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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| First Ebola walk-in, Dallas Presbyterian Hospital |
| 2014-10-01 |
| Traveled from Liberia to the United States; travel restrictions would have been discriminatory. It was only a matter of time. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #34 HOUSTON, Texas -- Liberian government officials have identified the patient who brought the Ebola virus to the United States as Thomas Eric Duncan. Duncan lives in Monrovia and is said to be in his mid-forties. Duncan is the first person to bring an undiagnosed case of Ebola to the United States. Duncan had direct contact with an Ebola patient in Liberia shortly before his departure to the United States according to a report on Wednesday in the New York Times by Norimitsu Onishi. Duncan helped to carry a pregnant woman who was near death from the Ebola virus back to her home after the family was refused treatment by hospital officials because of overcrowding in their Ebola treatment ward. This occurred on September 15th and the Ebola patient died later that night at 3 a.m. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/1/Liberian-Government-Identifies-Dallas-Ebola-Patient |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-01 21:40 |
| #33 "How would ObamaCare handle this?" Encourage them to die, John. Soon. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-10-01 21:08 |
| #32 Surprise, Surprise, Surprise. Right now there are thousands of Ebola victims in Liberia, and none of them have access to medical care. So, those who can get out to somewhere that has some. This is normal and should be expected. These kind of things are going to happen regularly all around the world, until this starts to taper off in the spring. The key thing is controlling access to infected people each time they turn up for the week or so they are contagious. That is what the medical folks in Dallas are doing now. Take heart in that Nigeria had 20 or so cases last month, but has none now. Why, because they did exactly the right thing and tracked down all potentially contagious people and isolated them. Any U.S. city is more able to deal with this than Nigeria, so the risk of more than a few handful of cases from each introduction in the U.S. or other modern states is vanishingly small. When this happens to places less modern than Nigeria though, there will be problems. These are countries like: Somalia, South Sudan, Chad, Haiti, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Niger, and Sierra Leone. They are the canaries in the coal mine, so to speak. If those countries can keep a lid on Ebola for the next three months or so, than this is going to subside. |
| Posted by: rammer 2014-10-01 20:29 |
| #31 Just caught a story that said the Ebola vector 1 patient didn't fly in to the country at DFW, but transited through Dulles. The plot thickens. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-01 20:25 |
| #30 AH, this sounds like the "scandal" that's embroiling the University of Michigan football team. QB gets a mild concussion doesn't get communicated to the coach and doctors etc. QB goes back in the game........AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE ON SPORTS SHOWS EVERYWHERE!!!!!! Ebola gets set loose in Dallas due to miscommunication......and crickets. I feel there's something wrong here. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-01 19:46 |
| #29 How would ObamaCare handle this? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-01 18:40 |
| #28 I certainly hope Dallas Presbyterian has a strong legal team. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 17:38 |
#27 More on the TX ER that dropped the ball, from WaPo: The man in Texas who tested positive for Ebola told hospital officials he had traveled from West Africa when he sought treatment on Friday, but that information was not relayed to everyone treating him at that time, authorities said Wednesday. As a result, the man was diagnosed with a “low-grade, common viral disease” and sent home that day, said Mark C. Lester, executive vice president of the health-care system that includes Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the Dallas facility treating the Ebola patient. “Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team,” Lester said during a news conference Wednesday. “As a result, the full import of that information wasn’t factored into the clinical decision-making.” Communication of that kind of information ain't rocket surgery. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-01 17:34 |
| #26 Thanks TW for posting the reference to the trash bag improvisation. Always welcome, dear mom. If you would be so kind as to show it to James, I'd be grateful. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-01 17:26 |
#25 IQ-67 entitlement crowd Even the Free Lunch Army has its Special Forces.
