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| NYC has first Ebola case: Physician back from Guinea a week tests positive | ||||
| 2014-10-24 | ||||
Dr. Craig Spencer, who recently returned from disease-wracked West African country Guinea after working with Doctors Without Borders, hit the lanes in Williamsburg and used Uber taxis to get around, sources said. The shocking revelation that Spencer was roaming around town — after first telling authorities he self-quarantined himself — emerged after the 33-year-old was hauled off to Bellevue Hospital in a protective suit with symptoms of the deadly disease.
Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, was hauled off Thursday to Bellevue Hospital in a protective suit with symptoms of the deadly disease. Sources said his temperature was normal when he landed at Kennedy Airport 10 days ago. But it spiked to a 103-degree fever by early Thursday. And he was vomiting, the sources said. FDNY hazardous materials specialists sealed-off Spencer’s apartment on W. 147th St. and took the doctor out on a stretcher. Test results were released about 8:30 p.m. Thursday night. While sources said Spencer claimed to have self-quarantined after feeling ill, he was at a pair of bowling spots in Willliamsburg, Brooklyn on Wednesday. He used Uber taxis to get around, sources said. An agitated woman who identified herself as Spencer’s fiancée showed up later at Bellevue. She has since been quarantined, sources said.
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| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #9 It's all crap paid actors not one person that has gone in sick has had symptoms released in press nor one interview given by any one of them except the few?!?(ungrateful for not having e bola and not wanting their 15 minutes )4 living with someone puking bleeding and shitting all over nobody sick ? one billion a piece just to keep them chained up producing blood and antibodies weird huh? People being whisked away from hospitals in Kansas Alex Jones ? Just the BLM getting dates for the Halloween Ball howz about a kiss baby bloody tongue is bloody good and the holes come pre lubed! Happy Halloween! |
| Posted by: Whulet Shavins7256 2014-10-24 19:09 |
| #8 An agitated woman a case of denial breaking down can be horrible to watch. I wonder if she will still marry that physician. What would you do? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-24 15:24 |
| #7 You come near an Ebola patient, you sit it out for 21 days. I wonder what the protocols are for the NIH and Emory hospital Ebola caretakers. Do they just live inside the hospitals? It would almost make sense. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-24 15:22 |
| #6 SteveS is's been reported that the temperature was 100.3, so I'd cut a little more slack. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-24 13:03 |
| #5 From a NYT link Pappy posted in another thread: Dr. Spencer’s fiancée has also been quarantined at Bellevue. Two other friends, who had contact with him on Tuesday and Wednesday, have been told by the authorities that they too will be quarantined but whether they will isolate themselves in their homes or be relocated was still under discussion, according to a person briefed on the investigation. None of the three were showing signs of illness. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-24 10:46 |
| #4 NYPD doing an OUTSTANDING job with the Ebola protocols |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-10-24 09:32 |
| #3 This guy has been wandering about NYC. You'd think he would know better being a doctor. Everyone coming from an Ebola country ought to be quarantined for 21 days prior to entering the U.S. or there ought to be restrictions on entering the country until the epidemic gets tamped down in these countries. Apparently, "quarantine" has become a banished word in the communist lexicon thanks to PC. At one time, quarantines were fairly routine in the U.S. as a tool to halt the spread of contagious and dangerous diseases. We have lost all common sense. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-24 08:39 |
| #2 You come near an Ebola patient, you sit it out for 21 days. Come on, get it sorted. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-10-24 04:34 |
| #1 Dr Spencer is a fellow of international emergency medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, and an instructor in clinical medicine at Columbia University. Dr. Spencer may be brave and noble and smart, but he is also an idiot. To go from treating Ebola patients to walking around New York without some sort of quarantine period is beyond reckless. Part of the problem may be the difficulty our chimp brains have with non-linear phenomena. One week you feel fine, next week you have a touch of the flu, the week after, you are dead. No slow period of decline, just the exponential growth of the number of virus particles in your body. Note that the good doctor passed airport sceening, but 10 days later, was vomiting with a fever of 103. There is a lesson here, The way to shut this thing down is to break the chains of contact. So far, I am not impressed with the response of what is supposed to be a world-class medical system. On the other hand, I have noticed a diminuation in the number of fat l*sbians and the amount of trans fats in cookies so the CDC&P has not been totally useless. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-10-24 04:12 |