulance that carried Deputy Michael Monnig from an urgent care facility in Frisco to Dallas is being decontaminated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Denton County health officials are working through decontamination procedures for workers who came in contact with the sheriff’s deputy.
Piland says Frisco Fire-Rescue has been training for an Ebola case for several weeks and followed all CDC procedures.
I wonder how many folks this fellow has come into contact with.
Good thing you moved out to the woods. They let an officer who had physical contact with Duncan unprotected, remain on duty.
Wonder if Netflix has it. What disease did that salesman have? Got me all curious now. What I've been thinking is that we the non diseased are the walking dead now.
If I had it, I would high tail it up the D.C. and climb that fence, see how that BASTARD in Chief likes it.
People who emptied the trash bins for the apartment. I bet CDC didn’t think about them.
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