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Texas nurse who had worn protective gear tests positive for Ebola
CNN.com ^ | 10/12/2014 | The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.

Posted on 10/12/2014 2:29:00 PM PDT by rdl6989

The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.

A nurse who had worn protective gear during her "extensive contact" at a Dallas hospital with an Ebola patient who died tested positive during a preliminary blood test, officials said Sunday.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ebola; texas
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I’m with you. EBOLA = CA here it comes.


81 posted on 10/12/2014 4:40:21 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: rdl6989

I think it’s not the suit but on removal of the suit where contamination occurs


82 posted on 10/12/2014 4:49:54 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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To: rdl6989

The nurse’s dog is alone in the sealed and guarded apartment. HAZMAT men cleaned around the outside of the guarded apartment. Reportedly, the dog will be “taken care of.”


83 posted on 10/12/2014 4:51:55 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: 353FMG
You think Obama will ever visit these troops?

Not a snow balls chance. He doesn't want to catch Ebola.

84 posted on 10/12/2014 5:01:14 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now)
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To: onyx

Guess I was wrong, the woman on the flight at LAX was from SOUTH Africa, said she gets sick on planes(Probably suffers from air sickness, happens to my sister too) at least they checked..but eventually it will happen here..the liberals who are SO gleeful that its hit Texas won’t be laughing when karma bites them in the ass


85 posted on 10/12/2014 5:06:39 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Right.


86 posted on 10/12/2014 5:08:28 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: rdl6989

They’d have to pay me extra to work with ebola patients. A whole bunch of extra.


87 posted on 10/12/2014 5:12:14 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: Blue Highway

Not bloodstream...but droplets in the eyes, nose, and mouth have always worked.


88 posted on 10/12/2014 5:12:24 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Maybe 10-15 infected West African ‘ebola escapee’ travellers circulating around Wash DC, contacting 1000s, and then dying in local hospitals and infecting 10-20 health care workers - maybe it will take an out of control disaster like that to get the attention of O’Bola, Frieden and their perception-management experts.

But I know they’re psychotically out of touch.


89 posted on 10/12/2014 5:20:31 PM PDT by franzpick
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To: Dick Vomer
I think it’s not the suit but on removal of the suit where contamination occurs

Very possible.

You know, no one except for long-term employees of Level IV biocontainment facilities (all 19 of them), is really thoroughly trained in the use of Level 4 gear, and more or less the same for Level 2. Pretty much everyone else has been rushed into this to some degree. So don't believe it when they say it isn't possible that medical providers and technicians can't make a mistake and breach protocol. Most certainly they can. Add in the normal propensities to rush things and overlook details and the rest and you WILL have breaches.

90 posted on 10/12/2014 5:28:39 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: rdl6989

They are keeping a tight lid on this thing. I do not know anyone directly involved but did talk to a person who knows those directly involved in the investigation.

All that has escaped was that it was an inpatient nurse and theory is improper removal of PPE or a dialysis related contamination.


91 posted on 10/12/2014 5:56:34 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: rdl6989

The most difficult part of the training is the sequence and methodology for disrobing. One little error here, and it is all over. The protective stuff works fine, but the taking off procedure is the killer.


92 posted on 10/12/2014 5:57:23 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$)
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To: steve86

Great points, and absolutely agree.
It’s absolutely ridiculous for anyone in medicine, let alone politicians and MSM people, to make dogmatic pronouncements about what can and cannot happen with this virus. We don’t even fully understand its biology. Science without skepticism and humility is stupidity on steroids.


93 posted on 10/12/2014 6:07:34 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: rdl6989

It is becoming a distinction without a difference.


94 posted on 10/12/2014 6:18:24 PM PDT by daisy12
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To: rdl6989

Bottom line: it demonstrates just how contagious it is, and how easy it is to contaminate the equipment that is supposed to protect the caregivers. That’s exactly why quarantines are necessary.


95 posted on 10/12/2014 6:43:16 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Obola will probably order all cases to be sent to Dallas, Texas.


96 posted on 10/12/2014 7:39:25 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport all illegal aliens. Americans demand those jobs back! Hoorah, Arizona!)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
I am somewhat trained in hazardous waste safety. More of a “you need it to be at the site” thing, but years ago would have to suit up for real in Level C.

It was just heavy metals, oils, etc. - so nothing to bad. Maybe give you cancer if you got too much, but nothing like Ebola. Taking off the gloves was always tricky - but if you got a smudge of oil on your wrist it was no big deal. A “smudge” of Ebola is a whole ‘nother thing.

I have always thought that spraying you down with an invisible, fluorescent substance before you decon would be a good idea. Do the decon, use a black light to confirm you got the substance (and nasties) off you before you take off the gear.

97 posted on 10/12/2014 7:57:21 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: samtheman

Go listen to the whole speech from this guy at the CDC. Such Doublespeak and linear thinking. They didn’t say they know of a specific breach in protocol, like she touched him with an ungloved hand or touched something he wiped his nose with. He’s saying there “must” have been a breach in protocol because, by golly, we know that the protocols work so therefore if she got it there “must” have been a breach in the protocol. This is the type of logic that brought you “the Maginot line is impenetrable, therefore those can not be German soldiers, because to get here they would have to get through the Maginot line, which as we told you, cannot be penetrated”.

But what if the protocols aren’t enough? I’m not suggesting the disease may be completely airborne, but what if a sneeze or cough puts the virus in the air for much longer than they know? Bottom line is it sounds like the CDC is spinning here.


98 posted on 10/12/2014 8:06:49 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Either the parasites kill the host, or the host removes the parasites. By amputation if needed.)
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To: GeronL
when you have policemen or firemen or sewer workers the best most complete, most expensive and extensive isolation gear is provided....

for hospital nurses, you're lucky if you have enough gowns in your isolation cart and your total assignment is not one iota less than someone without an isolation patient....

iows....TPTB don't care about the actual nurses taking care of these people....we're expendable and we get the lack of staff and lack of supplies that shows it....

99 posted on 10/12/2014 8:18:21 PM PDT by cherry
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To: daisy12

The problem is that the CDC protocol is faulty.

From the pictures, the PPE the docs and nurses were wearing were inadequate levels of protection to prevent infection

This nurse may not be the last member of the Duncan care team to become infected.


100 posted on 10/12/2014 8:20:24 PM PDT by rdcbn
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