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| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-01 15:46 |
| #24 Ebola man, Charlottesville, VA. dreadlock killer, OK city beheader, CDC felon guard, Ferguson, Mo. cop shooter.... generally a bad couple of weeks for the IQ-67 entitlement crowd. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 15:25 |
| #23 Ok, so what do we do when ISIS decides to vector us a few dozen people exposed to Ebola ? Applaud. Given who they are, they're sure to infect themselves. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-01 15:17 |
| #22 Ok, so what do we do when ISIS decides to vector us a few dozen people exposed to Ebola ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 15:07 |
| #21 Texas gov sez Ebola man had contact with children. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 15:05 |
| #20 On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent back to the northeast Dallas apartment complex where he was staying with a prescription for antibiotics. Duncan's sister, Mai Wureh, said he notified health-care workers that he was visiting from Liberia when they asked for his Social Security number and he told them he didn't have one. Missed the main chance there. I wonder which hospital ER that was. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-01 14:59 |
| #19 A mysterious African fever Is dissed as an underachiever. When he takes to the air He'll be known everywhere; If you hear him, you'll be a believer. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-10-01 14:40 |
| #18 "with the help of the NSA they ARE watching everyone" It would really help if the CDC and NSA didn't have to contend with the 'Jamie S. Gorelick Memorial Wall' between the agencies. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-10-01 13:42 |
| #17 Thanks TW for posting the reference to the trash bag improvisation. Taxis in Monrovia are a vector for transmitting the disease, because sweat is a body fluid, and Liberia is hot. So is Texas. This is going to be interesting. |
| Posted by: mom 2014-10-01 13:41 |
| #16 Finally, something more dreaded than I-35. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 13:14 |
#15 Still gotta go with my 2nd favorite city (after Lexington, VA) has the place to watch. There could be Panic In The Streets. Say something nice about the US Health Service. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-01 13:12 |
| #14 AND, Liberians in Dallas are taxi drivers. Working out of the Dallas International Airport. They love to socialize at the taxi stands, so this has a real possibility of spreading nationally. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-01 12:52 |
| #13 HERE WE GO US> Second case of Ebola in Dallas |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-01 12:00 |
| #12 #5 it's one way to suppress voter turn out. Low information voters won't get the message anyway to stay away from lines. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-10-01 10:49 |
| #11 Something to note for future reference: Woman saves three relatives from Ebola Fatu Kekula has cared for four of her family members with Ebola, keeping three alive without infecting herself. (CNN) -- It can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu, so imagine how 22-year-old Fatu Kekula felt nursing her entire family through Ebola. Her father. Her mother. Her sister. Her cousin. Fatu took care of them all, single-handedly feeding them, cleaning them and giving them medications. And she did so with remarkable success. Three out of her four patients survived. That's a 25% death rate -- considerably better than the estimated Ebola death rate of 70%. Fatu stayed healthy, which is noteworthy considering that more than 300 health care workers have become infected with Ebola, and she didn't even have personal protection equipment -- those white space suits and goggles used in Ebola treatment units. Instead Fatu, who's in her final year of nursing school, invented her own equipment. International aid workers heard about Fatu's "trash bag method" and are now teaching it to other West Africans who can't get into hospitals and don't have protective gear of their own. Go read the whole thing. This young woman will go far, if she lives through this. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-01 10:40 |
| #10 Presbyterian Hospital is pretty much a top of the line hospital somewhere around the same category as Dallas's Medical City Hospital. Very sharp people, that is why they were ready for Ebola. They ain't stupid so Dallas is lucky to a small degree. Now as far as Dallas over all with the huge foreign population, those areas will most likely be impacted with the virus in my opinion. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-01 10:20 |
| #9 they are watching everyone the guy came in contact with. Well, with the help of the NSA they ARE watching everyone, period. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-10-01 08:39 |
| #8 Timeline: •September 19: The adult patient boards a flight to the U.S. in Liberia after being screened for Ebola symptoms •September 20: The patient arrives in the United States •September 24: Patient shows first symptoms of Ebola •September 26: Patient seeks initial medical care •September 28: Patient admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas So the guy was walking around 4 days with symptoms - 2 after he first sought medical help. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-10-01 08:38 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 08:28 |
| #6 Any bets on next? Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Philly, NY, Boston? (air hubs with direct links) Maybe WorldPort (UPS) in Louisville. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-10-01 08:21 |
| #5 Flooding Texas with |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 07:41 |
| #4 His second trip to the hospital, because nobody dreamed he might have Ebola, having returned from visiting family in Liberia on September 20th. Dallas has about 10,000 Liberians in residence, according to the radio this morning. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-10-01 07:37 |
| #3 This is the Obama administration we're talking about. What could possibly go wrong? |
| Posted by: Matt 2014-10-01 07:32 |
#2  We've brought in some of our top men. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-01 04:02 |
| #1 The CDC says no worries, it can totally be contained. Besides, they are watching everyone the guy came in contact with. To see if they get it so they can watch whoever *they* came in contact with. I am totally reassured by this. In other news, a mystery respiratory virus that sometimes causes paralysis is sending kids to intensive care in 40 states and Canada. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-10-01 03:44 |