Posted on 01/20/2015 6:38:12 AM PST by Rockitz
A health care worker returning from Sierra Leone has sparked a new Ebola scare in the US after she was pulled off a United Airlines flight in Newark and rushed to the hospital on Monday.
The woman, whose name has not been released, reportedly vomited aboard United flight 45 from Brussels and suffered from a high fever - both early signs of the deadly disease.
She is currently at Hackensack University Medical Center, undergoing tests for Ebola - though doctors said she no longer had a fever when she arrived at the hospital and is no longer showing signs of infection.
She was being kept at the hospital on Tuesday 'in an abundance of caution.'
The Bergen County Record reports that the woman was returning to the US from Sierra Leone, a West African nation where health workers are still working to bring Ebola under control.
The virus has infected an estimated 10,000 people there and killed more than 3,000.
Passengers told the Record that healthcare workers in hazmat suits met the plane when it landed about 2pm on Monday.
'Doctors say I'm immune, but I don't plan to test that':...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I guess she forgot to “wash her hands.”
Reassuring to be a passenger on the plane, watching as people in hazmat suits remove a passenger sitting near you.
Maybe she had the salmon mousse.
He sure is doing a good job. Never before have I seen such a big news story dissolve into thin air.
We went from people dropping like flies over in Africa, scares galore over here, to NOTHING.
They’re still “dropping like flies” with no end in sight.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/cumulative-cases-graphs.html
Just before I saw the article on www.nj.com re “the passenger”* removed from the flight, I heard on the radio (can’t remember station) that there was only 1 case per day now being reported in Sierra Leone, that all the treatment centers built by the US military weren’t being used and that the CDC had “overestimated” the potential death threat.
Ha,ha!
*The passenger was NOT identified as a healthcare worker. AND that hospital is intended only for “observation” of air travelers, not treatment of Ebola, per that www.nj.com article.
Here we go again.
Bring Out Your Dead
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...
An abundance of caution would have been to keep her in Sierra Leone.
We still have that troop who dropped dead in Ft Hood after returning from Africa. Info about him seems to have been quite cut off. I wonder how many active cases there are in CONUS right now. I bet it is more than one or two.
Oh but there is no danger from ebola. 0bama told the media to suppress news about so as not to create “panic.”
(panic is when more than 2 people call congressional offices to complain)
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
Where'd that quote come from? I didn't see it in the article.
Also, it was a false alarm. She was just sick. And she had no contact with any Ebola patients while she was overseas.
Still Fearful as infection rate slows:
For the ongoing Ebola epidemic, 2015 seems to have ushered in a hopeful new chapter: in Liberia, treatment centres are sitting empty; in Guinea, kids are finally heading back to school; and in Sierra Leone, the president is predicting zero new cases by end of March.On Tuesday, the World Health Organization reported 75 new infections since the day before — relatively good news considering that in October, the UN health agency was predicting up to 10,000 new cases every week by this point.
Note that 75 new cases a day is a lot, but less than the worst case week, and much less than the alarmist projections of a month or two ago.
He didn’t die of Ebola. Info didn’t “cut off”, media lost interest when it seemed possible he was just another suicide.
There is virtually no danger from Ebola. You are more likely to die slipping in your shower this morning than to catch Ebola.
So if you want to say that your shower is dangerous, you could also say that Ebola poses some risk.
Through luck, providence, or actual hard work, we have managed to pretty much keep this country Ebola-free.
I just looked and it looks like the story has been edited since I first spotted it. There was another sentence that just ended mid-sentence in the original posting so I suspect this is another of those.
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