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Posted on 10/08/2014 7:37:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s already been at least one case of transmission outside Africa, of course: The nurse in Spain caught the virus from a sick patient who’d been hospitalized in Madrid. If it’s confirmed that he knew Thomas Duncan, this would be the second case.
Where, you ask, did the authorities encounter this mystery man exhibiting Ebola-like symptoms? Why, at a local health clinic in Frisco, Texas. Unwitting patients and staffers who were inside the clinic with him are now being held and examined, all apparently because this guy didn’t think to call the CDC or the police from home and tell them what was going on.
The patient, dressed in shorts and wearing a surgical mask and a plastic head covering, just walked out of the facility and into the ambulance, which had been covered in plastic. That patient will likely transported to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan was hospitalized.
We are working to determine if this person is among the 48 people the Centers for Disease Control is monitoring. So far there has been no comment from the CDC, which already had a 3 p.m. press conference scheduled.
There are also conflicting reports concerning the patient. Frisco officials earlier said he claimed to have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, but Care Now says he told them he’d been to Africa.
Maybe not a case of transmission inside the U.S. then? If he did catch the bug from Duncan, I’m especially keen to know how. Assuming he’s not a family member who spent long hours with Duncan in his Dallas apartment after he arrived in the U.S., his contact with him was probably fairly limited and indirect. How do you catch Ebola under those circumstances?
As for the threat posed by the mystery man to people inside the clinic, here’s a harrowing story via Vox of how Spain handled the nurse’s first hours with the disease.
According to Spanish press reports quoting the Spanish nurses’ union, Romero called Carlos III hospital several times between September 30 and October 2 when her fever finally hit the 38.6 threshold. Still, it took until October 6 when she had become so deathly ill she was begging for an Ebola test before anyone at the hospital where she worked reportedly reacted. Then, rather than immediately isolating her and rushing her to the special ward used to treat the previous Ebola patients, they told her to go to the nearby emergency room at Alcorcón, where press reports say she sat in the public waiting room for several hours absent of any protective gear. “I think I have Ebola,” she reportedly told anyone who would listen. But no one took notice until her first test came back positive. By then, dripping with fevered sweat, she would have been inarguably contagious.
Allegedly, she called her doctor on September 30th to tell him she was running a slight fever — and added that she had helped treat one of the missionaries who had died of Ebola just a week or two previously. The doctor told her to take some aspirin and keep in touch. She was out and about for days afterward, using public transportation and even taking a civil-service exam along with 20,000 other people. Another nurse who treated the missionary is now exhibiting a low-grade fever herself and has been quarantined. Says the Daily Beast, “It is highly likely that Romero will have infected at least one other person, probably her husband, because she was not isolated immediately.”
The CDC presser on the Frisco patient is starting soon. Stand by for updates. While we wait, via the Federalist, here’s a reminder that wanting to quarantine Ebola by temporarily blocking people from countries stricken by it from entering the U.S. is racist.
Update: The plot thickens.
NBC 5 has confirmed the person being transported to the hospital is an employee with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office who was in Duncan’s apartment.
So the mystery man did have contact with Duncan, perhaps indirectly. But he also traveled to Africa recently, per what the CareNow spokesman said above? Huh?
Update: Yikes.
The 2nd patient who may or may not have contacted Ebola was not one of the 48 who was under surveillance
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 8, 2014
Update: Either the mystery man doesn’t have Ebola or else the disease is spread more easily than people think.
“We were told by federal officials, county officials that you would have to come in direct contact with Duncan or direct contact with bodily fluids, and he did not,” said Monnig’s son, Logan about the possibility of his dad contracting Ebola. Logan said it’s a very scary time for his family, but they do not expect that his dad will test positive for the virus…
“He was in the apartment for 30 minutes, which we were told is no chance to contact the virus,” said Logan.
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Oboma the Bozo is now Obola the Virus
Lets home none of the newly arrived immigrants from Liberia decides to jump the fence and do a 75 yard dash make some kind of statement. I’m trying to imagine this happening at some affair like a correspondence dinner.
Lets home....Er...Lets hope...
Did you see the picture of the doctor/nurse wheeling the deputy down the hall at HTPH? She had on haphazard protective garb and had her neck exposed. We are sooo doomed.
Fortunately I’m able to rest in place. For a year+.
True about the lack of feasibility of stopping travel from two or three countries. It will likely be spreading in other places during the weeks or months to come, including Europe. Would it be possible to stop travel from all other countries? And what if it soon spreads more in the U.S.A. than other countries?
The U.S. dollar is the world reserve currency, and it’s unnaturally high given the lack of manufacturing on our own soil. The rulers of the world are in the process of trying to make our nation the seat of a new world empire.
They’re trying to set themselves up as deities, as others have tried to do in the past. And their favored employees, from their closest advisors with salaries in the millions of dollars to the lowest regulators in now rural county governments are doing their best to make that happen with regulations against residential owner-building new, small production shops, even in very sparsely populated areas. They’ve outlawed the population of slaves from doing any independent work for themselves.
So yes, Ebola or something like is coming sooner or later.
The family sort of went under the radar when they were hauled off to that house in a gated community. I haven’t heard a thing about them since, other than the photo op with Jesse Jackson and second-hand racial grievance-mongering that he no doubt initiated.
Hah! Perfect. These days it feels like The Stand is playing out.
LOL!!
Little correction for clarification here.
...are doing their best to make that happen with regulations against residential owner-building and new, small production shops, even in very sparsely populated areas.
My point is that they’ve made their own laws against allowing slaves (the majority) to work on their own properties for themselves while having the bipartisan political folks blame the victims of their evil, communist/fascist schemes (those forbidden from working for themselves). No six-year limit for slavery.
They shout and act to resume debtors’ prisons (no Jubilee either) and use their wrongful property tax and fee hikes to rob residents of their properties (fees: “impact,” environmental, building inspection fees and the like). They’re slowly exterminating their own countrymen in favor of foreign enemies (moved manufacturing to communist/fascist nations).
That is part of the making of a declaration or outcry, where the outcry (in prayers) is much more to fear.
It would only take 2-3 weeks for McDs and Wally World to seize the supply.
After that, or before that, massive ID theft due to "Incompetent govt security" Remember the IRS has real time access to just about everyone's bank account now!
To "Prove" your ID, is gonna be easy. Get chipped!
Your money or your eternal life!
This will be what O’Bola will be remembered for, bringing ebola and death to our country. Not Obamacare as he wants to be remembered for (yes he’s insane for thinking it’s a good thing).
He’s so liberally stupid, he wouldn’t stop this plague from coming here. He probably wants it here, but if he were smart he’d know this will ruin him and more importantly the Dem Rat Party for decades if hundreds or thousands of Americans die from his liberal policy of open borders and free travel by air from ebola laden countries.
I am glad to see the Ebola stickers. We need to see them everywhere. He owns this plague.
This is his fault.
Perfect.
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