Posted on 10/18/2014 11:20:22 AM PDT by maggief
The first group of people exposed to Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die from Ebola in the United States, will no longer be considered at risk for the Ebola virus at 12 a.m. Monday.
After three weeks of isolation or self-monitoring, 47 people -- including Duncan's fiancee Louise Troh, her 13-year-old son and two nephews --- will be cleared and allowed to go on with their lives.
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Crouching yes...into cupped hands... I don’t think so...into sleeve or lift your clothes to block your sneeze
Yeah, I’m not getting it.
There were in the apartment with him as he bled and vomited all over the place.
From Wikipedia:
Timeline of contraction and initial symptoms[edit]
On September 15, 2014, the family of Ebola patient Marthalene Williams were unable to summon an ambulance to transfer Williams to the hospital. Their tenant, Duncan, helped to transfer Williams by taxi to an Ebola treatment ward in Monrovia, Liberia. Duncan rode in the taxi to the treatment ward with Williams, her father, and her brother. The family was turned away due to lack of space, and Duncan helped carry Williams from the taxi back into her home, where she died shortly afterward.[9]
On September 19, Duncan went to the airport in Monrovia, where according to Liberian officials Duncan lied about his history of contact with the disease on an airport questionnaire before boarding a Brussels Airlines flight to Brussels. In Brussels, Duncan boarded United Airlines Flight 951 to Washington Dulles Airport.[10] From Washington, he boarded United Airlines Flight 822 to Dallas/Fort Worth. He arrived in Dallas at 7:01 p.m. CDT[11] on September 20, 2014,[1][12] and stayed with his partner and her five children, who live in the Fair Oaks neighborhood of Dallas.[13][14]
Duncan’s illness and death in Dallas[edit]
Duncan began experiencing symptoms on September 24, 2014, and went to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital emergency room late in the evening of September 25, 2014. During this visit, the hospital reported his symptoms were a 100.1 °F (37.8 °C) fever, abdominal pain for two days, a headache, and decreased urination; but that he had no vomiting, diarrhea, or nausea at the time. The ER nurse had asked about his travel history and recorded he had come from Liberia. It was initially reported that this information was not relayed to the doctor by the hospital’s electronic medical record (EMR) system,[15] but the hospital later retracted that statement.
Hospital officials also said that Duncan had been asked if he had been around anyone who had been sick, and said Duncan told them he had not.[16] He was diagnosed with a “low-grade, common viral disease” and was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics.[17] Medical records later retrieved by the Associated Press revealed Duncan had a fever as high as 103 °F (39 °C) during the initial visit and that he rated his pain as 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.[18]
Treatment and death[edit]
Duncan began vomiting on September 28, 2014, and was transported the same day to the same Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital emergency room by ambulance, where he was left in the waiting room for approximately three hours before being isolated.[19][20].
Nurses were not in full Hazmat suit when receiving Duncan. His Ebola diagnosis was confirmed during a CDC news conference on September 30, 2014,[21][22]
On October 7, it was reported that Duncan’s condition was improving. However, Duncan died at 7:51 a.m. Central Time (DST) on October 8, 2014, and became the first person to die within the United States of Ebola virus disease.[23] [24][4]
There is an unknown percentage of the population in West Africa that are immune to Ebola... I’d guess the percentage of people here that are immune is way lower...
Studies have suggested that the viral load by type of body fluid is quite idiosyncratic -- one patient may shed a lot of virus through saliva, another patient very little or none, etc.
So everyone should be careful extrapolating from one patient to others.
9 days...or he was previously exposed.
Amazing that the people living with him haven’t come down with it YET....
I think 21 days is too short - better to be safe. Seems like their blood should be tested.
What, you think it’s a conspiracy?
The staffers caught it because it as the sickness advances, more virus copies are made and expelled.
Was there blood all over the place? I don't know -- just asking. Usually this would be a last few hours of life thing. Sometimes doesn't happen at all.
There is no such thing in this instance. Maybe a lifetime self-quarantine would work for you.
Was wondering aloud on another thread about them this morning.
This is one weird virus.
See?
We’re all gonna die.
This is a horrible disease but, it just doesn’t transmit as well as the flu.
I wanna see obama and susan rice give them big hugs and sloppy kisses
I think the nurses CONTRACTED have been eating a lot of Lay
Frito Chips... Dallas is the potato chip Capitol, and the others have been eating bush food, off the street. They eat without washing hands, they have more resistance to bugs, roaches, verm and the hospital workers have been living in a bubble. What do you think?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216869/posts
Ok. .we have a woman right at the 21 day mark from Duncan’s apartment complex. ..becoming ill at a DART station
As Ebola hysteria builds, this is a very important fact to remember, and to digest.
Casual contact is not a risk factor. Neither is flying on a plane.
Physician and especially nursing care is enormously dangerous.
Dogs apparently are only carriers....
Not at all. In the crisis phase, the Emory patients had TEN BILLION virus particles/cc of sweat. This compares to FIVE MILLION/cc of BLOOD in terminal AIDS.
The health care workers are being contaminated by inadequate protection and/or when taking off their gear. Casual contact is near zero risk.
Cross link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3216869/posts?page=45
Woman on Ebola watch list falls ill at DART station
WFFA News Dallas ^ | October 18, 2014 | WFAA
Someone at WHO should call someone at CDC. What’s another 20 days of observation going to hurt?
The staffers caught it because it as the sickness advances, more virus copies are made and expelled.
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