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2014-08-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2014-08-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 New WHO stats out

New cases:

163 31 July to August 3
122 July 24 - 27
108 July 21 - 23
85 July 18 - 20
67 July 15 - 17
18 July 13 - 14

5 new cases in Nigeria (1 new, 3 probable, 1 dead) of whom 1 was the doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer and another was a nurse.

One man is being treated in NEW YORK CITY who recently traveled to an ebola zone in West Africa. Why wasn't he quarantined on his return??????

He may have passed to 5 people by now

Posted by anon1 2014-08-05 07:45|| 2014-08-05 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 new WHO stats here

US man being treated here

Posted by anon1 2014-08-05 07:46|| 2014-08-05 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Saudi is now testing its first suspected case here

CBS reports here it is likely to be worse than the WHO figures suggest due to hidden victims.

Posted by anon1 2014-08-05 09:20|| 2014-08-05 09:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Patient self-quarantined in Morristown, TN -- about 50 miles NE of Knoxville.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-05 10:50|| 2014-08-05 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Update Morristown.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-05 10:55|| 2014-08-05 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Call me paranoid, but between the NYC hospitals disconnects about the number of patients ( is it only 1, or is it more?)and the various incoming folks from the African continent, I think the Ebola virus is already here and is also unchecked.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-08-05 15:49|| 2014-08-05 15:49|| Front Page Top

#7 If Ebola infections are here in the USA and unchecked, they will come to public attention rather quickly -- the violent symptoms, bleeding and death rate will draw most everyone's attention.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-05 18:06|| 2014-08-05 18:06|| Front Page Top

#8 "why wasn't he quarantined on his return" -- how many thousands of people a day come to the US from the Ebola hot zone, or who have been there in the last 2 weeks? Have seen nothing in the news about the numbers.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-05 18:07|| 2014-08-05 18:07|| Front Page Top

#9 From today's NYTimes: Following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every patient entering one of the city’s hospitals who has fever, headache and other symptoms associated with Ebola (as well as countless other ailments), is asked two new questions.

“Have you traveled to or from West African countries in the last 10 days? Have you been in contact with an Ebola patient or with anyone who has been in contact with an Ebola patient?”

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-05 18:17|| 2014-08-05 18:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Good question, anguper

How many thousands come each day

They need to be taken aside and quarantined at port of entry

Not questioned when and if they go to the dr weeks later

Bit of inconvenience but that is ok sometimes

Posted by Anon1 2014-08-05 18:46|| 2014-08-05 18:46|| Front Page Top

#11 How is someone to know if they have been around someone who has it. Do they ask?

"Would you like fries with that? And do you have Ebola? Been to Africa?"

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-08-05 20:45|| 2014-08-05 20:45|| Front Page Top

#12 The conventional wisdom about Ebola is that you either come down with symptoms 2 weeks or less after being infected, or you are not infected. I sure hope that wisdom proves true.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-05 23:20|| 2014-08-05 23:20|| Front Page Top

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