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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Up to 12 people could be infected with Ebola including five children, it was revealed today, as health officials scramble to contain the deadly virus following the first diagnosis on U.S. soil.
The family of the male sufferer, who recently arrived in Texas from Liberia, could be at risk. EMTs who transported the patient were also deemed at risk but had received the all-clear today.
The man, who arrived in Dallas on September 20, is said to be critically ill and has been kept in isolation since Sunday. The patient, has not been identified but is believed to be married and have children. He is 'awake, talking and asking for food', doctors said today. However there are fears of the disease spreading because the man was in the U.S. for almost a week before being isolated.
Your question is a Great question. Unfortunately I do not have or have I been able to find an answer.
The reality is that the African nations should have imposed a quarantine of all residents, and I don’t know how you would do that except to have the military shoot dead the citizens who are not compliant. Mixing outside of their immediate families has spread this virus and for the most part hurt themselves.
Having said that, once people leave Africa via air, boat, etc, every single method of transportation would have to be shut down because there is no way to determine if anyone originated from west Africa except by their own admission.
Then again, these are some mighty large industries in which the cretins in DC could also destroy. Who knows anymore what evil resides in the tunnels of this administr8n’s plans of operation.
You know, I don’t believe a darn word about the period of contagiousness. I think this is simply an excuse to keep the public calm or unaware and something the CDC & king putt can use before they tell us, “We just didn’t know,” or “It’s mutated into something stronger... and earlier period of contagiousness,” etc.
Probably more people infected than we know.
Recovery from Ebola ‘depends on the patient’s immune response’
That’s pretty much what happens when we have the Flu Virus....the body basically has to do it’s thing.......we take medications ‘to ease the symptoms’ but it’s the body’s immune system that comes to the defense of the virus....and we “survive”.....Some would call that “cured”.
Unfortunately Ebola is one nasty beast which shows no mercy as it travels thru the body hard and fast once it gets moving....still it’s the immune system which fights it.
The man in Dallas is now ‘in critical condition’ which would indicate his body’s immune system likely overwhelmed and as yet may not be strong enough to ward this off.....as said it’s one nasty beast of a disease...nobody’s underplaying that by any means.
“it can never happen to the US”
What can never happen? What is it? My mother once said, that “it” is the biggest word in the dictionary. looks to me like the entire country is going to go into a “it” frenzy, with the exception of a few cavalier people...
I think that is the question that is being turned into a strawman.
While anyone in West Africa can get ebloa, be asymptomatic, and get on a airplane and fly to the US, while still asymptomatic, few people could actually do that for a variety of reasons. Thus the idea that the US will be flooded somehow with ebola patients escaping Africa was ludicrous. That was the first “it”.
All I did was try to knock that strawman down, only to have it replaced with another, in that entire airplanes would be infected by one person, so I tried to nock that strawman down only to have it replaced again by another, and another and another.
I’m not being cavalier. I live in the real world..”It” is certainly possible for someone to get here asymptomatic and then present with ebola, but now that has occurred and new strawmen are arising from the ash of the old and the “we are all gonna die” refrain is one of them.
Ebola is no more easy to contract then the flu. In fact it’s much more difficult. I use the flu comparison because they are both viruses. They both kill. But the flu is much worse in terms of ability to infect vast numbers of people and cause global damage.
In the US, we have been handling outbreaks of both bacteriological and viral caused illnesses on small, medium and large scales for my entire life. I recall a strep outbreak back in the 50s where state and federal medical authorities intervened. The bug presented as Strep-throat, and was in the schools system. They ID’d all of the kids who had contracted it, treated them in the schools, and eradicated the outbreak. Even followed up on the infected for a number of months. This would be no different if the disease was ebola.
That is just a minor example, but I use it to illustrate the difference between the western governments, and the conditions in West Africa and I use a dated example from the mid 1950s America.
It’s just a realistic assessment of the issue, and not some cavalier pooh-phooing..
I think you have a better chance of getting struck by a meteorite, then catching ebola in the US, unless of course you work in a field that puts you in direct contact with potentially infected persons coming back from funerals in Liberia..
If that is the case, then the chances are only a little higher than the meteorite strike..
Now that is getting a bit cavalier...but I admit “it”, in advance..
Of course ....that is par and partial of handling an outbreak of any disease. ...and for that matter anything else which would alarm and cause panic as in our nation it takes very little to do just that....so they have to be very cautious regarding how and what they report.
Imagine what panic in the US would look like and you can understand why they are being cautious. The fact is we do know it's here, so each person needs to be aware of that and take their own measures to be as safe as possible.....which is why they're telling people to pay attention to basic hygiene practices as well.
I'm going to also add this....one of the most dangerous places to be for 'any' illness is a hospital.....which is why the sooner you can be released from any illness the better. Not to mention an Emergency room....my family has always made a point to sit outside or as far as possible from other people until we can be seen...and avoid going there and instead our physicians. And even there be cautious..."sick" people are all around and you haven't a clue what they have!
...”I’ve worked a flu season or two — people who are highly contagious, coughing, feverish, etc will head right on out and shop, run errands, and just generally roam everywhere”....
I see this at work all the time and unfortunately for some they think coming to work sick is some sort of “badge Of honor”. When in truth they have no concern for the “safety” of others.
yep, reminds me of someone from Ferguson.
Another Ebola infectee was just quarantined after flying in from West Africa to Boston’s Logan airport!
Well..he is one sick puppy no matter...and since appears quite young likely didn’t sit home visiting with the family before he went to the Hospital.
Another Ebola infectee was just quarantined after flying in from West Africa to Boston’s Logan airport!
They need to stop flights out of hot zones if not all of Africa!
or stop them from landing here!
Sheesh it doesn’t take rocket scientists to figure that out!
yep, he does appear quite young. Don’t want to say too much because others already have said too much, so will be quiet (proportionately).
dang ...
Sheesh it doesn’t take rocket scientists to figure that out!
Regrettably most employed rocket scientists are here on HB1 visas. There are fewer rocket scientists that are citizens of the U.S.A. employed than there once was. Non-citizens might be saying ... Who cairs?
A nine-member group of federal health officials is now tracking anyone who had close contact with the man.
five school-aged children - who are being monitored but are showing no symptoms of the disease.
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said Wednesday that...... the students were in school this week after ‘possibly’ being in contact with the man over the weekend.
But he says they’re showing no symptoms and are now being monitored at home.
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