Posted on 10/24/2014 9:52:24 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A plane from Washington D.C.'S Dulles International Airport has been grounded at Columbia Metropolitan Airport due to a sick passenger on board, according a spokesperson for the Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
The passenger had a reported nosebleed, and the plane was being held on the ramp Friday morning, according to airport spokeswoman Kaela Harmon.
A nosebleed is a symptom of advanced Ebola, a deadly virus that has killed nearly 5,000 worldwide, including one victim in the United States. Caution is high because of recent outbreaks of the disease in Dallas, and a confirmed case of the virus in New York announced Friday.
Harmon described the chance the passenger has Ebola as very, very low.
The passenger had a reported nosebleed, and the plane was being held on the ramp Friday morning, according to airport spokeswoman Kaela Harmon.A nosebleed is a symptom of advanced Ebola, a deadly virus that has killed nearly 5,000 worldwide
Sweating, vomiting, now nose bleeds will bring mass transit to a grinding halt! Yet, we can't stop flights from the hot zone to protect the economy of those nations which apparently trump the health and economy of ours.
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FWIW, As the seasons change and we activate furnaces here in the damp NE, we suffer nuisance nose bleeds routinely. A weird and consistent treatment to stop the nose bleed is to find your keys and drop them down your back. As silly as that sounds, it really works. I don't know why but I do know that this has worked for generations of teachers in classrooms.
"This folk remedy was known in colonial America and seems to have come from the British Isles. the Maharani of Jaipur, Gayatri Devi, reported in her memoir, a Princess Remembers, that when she got a nosebleed at age 11, the actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. "put a key down my back to stop the bleeding" Nuns and teachers seem particularly fond of this remedy."I was teaching in a rual school in south Georgia in a four-pod classroom with 120 first-graders and four teachers. Kids played hard in the heat and humidity and many children came in with nosebleeds. I used the old methods of squeezing their nostrils and having them hold their heads back or putting ice on the backs of their necks to try to stop the bleeding.
One day an elderly custodian who had lived in the South all her life took out her car keys, asked for some string to tie through the key ring, placed the ring around the neck of the child with the nosebleed and dropped the keys down the child's back under her shirt. that nosebleed was no longer a frightening problem!
I treated nosebleeds this way and never had a problem again. That's 120 first-graders a year for 15 years, which sounds like a pretty big number to me!"
Quoted from "Best Choices from the people's pharmacy"
Someone is playing a very dangerous game here.
On one hand we hear that thousands(?) a day are dying in Africa from Ebola.
We have had 1 death (and he from Africa) BUT the people that treated him are being diagnosed WITH it AND surviving.
My cyncical take on this guy in NY will turn out to be ‘no problem’ with the ‘lesson’ being that he can go through the genpop and not spread anything etc etc etc....
Now since ‘we’ have a supposed cure, ‘they’ will be flocking from African and we can look forward to a ‘Mexican’ like Exodus....(I mean the ‘African’ Government sponsoring and encouraging their infected to make the trip to US).
If we would have put a stop to it immediately, our chances of a problem would be lessened BUT how many do you think are already not only enroute, but here.
“They” keep telling us “nothing to worry about” but keep the ‘scare’ going as long as feasible.
If this bunch of lily livered pols gets reelected (AGAIN) it may be time to do something, as the present occupiers have shown they will do nothing - they have even stopped ‘acting’ like they care about anything.
Another few years and we will be looking like Calcutta or worse and if that happens, it won’t be ‘worth’ being around etc etc etc
It happened with that cruise ship.
This is one of the unintended consequences of letting Ebola out of Africa. Either there will be increased caution or people will be more likely to avoid public places during the coming holiday season. What happens when flu season hits? Besides similar symptoms, if someone with Ebola also gets the flu they’ll be experiencing even worse compound symptoms, which I would think would enhance its spread.
Bingo, the economics of ebola is hitting already. A stupid doctor visits your restsurant while feeling ill, your restaurant is out of business. Your bowling alley. Your hot dog stand.
And, as you say, other countries aren’t as politically correct as Obama. They WILL very soon start banning flights from the USA.
Obama clearly does not know how to play chess. None of his moves have ever taken into consideration the future responses.
Thousands more people will die in the U.S. than ever will from Ebola.
Did he have the chicken or the fish?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
“Liars gotta lie.”
Colombia nosebleed
Which is more likely, ebola or cocaine?
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