I heard the nurse in Dallas has a dog, but this dog will NOT be put down so that is good news..and yes, the CDC totally threw this woman under the bus..they won’t admit how this disease is truly spread so instead they blame the victim
Thank God, somebody finally actually read that CDC paper from 2005. I have been very angered by the wild panic and “they say” rumor-spreading about dogs and Ebola. Yes they can test seropositive for antibodies to Ebola. There is no evidence whatsoever that transmission of Ebola from a dog to a human has ever occurred. Dogs never become symptomatic, they don’t “catch” the disease per se. Asymptomatic means no transmission in other species. Given the evidence from Africa, it means the same in dogs.
Dogs asymtomatically carry the most deadly virus ever loosed on our nation. By all means, save the dog, because there’s never been a documented case of a dog passing this level 4 pathogen to humans, yet. Do you want to be there when/if it is documented?
Also, the mentioned that putting the patient through kidney dialysis was particularly dicey ...
As well as doing a respiratory intubation of the patient.
I get the feeling this nurse was really involved with this guy. The CDC says that touching any of the tubing or machinery in this whole process is very dangerous.
My prayers out to her and her dog.