Posted on 10/16/2014 3:39:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
DALLAS, Texas – The only dog in the United States currently in quarantine over Ebola fears seems to be doing well.
Bentley has been moved to a home-like atmosphere for his monitoring.
His minders, who have dubbed themselves The B Team, are taking pictures of the pup and sending out regular progress reports.
Bentley is the beloved dog of nurse Nina Pham who contracted Ebola from a patient while helping treat him at her dallas hospital.
Pham was moved to a National Institutes of Health Facility in Maryland today.
In Spain, the dog of a Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola was euthanized.
It is a move that was highly controversial since it’s unclear if dogs could even transmit the virus to humans.
Also likely scared out of his little mind; his mistress is missing, the apartment is sealed off (no walks and going outside), these weird people show up and invade his home space, he’s forced to deal being chased/caught/leashed and then shoved in a cage, then transported into the outside, but instead of a nice calm lawn with friendly people, he’s being carried into a lawn loaded with police and cars and ambulances and he’s being handled by people in space suits and he can’t even see the face or make some kind of psychosocial or friendly connection.
My eyes would be wide open and glazed as well.
That dog is scared
We would be better served by testing and observation. If he’s not sick, chances are there’s no point in killing the poor thing.
I understand that the dogs are carriers of the virus...they do not show symptoms. Play with this dog at your own risk!
Wasn't that the name of the dog featured in the Meg Ryan movie a few years ago?
Based on the overwhelming evidence that the CDC and this administration have no clue as to what they are dealing with and how to deal with it, do you REALLY, REALLY wanna believe this CDC when they say your dog can carry the ebola virus??????
Sweet little guy...he wonders where his mistress is. :(
I hope she gets well very quickly, for her sake and for his, as well.
I couldn’t say but be the dog is a cute little guy or gal (not sure).
I think I explained myself in post #26........
This is all BS, the CDC has no idea what they are doing..........
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The dogs do not “get sick”.
As for the tests, there are many false negatives, and apparently tests need to be doubled but spread apart significantly.
That is alot of quarantine time and effort.
I do not think so. Don’t know how it works exactly but if they cannot get what they need from this carrier, I bet they die in a few weeks.
The dogs don’t get sick. The real question is whether they are contagious while they are dealing with the virus. I haven’t heard an answer to that yet.
I do not know that anyone has done the experiments to determine whether dogs that have Ebola are actually contagious. In principle, it is an easy enough experiment to design and carry out.
Amen!
From what I have read..Texas A&M, that has one of the finest veterinary schools in the country is on this.
If there is a problem...they will know.
It’s not the CDC that says it. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the CDC’s minimizing the risk, the dog probably would have been put down.
People here don’t eat dogs, which would be one way of getting it (as it was gotten from fruit bats and other bush meat) but they do live very closely with their dogs, share food with them, let their lick them, etc. And dogs are scavengers by nature, which is why they are always picking up icky things when you walk them, so the chance of their spreading this among themselves is pretty high. But they don’t have any symptoms themselves because it doesn’t seem to make them sick (same with the bats).
So I think that before they move this dog into a kennel with other dogs, they should keep it isolated for the regular period of time, test it regularly, and then, unfortunately, if it is infected, they should put it down. Otherwise every dog in the neighborhood will be carrying it soon.
That picture is from when they first removed him from the apartment.
You do realize that everything this administration and the CDC know about the virus is what the scientists who have been researching it for decades, and the doctors and other health care workers who have responded to Ebola outbreaks for decades have told them, don't you? They have access to all the knowledge there is about Ebola.
The fact that dogs can get Ebola without symptoms was determined by testing dogs in Africa during an outbreak.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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