CDC: Ebola confirmed in Dallas patient
A patient in a Dallas hospital has been confirmed to have the Ebola virus, News 8 has learned.Read on wfaa.& #8203;com
From WFAA:
In a statement issued Tuesday night, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said the patient was admitted based on symptoms and "recent travel history."
The hospital, located at Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane in northeast Dallas, said it's complying with all recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and the Texas Department of Health to ensure the safety of other patients and medical staff.
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Yes. Let's immediately shut down the country's borders.
Yes, because it's extremely easy just to seal off an entire country.
LOL - Fluffy continues to entertain!
unless this is a quote from centuries ago and the native americans, it makes no sense.
the bad news it the fence won't be build between texas and mexico but between texas and the US.
People in Austin can get a waiver.
Smarter people than I have written some great pieces on why Ebola, in it's current form, does not have the capacity to cause epidemics like we have seen in Africa in the US. The Fear-mongering is gonna be unbearable.
And our medical staff isn't likely to run at the first sight of this?
Low-hanging fruit...
That's gotta be horseshit, right? My understanding was that Ebola killed people too quickly for such a spread, even in a disaster of a place like Liberia.
I've seen pts with possible multidrug resistant TB become, in no uncertain terms, prisoners of the hospital. They are quarantined and police are placed outside their room if it is thought that they are a flight risk. I have no doubt this patient is under STRICT surveillance and quarantine.
Not to mention we already had Ebola in the US. The doc survived and no one else was infected.
A lot of people are going to panic and a lot of people are going to say a lot of stupid stuff out of fear.
How many people did he sicken between then. Did he goto the grocery store? Gym? Mall?
How bad could it get? Ohh, the questions..
How many people did he sicken between then. Did he goto the grocery store? Gym? Mall?
How bad could it get? Ohh, the questions..
Unless he threw up on people or had unprotected sex in the grocery aisle I think we'll be okay...
You need to watch more Brad Pitt zombie movies.
"Not to mention we already had Ebola in the US. The doc survived and no one else was infected."
The doc who survived was flown here in a specially, CDC designed, small aircraft in which all occupants and the hospital to which he was admitted had prepared extensively in advance for one contagious person, who was given costly, intensive care quite soon after diagnosis was made.
This is quite a world apart from Ebola infected persons arriving in the US on commercial airliners/other common carriers and mingle in airports where neither the infected person nor the persons potentially exposed to the virus have a clue that he is infected.
Idiots
I thought you were better than this. I stand corrected.
Did you sound the alarm anywhere else besides BBI?
I'd worry about lab workers more than anyone. CDC is all over the place on guidelines; in some cases it says use BSL 3 but for many things they say BSL2 is ok. That's pretty much bench top. In truth few places are set up to do bulk testing under BSL3. But even with lab workers, we're talking very remote likelihood of infection.
The important points are no aerosol spread and no infectivity prior to being symptomatic. So the fellow air passengers are safe. Anything else is hysteria more than anything.
Of course the caveat, as it always is in life, is that it's not transmitted by aerosol until it is. There's no infective before symptoms, until,there is,
That's gotta be horseshit, right? My understanding was that Ebola killed people too quickly for such a spread, even in a disaster of a place like Liberia.
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