[Veggie Todd]

...a Fort Worth doctor who contracted Ebola while working as an aid worker in Africa...

I think I see the problem.

[Rex Anderson]

Thanks, Obama voters!

[Dallas59]

[Jane Long]

Ping, related to earlier ping...for the E thread.

[bigredkitty1]

It’s one thing when this is half a world away. It’s quite another when it is now in your own backyard. Why was this person not in quarantine? BEFORE he/she began exhibiting signs of sickness? It was known this person had recently travelled from Africa.

[ansel12]

There is a quarantine center in Dallas, I wonder if this hospital is it?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Kartographer]

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning. Ebola is no more dangerous than a hang nail.

[a fool in paradise]

Dallas? He probably has ebola menudo. Some bed rest and abstention from adult beverages for awhile and he might improve.

[familyop]

The story from a non-blog, local news outlet. If the patient has Ebola, the search for previous human contact(s) with that person after arrival in the U.S. from Africa will be on.

North Texas Hospital Evaluating Patient For Potential Ebola Exposure
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/09/29/north-texas-hospital-evaluating-patient-for-potential-ebola-exposure/

[FlingWingFlyer]

These clowns are going to keep on screwing around until Ebola is raising havoc in America. A lot of Americans are going to die because of this administration’s stupidity and incompetence.

[Organic Panic]

Good thing we are bringing them back to the USA.

[exDemMom]

In 2008, there was an imported case of Marburg in the United States. Marburg is almost identical to Ebola, except that the fatality range is higher, about 83-90% (by contrast, Ebola is 45-90%).

The woman had traveled in Uganda and visited a bat cave while there. She fell ill and was admitted to a hospital. There, she received surgery, recovered, and was released without ever being diagnosed. Six months later, she requested repeat testing for Marburg since she had heard of a Dutch tourist who visited the same cave and developed a fatal case of Marburg. That testing revealed that she had, in fact, had Marburg. Contact tracing revealed that she had not caused a single secondary infection.

I fully expect that any cases of Ebola that manage to enter the US will have a similar outcome. The patient may or may not survive, but the disease is highly unlikely to spread any further than the affected patient.

Imported Case of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever --- Colorado, 2008

I'm glad that diseases like Ebola and Marburg aren't very contagious.

[DannyTN]

"Whether or not this patient turns out to have Ebola, the likelihood of Ebola making its way into the continental United States increases with each passing day that it spreads unabated across African nations."

Suspected Ebola patient now in isolation at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital-Natural News

And that's why I support troops to stop the spread in Africa. Because the odds of the troops bringing it home if the military uses common sense, is a lot less than it reaching America on it's own.

"Currently, two million residents of Sierra Leone are living under government quarantines, with food shortages already widely reported. If an Ebola outbreak begins to spread in the United States, there is little question that the federal government will declare and enforce quarantines of cities or even entire regions."

"Once those quarantines go into place, routine deliveries of food and other supplies are likely to be sharply restricted or disrupted."