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Top doc: 'Several people were exposed,' more will be infected by Dallas Ebola case
Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 1st, 2014 | By Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/01/2014 12:53:29 PM PDT by Mariner

A former Food and Drug Administration chief scientist and top infectious disease specialist said that several people were exposed to the Ebola virus by the unidentified patient in Dallas, America’s first case, and it’s likely that many more will be infected.

Dr. Jesse L. Goodman, now a professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, said while the nation shouldn’t panic, it’s best to prepare for the worst.

“It is quite appropriate to be concerned on many fronts,” he said in a statement provided to Secrets. “First, it is a tragedy for the patient and family and, as well, a stress to contacts, health care workers and the community at large. Second, it appears several people were exposed before the individual was placed in isolation, and it is quite possible that one or more of his contacts will be infected,” he added.

What’s more, he conceded that it was “only a matter of time” that the swift-killing African virus arrived in the U.S.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dallas; ebola; obola; texas
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To: Mariner

But the White House will put no restrictions on air travel because, like, what difference does it make if a few Americans are infected with a deadly disease that is likely to kill them? This White House has no cares about Americans. They prove it daily.

But anyone who heard Obama talk about a baby being an inconvenience knew right then that he had no love for life or the living.


61 posted on 10/01/2014 3:19:00 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: petitfour
"what difference does it make if a few Americans are infected with a deadly disease that is likely to kill them? "

Folks fail to understand the importance of what's going on! We now have Ebola IN THE WILD in the Dallas area, at least. It's in the sewage and garbage systems...and by extension the animals that frequent those systems.

AND Ebola is transmissible between animals and between animals and humans.

What we don't know is if insects can spread it...like fleas and mosquitoes and bed bugs, those that feed on blood.

Like the plague.

Even if they shut down this current small outbreak, it's likely to be back and haunt our progeny for decades, if not centuries.

62 posted on 10/01/2014 3:43:15 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: b4its2late

Like I always said when it comes to the government: There are the things they let the public know and the things they keep the public from knowing. So if there is an Ebola patient what are the things they are not telling us about it? Especially with this administration? That’s why I predict in the coming weeks we’ll be seeing cases pop up all across the country and we’re going to have a panic on our hands, this is really going to freak people out. Let’s see if Obummer grants his “executive amnesty” then.


63 posted on 10/01/2014 4:05:44 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: FamiliarFace

I don’t know, I have faith in people. Once good gets going it is not to be stopped.


64 posted on 10/01/2014 5:36:30 PM PDT by TBall
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To: CatOwner

If it went straight to YouTube, maybe!


65 posted on 10/01/2014 7:38:38 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: glorgau

What about folks who MUST fly, for a living? That would be a bit scary (scarier), now.


66 posted on 10/01/2014 7:43:36 PM 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: F15Eagle

The following will be coming a few days before the election:

“As president it is my responsibility to protect the people of this country. Therefore, no elections will be held. It’s simply too dangerous to have millions of people standing in line with people possibly infected with the ebola virus.”


67 posted on 10/01/2014 7:54:21 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: CGASMIA68

Just think of all the incompetent boobs who voted for democrats. I wish there was a way to tell who they are. Then when the SHTF we’d know who to blame.


68 posted on 10/01/2014 7:56:04 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: All

Dr. Oz said something interesting today. He said “I’m afraid this is a trial run.”


69 posted on 10/01/2014 7:57:35 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: william clark

I went to the Texas State Fair for the first time a few years ago. I always wanted to go. What a disappointment! It’s outrageously expensive and about all I saw was a bunch of new car dealers. Big Tex burned a little while after I left. And I didn’t do it.


70 posted on 10/01/2014 8:03:09 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: Mariner

Ebola in far away villages is one thing. In a major American city is another. This is bad!


71 posted on 10/01/2014 8:06:45 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

72 posted on 10/01/2014 10:14:38 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: glorgau
Remember SARS?


73 posted on 10/01/2014 10:19:26 PM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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To: Mariner

“it was “only a matter of time” that the swift-killing African virus arrived in the U.S.”

Really and why is that I wonder? Europe doesn’t have it, neither does Asia or Australia as far as I know. It was confined to the African continent. If it was only a matter of time to hit the US then I guess it’s the same for any other part of the world right? TPTB and others in this country are so freaking DUMB! And I’ll bet we STILL have not restricted flights huh?


74 posted on 10/02/2014 12:00:25 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: Mariner; Kartographer

Reading about this guy’s activities and travels, I can’t come to any other conclusion that this was deliberate.

How long before it happens again?

Sure, maybe if it were simply being passed around like a cold or flu, containment MIGHT be possible, but when someone is out to deliberately infect as many as possible before he succumbs, it WILL spread and spread far.

They are not taking that into account from everything I’ve heard.

All I can hope is that anyone who is out to deliberately infect someone is not part of the group that survives. They may be betting on the fact that the survival rate is better than suicide bombing.

They CAN survive Ebola and live to do yet more terrorism. You only get one chance with a bomb vest.


75 posted on 10/02/2014 12:56:43 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: VerySadAmerican

You beat me to the punch. Went once...will never go again. Kids were bored to death and so were we.

Way over hyped.


76 posted on 10/02/2014 1:16:25 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: TBall

I believe in original sin. People will not be good. Some may, but once this breaks into the average person’s worldview, it will be nasty


77 posted on 10/02/2014 1:34:17 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: F15Eagle

lose the borders...dah


78 posted on 10/02/2014 1:39:36 AM PDT by caww
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To: DoughtyOne
What angers me, as late as a couple of days ago they had idiots going on television stating EBOLA couldn’t be spread if a carrier was asymptomatic. If it’s in the blood stream, it is transmittable.

Since it is true that Ebola is not contagious until a person is symptomatic, why does it anger you when experts provide that information?

How do you expect a virus to leave someone's blood in order to infect someone else? Do infectious agents have tiny airplanes or something? There are many bloodborne infections that are not contagious at all, many of them endemic to the US. You will never catch dengue, malaria, or chikungunya from another person--all are bloodborne diseases, and spread by mosquitoes.

Bodily fluids carrying the infection can obviously infect someone exposed to them.

Expelling bodily fluids is one of the symptoms. An asymptomatic person does not vomiting or have diarrhea; once they start doing that, they are symptomatic, by definition. If we care to anthropomorphize the virus, we can say that it makes people vomit in order to find new hosts.

This is the same sort of lie they told about AIDS in the early days.

What kind of lie was supposedly told? AIDS is far more difficult to catch than Ebola, and is spread because it manages to get from the blood into the semen. A few years ago, I had to go into a hospital room of a man who had just died of AIDS. Although I came within a few feet of him, I did not catch AIDS. That's because blood-borne viruses do not fly.

79 posted on 10/02/2014 3:29:10 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: All

Guys, I know it’s stupid but I’m freaking out a little here. I’ve felt lightheaded and have had a moderate headache all day (I never get headaches). I woke up feeling fuzz-headed. Since I’ve gotten home from work I feel a fever coming on and I’ve got this weird puffy splotch on my thigh. It’’s like a bruise but slightly puffy and I can see like knotty purplish/brown spots underneath.

With all the weird stuff going around I’m worried. It;s not flu season just yet.


80 posted on 10/02/2014 5:19:32 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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