Posted on 10/24/2014 4:50:08 AM PDT by blam
Jonathan Lemire
October 24, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who became New York City's first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation's most populous city need not fear his wide-ranging travel in the days before his illness began.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged residents not to be alarmed by the doctor's diagnosis Thursday, even as they described him riding the subway, taking a cab and bowling since returning to New York from Guinea a week ago. De Blasio said all city officials followed "clear and strong" protocols in their handling and treatment of him.
"We want to state at the outset that New Yorkers have no reason to be alarmed," de Blasio said. "New Yorkers who have not been exposed are not at all at risk."
The doctor, Craig Spencer, a member of Doctors Without Borders, reported Thursday morning coming down with a 103-degree fever and diarrhea. He was being treated in an isolation ward at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, a designated Ebola center.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which will do a further test to confirm the initial results, has dispatched an Ebola response team to New York. President Barack Obama spoke to Cuomo and de Blasio Thursday night and offered the federal government's support. He asked them to stay in close touch with Ron Klain, his "Ebola czar," and public health officials in Washington.
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That is the ONLY test that will weed out these cases....before they get here.
You want to go to the USA....have a blood test and get cleared.
Imbed the results in the passport.
So you have to put off your trip for a couple days....Too damn bad!!
This guy's an absolute genius, eh?
Immediately is a poor word choice. HE said he felt bad for two days. For Joe Blow on the street, that would be nothing but for a doc who worked in the hot zone? Come on! At a minimum he should have self-quarantined until he could rule out Øbola. NOT head out to public venues using public transportation. Nope, the praise is NOT warranted.
He was STUPID for doing what he did.
S T U P I D that spells Moon.
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I see what you did there.
Well played sir, well played!
When will these morons get serious? Anyone who comes back from that region, let alone someone who treated Ebola patients, should come back via charter, have an ankle tracking bracelet clamped on them, and then told to stay in their house or apartment for 28 days - 7 longer than incubation period. I don’t have a problem with tax dollars going to help support such a person, such as delivery of groceries to their home - heck, look at all the money we are spending on military and we do need medical staff to help control the outbreak at the source - but our current domestic Ebola policies are just dicing with death. If we don’t start taking this seriously, sooner or later we’re going to come up snake eyes and we’ll get a larger-scale outbreak here.
Time to demand that they have a blood test abd cleared before they come here.
The easiest and ONLY means of really knowing if someone has the disease.
Three people sounds pretty small for a man who traveled all over NYC. If the virus gets bad enough by mutation, we may have to surrender NYC to the lizard-men and the apes.
Anyone suppose it was deliberate?
I am so confused here. What is it with these doctors and nurses...really...WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEM?!
Yeah, I self-quarantined and then went all over the city and even bowling for an evening, even though I wasn’t feeling quite right....I flew across the country to pick out bridesmaid dresses...I took a cruise all under quarantine....
Is one of the early symptoms of Ebola and loss of common sense? I know they can become “runners” later in the disease, but I chalked that up to stress on the body ...but does it affect the brain earlier than we think?
I cannot believe that infectious disease doctors and nurses are this flippant about a deadly virus? Something else has to be at work here and it may mean forced quarantine for people coming from affected countries...or heaven forbid a travel ban!
People expect me to not come near someone who has AIDS or chemotherapy if I was at risk for a TB infection, wish I could say the same for possible ebola infection.
IMHO, they ought to open a new quarantine facility on ellis island, or build replicas of the plastic containers that they stuck Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in to protect us from lunar diseases.
Why should they worry? /s
Seems odd that the guy rode all over town on trains and apparently went bowling and less than 24 hours laters his cells are bursting from a viral infection. Sure seems like there would have been some early symptoms that this guy would have uniquely qualified to recognize.
M O O N that spells idiot
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Today's first entry in the Famous Last Words competition . . .
He is by far the stupidest mayor we’ve had - and that’s saying a lot.
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