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Ebola has arrived, apparently. A person from Liberia who didn't show symptoms on the plane is now in a Dallas hospital. There is a press conference scheduled for tonight.
What could possibly go wrong? certainly not an outbreak of Ebola in the US...
Actually, no. Since he wasn't showing any symptoms, they were not exposed.
Yeah, memorize that.
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I just read the article in your link. From the article:
Dr. Frieden did admit that is possible a family member or other person who had contact with the patient, while he was infectious, could develop Ebola in the coming weeks. But he said, “There is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
They have their work cut out for them. The guy went to the hospital initially, was treated for flu like symptoms and sent home. He went to the hospital a second time when his symptoms got worse. That's a whole slew of people that he came in contact with - family, others on two occasions in the waiting room at the hospital, admitting clerks, medical personnel, visitors to the hospital, parking attendants etc etc. If anyone in his family contracted it, then everybody they came in contact with at home, socially, professionally, in passing etc etc. A worthy story to keep tabs on.
Right - and at first he wasn't sick enough for them to "keep him," so he may even have gone through a drive through, stopped at an ATM, taken a taxi, gone to the drug store or WalMart or the grocery store for meds or Gatorade or whatever...
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When you stop to think about just how many people are around us on any given day, in close proximity, it's pretty significant. Throw in a little Texas sweat, or sneezing, or lack of handwashing, and you realize that you don't have to throw up on someone or smear feces on them to pass something along via body fluids.
I just read the article in your link. From the article:
Dr. Frieden did admit that is possible a family member or other person who had contact with the patient, while he was infectious, could develop Ebola in the coming weeks. But he said, “There is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
They have their work cut out for them. The guy went to the hospital initially, was treated for flu like symptoms and sent home. He went to the hospital a second time when his symptoms got worse. That's a whole slew of people that he came in contact with - family, others on two occasions in the waiting room at the hospital, admitting clerks, medical personnel, visitors to the hospital, parking attendants etc etc. If anyone in his family contracted it, then everybody they came in contact with at home, socially, professionally, in passing etc etc. A worthy story to keep tabs on.
Dallas just talked about the EMS workers that brought him to the hospital the second time.
Sounds like he was too sick to make the trip himself the second time round.
I would like to know all the connector flights he took in his itinerary.
They were reporting yesterday, he was in Atlanta for a day or two before coming to Dallas.
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