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Dallas ambulance crew exposed to Ebola patient test negative for virus
Reuters ^ | Wed Oct 1, 2014 6:55pm IST | Jon Herskovitz

Posted on 10/01/2014 7:24:10 AM PDT by justlittleoleme

Oct 1 (Reuters) - All three members of Dallas ambulance crew exposed to a patient who developed Ebola have tested negative for the virus, the City of Dallas said on Wednesday. The crew members have been quarantined. They will be closely monitored for the next 21 days, the city said on its Twitter feed.

(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: dallas; ebola; ebolavictim; firstresponders; firstusebolavictim; notsofast; outbreak; texasliberians; uspatientzero
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To: PrairieLady2

Has the ambulance ITSELF been tested?


Sure....just like the aircraft he flew in on was. Not!

Maybe they’ve disinfected the ambulance, by now. Who knows? How many other EMT and patients were exposed to this vehicle?


21 posted on 10/01/2014 7:49:04 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Black Agnes

“I can’t seriously believe they wasted money testing them so soon.”

Reporting results like this, even though they are technically meaningless, is meant to calm the masses.


22 posted on 10/01/2014 7:49:26 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: Resolute Conservative

Yep! And did he or his “Family” members visit a Mall, shopping center, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Wal-Mart or other places while on the loose in the Dallas area?


23 posted on 10/01/2014 7:50:03 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: MNGal

No doubt.

Which makes me more suspicious of them and their ‘information management’.


24 posted on 10/01/2014 7:51:03 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Here’s hoping they stay negative.


25 posted on 10/01/2014 7:52:17 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: justlittleoleme

So, that means I’m not contagious until one split second before I get a fever. Then it’s too damned late. I’m grocery shopping and the guy next in line sneezes and blows saliva (body fluid) in my face. Was he not contagious until AFTER he sneezed?

The CDC does not want to cause a panic. That’s why they’re lying to us.

Personally, I’ve got enough food to stay in the house for a while. I’m fixing to go buy a 55 gallon drum for water storage.


26 posted on 10/01/2014 7:58:09 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: txhurl

No kidding.

I’d hate to be the spouse that washed the uniform Sunday night when they got home.


27 posted on 10/01/2014 7:58:20 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: txhurl

This is only the beginning if any of those ambulance drivers or people he came in contact with went to the state fair we are so freaking cook! I fear for my kids in Dallas God help us all! I blame all of this on Obama and his stupidity with all the diseases that are coming in from the border I can just imagine what hellhole we are living in it’s a time bomb ready to explode!


28 posted on 10/01/2014 8:00:50 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: justlittleoleme

I blame Obama


29 posted on 10/01/2014 8:02:08 AM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Yep! And did he or his “Family” members visit a Mall, shopping center, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Wal-Mart or other places while on the loose in the Dallas area?

Questions, and no answers. Did his "family" in Dallas live in a single dwelling residence, or apartment? If he was vomiting, and they cleaned it up, did it go in a trash can on the curb, or an apartment dumpster where a dumpster diver may have come in contact with it?

Does Dallas have those no touch trash cans, or the kind, the garbage crews pick up, and empty?

Are their school age children in the household? What school do they attend?

30 posted on 10/01/2014 8:04:28 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: justlittleoleme
In the first hospital visit, did the patient disclose that he had just been to Liberia? Did the medical personnel ask?

Questions that ought to be asked by police, not just infectious disease experts.

31 posted on 10/01/2014 8:07:55 AM PDT by omega4412
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To: RoseofTexas

It doesn’t sound like the guy went out much after he started feeling sick around the 23rd or so. It also doesn’t seem the family member he infected was a child, or we’d be hearing stuff from the Dallas ISD. All in all, not nearly as bad as it could be.


32 posted on 10/01/2014 8:10:40 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: justlittleoleme

Were the crew members white?

Because we CAN quarantine white people who may have been exposed to Ebola.

But we CAN’T quarantine black people who may have been exposed to Ebola (by arriving from LIBERIA FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD!)


33 posted on 10/01/2014 8:44:11 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When Amnesty was granted 30 years ago, they promised to close the borders and enforce the law)
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To: Jane Long
"Or, at the very least, on a ship...way offshore...or GITMO."

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How about that offshore hospital - I think it is called USS Hope.

34 posted on 10/01/2014 8:49:27 AM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Well Duh! Its only been about 3-4 days since they came in contact with the guy. Who’s to say in 6 more days they won’t show symptoms?


35 posted on 10/01/2014 8:54:24 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Quarantine deja-vu.
Much like when afrika gave the world the AIDS virus. The govt failed to quarantine or restrict travel because of political correctness. It appears obola is just a redux as the govt never learns from prior mistakes and unfettered travel and access and no screening is the order of the day.


36 posted on 10/01/2014 8:57:00 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: justlittleoleme

What about the ambulance itself? What about the linens used? What about the laundry service or whomever handled the dirty linens? What about the other patients that traveled in that ambulance? What about....


37 posted on 10/01/2014 9:29:15 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Jane Long

I vote for the white hut and every congressman’s office for not stepping up to put a stop to obola’s nonsense.


38 posted on 10/01/2014 9:31:45 AM PDT by bgill
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To: VerySadAmerican
So, that means I’m not contagious until one split second before I get a fever

That's what several FReepers keep preaching.

39 posted on 10/01/2014 9:35:07 AM PDT by bgill
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To: justlittleoleme
Negative! Why?!! Oh, why???!!!

Oh,,,negative is good?
40 posted on 10/01/2014 9:37:09 AM PDT by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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