Smallpox scare locks down emergency room at Hollywood Memorial (Florida)

sun-sentinel.com ^ | October 20 2006, 10:50 AM EDT | Staff

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HOLLYWOOD – Memorial Regional Hospital was put under lockdown for a short time shortly after 7 Friday morning over worries a sick patient was suffering symptoms similar to smallpox, a hospital official said in an e-mail release.

Infectious disease experts at the 690-bed hospital and trauma center quickly confirmed that a patient complaining of a high fever and a skin rash was not suffering from deadly smallpox. They did not say what the patient suffered from.

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Smallpox is extinct in the wild...

[Gay State Conservative]

Wow! I thought that smallpox was eradicated about 30 years ago.Every Infectious Disease specialist from the CDC and Harvard Medical School will be in Miami by tonight.

And question #1,if it proves to be smallpox,will be...where did it come from?

Nebraska?

Indiana?

Haiti?

Or Nigeria?

[Retired Chemist]

Where's House when you need him?

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Aye, that is the big question.

[ordinaryguy]

if it proves to be smallpox,

From the article:

Infectious disease experts at the 690-bed hospital and trauma center quickly confirmed that a patient complaining of a high fever and a skin rash was not suffering from deadly smallpox.

[GOPJ]

Did anyone figure out what it was that "looked" like smallpox?

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Nahhhh, nothing to see here, move along...