Posted on 09/30/2014 1:44:05 PM PDT by Crazieman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday confirmed the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States.
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If they go by the book, this is going to hurt and hurt terribly if there are other cases. Every case on flu thereafter will have to be treated as potential ebola.
Just looked at #DallasEbola. Someone was ignorant enough to ask @GovPerry how Ebola got in to Texas.
Sheesh. This is what we’re dealing with...on a wide-spread basis :(
Four American aid workers who became infected while volunteering in West Africa have been treated in special isolation facilities in hospitals in Atlanta and Nebraska, and a U.S. doctor exposed to the virus in Sierra Leone is under observation in a similar facility at the National Institutes of Health. The U.S. has only four such isolation units. But asked whether the patient would be moved to one of those specialty facilities, Frieden said there was no need and virtually any hospital can provide the proper care and infection control.
Then what's the point of spending all those b/millions of tax dollars to upgrade and officially sanction those four units if any ol' hospital could handle it? Huh? What was the big mad rush to get the earlier cases back to the US if any ol' hospital could handle it? I mean, we have US doctors over there and there are "Westernized" modern hospitals over there (I'm not talking about the makeshift tents) so the earlier patients could have had the same care there as here, right? Of course, that's right. But, for some reason known only to the CDC they were brought back and placed in separate (ok, two at Atlanta) Level 4 Ebola sanctioned US hospitals. If one were suspicious, they'd think someone was wanting to spread it around. But mere hours after this latest American doctor was admitted to super duper Bethesda with the very best care, this foreigner is left at a just anywhere ol' hospital.
Sorry, the CDC meme is holding less and less water at every update.
Saw where report was switched planes in VA.
Where did you read that?
sorry mistyped Blackangus. My post should not have been direct to you.
My husband and I were going to Disney World Monday......
Doesn’t seem like a great idea now.........folks fly in from everywhere to go there......it could be a giant petri dish!
I know it goes without saying but it could be said over and over again time election day. What kind of administration leaves flights from ebola hotzones wide open? The DHS should’ve implemented testing and quarantine procedures for everyone coming from West African ebola hotzones. They should be testing every passenger with no exceptions. The idea that Ebola infected can fly in like they are taking a vacation in Disneyland is absolutely crazy. It is almost certain now that we will have many collateral ebola cases because of this one person who crossed the damn country flying through God knows how many airports before landing in Dallas. Then he spends 6 days before he is finally diagnosed but that means he spent four days before the symptoms got bad enough he had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. Two days prior he went to the ER which means he was probably sick and showing beginning symptoms nearly right after arriving or even near the end of his long international flight and probably thought it was allergies/jetlag/migraines and self medicated. The problem is the anatomy of a homecoming. It usually means going out for dinner lots of hugs, lots of kisses, lots human touch so at least his family is at a very high likelyhood of also contracting the illness but it could be much worse since this Ebola outbreak is much more “airborn”. Also Ebola is sexually transmitted even once a man is symptom free for as much as 46 days.
Here is how Ebola progresses:
“Typically, Ebola virus infection runs its course within 14 to 21 days. Infection initially presents with nonspecific flu-like symptoms such as fever, myalgia, and malaise. As the infection progresses, patients exhibit severe bleeding and coagulation abnormalities, including gastrointestinal bleeding, rash, and a range of hematological irregularities, such as lymphopenia and neutrophilia. Cytokines are released when reticuloendothelial cells encounter virus, which can contribute to exaggerated inflammatory responses that are not protective. Damage to the liver, combined with massive viremia, leads to disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. The virus eventually infects microvascular endothelial cells and compromises vascular integrity. The terminal stages of Ebola virus infection usually include diffuse bleeding, and hypotensive shock accounts for many Ebola virus fatalities”
http://jvi.asm.org/content/77/18/9733
I’ll go backwards and find ... hold on.
traveled from Liberia to the United States via Brussels and Dulles, VA, on to Dallas, TX
info courtesy of Black Agnes
With Sawyer, he infected the 16 DOCUMENTED ones within a very small span of time. This Liberian guy has been wandering around for days.
The repercussions would last for some time, given that ebola is believed to be transmissible via certain bodily fluids for what, seven months in individuals who survive infection? People are weak and irresponsible, any number of lesser STD’s let alone AIDS has shown us this. All it would take is one or a couple of people having sexual contact and there it goes again.
The economic impact would likely be major as well. Much of the country is still limping along, only holding it together due to government stimulus spending. During a bona fide outbreak of a disease with this level of mortality, retail would absolutely dry up, only the absolute bare necessities would be purchased.
about twitter.... you have to wait til all the teenagers go to bed or are in school....otherwise you have to wade through their junk....they loose interest pretty quick though ...like toddlers...they’re into everything!
However...you do get to know who to look for that has info worth looking at.
“The time that elapses between the first Ebola case and the generation of secondary cases is about two weeks.
This should allow plenty of time to identify those who are sick and protect people who might come in contact with them.
People with Ebola are contagious and able to transmit the virus only when they are showing symptoms, which occurs about a week after they are exposed to the virus.”
Thanks for the post - bears repeating.
Dallas patient was sick enough to go to a doctor (was it to the ER the first time?) ER on the 24th. So say mild symptoms showed on the 22nd or 23rd? And it’s the 30th today, 7-8 days later.
Of course some guy going into the ER today in Seattle with flu-like symptoms won’t be in the papers as positive for Ebola for another 4-5 days.
Your assumptions are wrong and your math is as well.
yep, if foothold attained ... economy is gone.
We don’t know that he zigzagged on purpose. A flight with multiple stops and layovers is often cheaper than direct flights. It *could* have been a financial decision.
“How many passengers have been aboard that plane since Sept 19th? That’s 11 days ago.”
Just a wild guess, but two flights a day at 300 people each is 6,600 people on the airplane.
Hard to say how many people those 6,600 people came into contact with as they walked through the airport.
What did that a44hole Bernie Seigel say today after this case made it to the US, in which he said it was not possible to come here and nothing to worry about? I want to see this guy to time in federal prison for his lying and manipulation of the truth.
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