Posted on 10/15/2014 2:25:23 AM PDT by zeestephen
A second Texas healthcare worker who treated the first patient in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement on Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Uh oh...
Why do they care what his/her previous contacts were, he/she was immediately isolated after showing symptoms...
Or could it be that it isn’t really known yet at what point one is contagious... My guess is you get gradually more contagious as the virus replicates... Symptoms or not...
Hmmm...
Drip, drip, drip, ... The CDC is another corrupt gov’t agency.
also, from Fox, the Duncan family members are now being monitored on a daily basis for fever.
Re: “My guess is you get gradually more contagious as the virus replicates...”
Makes sense.
The first victim, who died, spent several days with family and friends.
As far as we know, none of his “unprotected” contacts have become infected.
A shocking number of victims in Africa have been health care workers.
I’m beginning to think that, in its late stages, Ebola can go airborne.
Even if a health care worker somehow has contact with bodily fluids, she would still need some kind of break in her skin to let the virus in.
Seems like the Duncan family members should have shown signs of infection by now.
They had several days of unprotected contact with the guy, but only the health care workers are getting sick.
Strange, and quite frightening.
I’m not going anywhere near a hospital or clinic until we understand more about this.
Wrong. No break in the skin other than mouth, nose, eyes, etc needed.
Her bodily fluids aren’t on these bricks, so why are they spraying in fully taped hazmat gear? And two healthcare workers now have Ebola, but Duncan’s lover and her family are well after contact with his vomit and feces for days. This makes no sense. It appears the government is lying to us once again.
LA Times reported: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-dallas-20141014-story.html#page=1
The Oakland-based nurses union does not represent the Dallas nurses, who are nonunionized, but has been vocal about what it says are hospitals’ failures to prepare for Ebola.
...oh now - it’s a union issue....gotta get that union started so people can speak out! ...I’m sure that would have made the difference...
Wasn’t it the UNIONS that supported Barak “Barry” Obama - that allowed this mess to enter out nation??? Had he actually been the leader he said he was - we wouldn’t be talking about this in the first place...
Makes sense.
Mucus - not mentioned in these lists of bodily fluids!? - is obviously airborn, with aerosolized virus in a sneeze or cough.
How many people did she/he come into contact with?
Thanks for posting. Thanks for the link, Timber Rattler from the SoFloFreeper thread that was just pulled…
http://blogs.cdc.gov/cdcdirector/2014/10/02/why-u-s-can-stop-ebola-in-its-tracks/
Health/life BTTT!
Any word on whether Jesse Jackson has been infected by the Duncan facility?
Hmmmm....... yes
A physician gave Rush and us the lesson yesterday. The fact a person is infected but shows no symptoms does not preclude passing on the virus. There are apparently no studies that shed light on shedding the virus before symptoms.
As I understood the man, the intensity of the virus may be less before symptoms and the virus in the shed fluids may be less but still there. To me that means the ability to shed (his language) is not controlled by an on/off switch but rather perhaps a gain control that achieves full volume coincidently with symptoms
Precious bodily fluids, Mandrake.
Have you ever been a POW, Mandrake?
Why, yes, yes I have, Jack.
Pity, they make such bloody good cameras, the Japanese.
You are contagious to a certain degree as soon as the virus enters your system, symptoms do not have to exist! When fluids start leaking all over the place the risk is certainly increased, but do you want to wait that long to start being careful?
Well, now we know why the gummint needed a billion rounds om 10 mm ammo. Ebola care.
"If the ratio stays 1:1, Ebola stays "under control". If only one more infection is found in the 21 day incubation period, it goes something like this:
3 weeks - 4 cases
6 weeks - 8 cases
9 weeks - 16 cases
12 weeks - 32 cases
15 weeks - 64 cases
18 weeks - 128 cases
And so on. It's called a geometric progression. In one year, it's 130,000 cases. The number of cases doubles every three weeks. "
The Duncan family are now past the point where they are likely to get sick. It is possible, but not likely.
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