Posted on 10/16/2014 9:13:48 AM PDT by Columbo
A Yale University student who recently returned from Liberia has been admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital to be evaluated for Ebola-like symptoms, according to officials from New Haven Mayor Toni Harp's office and Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Two Yale students who had been conducting research in Liberia returned on Saturday, Oct. 11 and have been kept in voluntary sequestration, Laurence Grothier, Director of Communication for Mayor Harp.
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It’s better to wait for a confirmation. I was in Africa (Nigeria) for a month in the 80’s. Came down with fever, runs, vomiting. Cause - the water. I avoided drinking it, avoided using it for teeth brushing, nearly showered with a plastic bag over my head, etc.
It is SO easy for a North American to come down with something from Africa.
Because of the rank incompetence of the Obola Administration, and the handcuffing done in order to keep the borders open for as long as he possibly can before the midterm, anyone from Africa who presents as much as a sneeze is going to get the protocol. You can come in with a hangnail, and they’ll recommend voluntary quarantine at this point.
You should hear what’s going on in Ohio this AM. Wait for confirmation.
NO one knows, or is telling, at this time.
I am only a generation removed from Africa, and also had a close relative who was an infectious disease researcher and periodically worked in Africa, so I have heard all about the diseases from there. My point is that there response is quite different on this than other similar cases, and I refuse to believe that they don’t have enough at this point to “know”, even if they cannot officially confirm.
But what is going on in Ohio?
LOTS of Twitter chatter that the Yale case has been confirmed to be Ebola, but no kind of official confirmation, yet.
Testing takes about 12 hours. We’ll know soon enough.
Schools and businesses shutting down. 132 people on the original flight with Typhoid Vinson, and then the airline put it back into service after their standard cleaning regimen.
People are freaking out over there.
One person they had contact with contracted ebola subsequently. Sounds like low risk, but still a risk.
its going viral san diego
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Student-at-Southwestern-College-under-quarantine-for-Ebola-279453812.html
I agree it would be weird to vacation in Liberia right now. These two were there to fight ebola, by helping set up a computer network to track ebola cases. That seems like a good thing to me. They weren't there to interact with patients.
As for the rest of Africa, I'm not sure why it's dangerous to be in Tanzania or Ghana or South Africa or any other country that has zero cases of ebola. You're more likely to run into an ebola patient in the US than you are there.
Monrovia is closer to New York than it is to Johannesburg.
That (Ohio) is the natural result of the lack of transparency and the appearance, at least, of general dishonesty, especially with respect to the non-stop attempts to trivialize risk. People may be “freaking out”, but that is the inevitable result of people feeling like they are being placed in a situation where panic, or an “abundance of caution” (to reuse a completely overused phrase), is the rational response, because those they count on to do their worrying for them, aren’t acting like they are doing anything other than downplay.
As far as the 12 hours go, the final outcome is irrelevant to my point that this is a very different response than similar cases.
That's your definition of airborne but not the epidemiological definition.
True, but traveling to/from and hanging around airports might get you killed.
We have a friend on her way to South Africa -- tried to discourage her.
Although many people with ebola have taken flights, not one person has contracted ebola on a flight to date and there was only one incident where anybody caught ebola in an airport. That took place in Lagos, Nigeria when a gentleman arriving from Liberia started vomiting blood in the terminal, and janitors and medical personnel responded without taking basic precautions.
Your friend's chances of catching ebola while traveling to a country without any ebola cases whatsoever are essentially zero. She has a greater chance of being struck by lightning on the way to the airport -- that's literally the case, not a metaphor. There are plenty of health and safety concerns for travelers to South Africa and ebola isn't one of them.
If your friend notices someone vomiting blood in the terminal, she should alert authorities and not clean it up herself. Hopefully that’s common sense.
The other thing to watch out for is traveling to areas that could quickly see their h.c. system crumble if there is any kind of panic. I don’t think S. Africa qualifies (I was impressed when I went there recently), but in general it is a good thing to consider when traveling. You don’t want to have a simple accident turn into a life-threatening situation because the hospitals are closing their doors because their staff is all at home.
Good point and that can happen here, too.
Gov Mallocup says they will know at 400PM EDT today.
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