Posted on 10/23/2014 12:05:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Dr. Craig Spencer, who returned to New York City from Africa 10 days ago, was rushed in an ambulance with a police escort from his Harlem home to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, sources said.
He was suffering from Ebola-like symptoms — a 103-degree fever and nausea, sources said.
While he was in Africa, the doctor had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea, sources said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Today, EMS HAZ TAC Units transferred to Bellevue Hospital a patient who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms.
The patient is a health care worker who returned to the U.S. within the past 21 days from one of the three countries currently facing the outbreak of this virus.
The patient was transported by a specially trained HAZ TAC unit wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). After consulting with the hospital and the CDC, DOHMH has decided to conduct a test for the Ebola virus because of this patient’s recent travel history, pattern of symptoms, and past work. DOHMH and HHC are also evaluating the patient for other causes of illness, as these symptoms can also be consistent with salmonella, malaria, or the stomach flu.
Preliminary test results are expected in the next 12 hours.”
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/diseases/ebola-stmt-nyc.shtml
I wonder how widespread this is and if were are just seeing those that make it into the media?
Yeah, that's what I've been afraid of. I wasn't worried too much about Dallas, but if you get it in Chicago or New York--Harlem, no less--then it has real potential.
I hope he took the bus to the hospital...Obola says you can’t catch it on a bus. Obola always tells the truth and knows what he’s doing.
Meanwhile, De Blasio is trying to get healthcare coverage for ‘immigrants’.
Why bother closing the borders? We’ll just invite them all here for some freebies.
If the Harlem resident does test positive I see a diminished need for halloween candy in the Harlem area as trick-or-treaters may not be very numerous.
>>>"That's not just a feeling. It's reality. They are all just winging it"
I really think it's the non-linearity of this (nothing like most medical staff have seen in their experience) and the tremendous amount of uncertainty involved until a test result comes back. Even then, false negatives can be a problem in early tests.
Maybe we can get him to hook up with the soon to be ex-MD Nancy Schneiderman?
I wonder if he came back because he thought he might have Ebola? He has been here 10 days. He would have had to have caught it near the time he left.
Maybe he has malaria or that Marburg or whatever it’s called disease.
Bellevue? Interesting choice. Wonder if the choice was made based on level of care available, distance or some other criteria because in one article he is identified as “Dr. Craig Spencer of Columbia University Medical Center”.
Does Columbia have an Ebola ward?
Isnt Columbia a better facility that the one he is going to?
“The 33-year-old doctor, Craig Spencer, 33, had quarantined himself inside his Harlem apartment after his fever spiked,
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That’s not my idea of a quarantine for ebola.
Doctor Who treated obola patients? Really?
I personally wouldn’t want to take a blood transfusion from a person who had been to the ebola hot zone. I would be scared that even if they were asymptomatic, their blood would infect me. I wouldn’t also want to have sex with someone who was recently in an ebola hot zone either, until I was sure that either the virus was out of her system, or that she wasn’t infected at all.
As for travel, given how confusing early ebola symptoms are with norovirus or flu symptoms, I think a whole lot of people aren’t going to want to travel by air for the season.
That’s good to know.
EXTERMINATE!
“His apartment will have to be gutted like Amber Vinson’s”
There does not appear to be environmental persistence of EHFV RNA even with end stage disease.
The patient in this case seems a good, compassionate man but the protocal for a physician returing from treating Ebola patients would seem to be lackadaisical at best. You know the guy has been exposed multiple times. He should have been isolated for 21 days after his last exposure. Common sense loses to PC once again.
A lot of smug Easterners criticized the backward hospitals in that hick state of Texas. Okay, we’ll soon find out if they can do any better in NYC.
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