Did this person have contact with Duncan?
If this “health care worker” had no contact with Duncan, then how did he/she contract the virus?
Yikes, I was really hoping we had dodged a bullet with Duncan.
Duncan showed symptoms 9 days after he was thought to be exposed.
This healthcare worker could have been exposed anytime from the 24th when Duncan first presented to the hospital to October 8th when he died. Today’s the 12th. So anywhere from 4 to 19 days. Probably the latter. As greater precautions would have been taken after the 19th.
With all the missteps that went on in Dallas, I figured there would be other cases. I’m waiting for the county judge to test positive.
PING!
Now we have to be worried if the person is black or white and dies or survives...
Thank you Comrade Obola™
Time to BAN FLIGHTS!
Just add 3 weeks to Thomas Duncan’s death.
At that point we will have a better understanding of how bad Ebola could be.
So now we are at #2.
I realize Ebola is a threat but whatever happened to medical confidences?
Can anyone imagine the ramifications of all of this once flu season hits? Will pediatricians offices be protected, ERs, etc. will everyone be wearing protective suits to deal with each patient? And the extreme cost of all of this?
Also, don’t forget there’s a 14 year old being tested in NY, after returning from Sudan, with flu like symptoms.
You’d think this would be a headline on Drudge. But nothing. Same headline from Fri to Mon every weekend. Weak.
Considering how the Duncan case has been mishandled (Bunny suits with the sleeves rolled up? Power washing vomit from the sidewalk outside Duncan's apartment without masks or any protective gear?) it's amazing that there aren't hundreds of cases by now!
In case it hasn’t been posted — WHO Ebola FAQ page:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/
I have not seen the 90% mortality figure before and am not sure exactly what situations to which it might pertain. I assume it’d be in areas with poor health care capabilities, but, still...
bkm
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
These hospital and medical facilities are concentrating centers for the virus and are obviuosly dangerous for health care workers and patients. I know that they isolate the Ebola patients once suspected, but when patients enter the ER and clinic with non specific symptoms, they will need to be isolated ASAP, and because early symptoms are non-specific, this will not be possible to know who has or doesn’t have Ebola. In fact what could happen is one Ebola suspected pateint is kept in the same area as several Flu patents, and more patients become infected with Ebola.
Health care workers are going to call in sick in droves when Flu season hits. At this point, it would be advisable to avoid hospitals that treat Ebola.
This new patient lives in the “M” streets of Dallas.........a fairly wealthy area. She presented to the hospital Friday and was admitted. I saw/heard nothing here in the Dallas area yesterday about a potential new patient. A reverse 911!call went out to everyone w/in 4 blocks of the patient’s apartment and the common areas of that complex were decontaminated. She was NOT included in the 48 on the original watch list......