CDC Confirms Patient In Dallas Has The Ebola Virus

[Ptarmigan]

CDC Confirms Patient In Dallas Has The Ebola Virus
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/09/30/cdc-confirms-patient-in-dallas-has-the-ebola-virus/

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Officials with the Centers for Disease Control have confirmed that a person in Dallas definitely has the Ebola virus. Tuesday’s official determination makes the patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas the first diagnosed Ebola case in the United States.

Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas Department of State Health Services, Presbyterian Hospital and Dallas County Health and Human Services all participated in an afternoon press conference. CDC Director Thomas Frieden related the information that the individual who tested positive had traveled to Liberia. The person left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20 with no virus symptoms. Frieden said it was four or five days later that the patient, who is believed to be male, began developing symptoms and was ultimately admitted to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Sunday, September 28.

Ebola has founds it way into Dallas.

[JohnnyReb]

Evening TV news gave no name and no picture.....so, I wonder what are the odds that he is a black, Muslim courier assigned the task of bringing it here.

[Dori]

Why are they letting them come in here? The incubation period is three weeks on this virus.  How many people has he exposed in the last five days?

All they are doing right now is taking their temperature before they board the plane.

 

[Tess Anderson]

 

They won't even confirm that Patient Zero was an American citizen, or even a legal immigrant but supposedly he flew from Liberia to Brussels to the DC airport, then to Dallas. He wanted to go to Liberia for a funeral.

[BlueStateSaint]

They won't even confirm that Patient Zero was an American citizen, or even a legal immigrant but supposedly he flew from Liberia to Brussels to the DC airport, then to Dallas. He wanted to go to Liberia for a funeral.

His?  He may get his wish.

ETA:  He had contact with others . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/cdc-director-says-u-able-contain-ebola-spread-221131000.html

[vesta111]

His?  He may get his wish.

ETA:  He had contact with others . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/cdc-director-says-u-able-contain-ebola-spread-221131000.html

What did they know in the early 1700's that we do not know  now 300+ years later ????

These ancestors of ours figured out why disease was killing off whole family's in the Americas and put a stop to it as best they could.  Europe also joined in in doing so.

The rise of racism --

Martha Washington was in for a scary time in the North when she was house bound when the city she was staying in up North had an out break of some kind of contagion and people were placing their dead in the streets to be hauled away in carts.      Interesting story's on how she ever made it back South healthy.

What they did in my neck of the woods was , to place all ships coming into port under hold for a month or more perhaps 2 months at bay until all passengers were seen to be healthy.

We do have some  islands that the sick or dead were brought to, today we see people with metal detectors looking for the pits people were just thrown into by the dozens, as is, no one in their right mind back then would rob a plague victim of their belongings.  Today we just go looking for metal buttons  and bows from the dead.

Only way to stop any plague  is to stop any one from arriving from a HOT spot in the world. 

Hawaii when I went there in the early 70"s --I could not take my dog as there was a 6 month hold on dogs to insure they did not have rabies.         

Friends went to Australia, North West Cape  area 1969 or so. What my girl friend had to go through to get military permission to take kids and her self to join her husband.    Girlfriend had to see 2 doctors to prove she was not pregnant and take steps to insure she did not become so while at the duty station.   She and kids had to get the blue arm shots a month or so before hand,  then came the fun part.               

Oh this is a what amazed me, as I had not gotten to Hawaii yet to find out all our Television was one week late due to no ability to at that time to beam the on the spot news from the main land.

She would have no TV, calls from states sides were unless an emergency few and far between------Handled by HAM users about the world.   Good people, I received a few from ports I was not to know about.

OFF SUBJECT--OFF SUBJECT      I know and say I am sorry but when the question of plague comes up this is nothing one can hide or use any kind of weapon against.

I do not trust the CDC, seeing how they handled the AIDS infection, no way do I trust them hand and hand with the government to  stop any disease that is coming to our land by those that carry it.
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[dixierose]

I heard on the radio this morning that the hospital initially let him go home with antibiotics...he was in contact with people for TWO DAYS while he was sick before being taken in by ambulance. I don't know much about ebola; but I believe once the symptoms start to show is when it starts being contagious.

[thundley4]

I heard on the radio this morning that the hospital initially let him go home with antibiotics...he was in contact with people for TWO DAYS while he was sick before being taken in by ambulance. I don't know much about ebola; but I believe once the symptoms start to show is when it starts being contagious.

I heard it was 4 days that he was on the loose.  For 4 days he was possibly spreading Ebola.

ETA:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/01/texas-ebola-patient/16525649/

Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola
DALLAS — Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday.

All who have been in close contact with the man diagnosed are being monitored as a precaution, said Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.

[JohnnyReb]

You know this could get serious. Say a truck driver gets it and he makes a 2 day coast to coast run while infected but not sick enough yet to stop along the way at a hospital..... Passenger making a long distance trip on a bus....someone goes on an extended traveling vacation.

Not to worry, Obama and the CDC has your back. I am sure Obama will read about it in the paper any day now.

[BlueStateSaint]

It's starting . . . A second case?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/01/texas-ebola-patient/16525649/

[Ptarmigan]

Who Is Thomas Eric Duncan? Ebola In US Victim Identified As Liberia Citizen
http://www.ibtimes.com/who-thomas-eric-duncan-ebola-us-victim-identified-liberia-citizen-1698074

The first U.S. Ebola victim has been identified as Thomas Eric Duncan, a resident of Monrovia in his mid-40s. Many Americans became fearful Tuesday after it was revealed that someone had contracted the Ebola virus in the U.S. 

Although Duncan developed symptoms in the U.S., he apparently contracted the disease in Liberia. He reportedly had direct contact with someone who was stricken with the Ebola virus on Sept. 15, just four days before he departed Liberia to head to the United States, senior Liberian government officials said.

Duncan might have contracted Ebola while trying to save a pregnant woman’s life. Duncan helped take the woman, Marthalene Williams, 19, to the hospital by taxi in Monrovia, Liberia. She was convulsing and seven months pregnant. When they arrived, the hospital said there was not enough room for her in the Ebola treatment ward, so they were forced to return home. She died hours later, around 3 a.m. Sept. 20. Two other people who came into contact with Williams contracted Ebola and died, the Heavy added.

The patient is a Liberian named Thomas Eric Duncan.

[Dori]

It's starting . . . A second case?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/01/texas-ebola-patient/16525649/

Five children from four schools have been in contact with the first guy.

[J P Sousa]

One thing about Ebola that no one has been able to explain is, why did doctors who supposedly know how to protect themselves get Ebola ?

When HIV-AIDS was first starting to spread, we were told it could NOT be spread through the mouth or oral sex, yet WebMD says;  "The virus can enter the blood through linings in the mouth, anus, or sex organs". In fact I remember someone "in authority" saying that saliva in the mouth would KILL the virus.

I'm not one to panic about things like this BUT who is telling us the truth about diseases ???  The government CDC ???
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[thundley4]

One thing about Ebola that no one has been able to explain is, why did doctors who supposedly know how to protect themselves get Ebola ?

When HIV-AIDS was first starting to spread, we were told it could NOT be spread through the mouth or oral sex, yet WebMD says;  "The virus can enter the blood through linings in the mouth, anus, or sex organs". In fact I remember someone "in authority" saying that saliva in the mouth would KILL the virus.

I'm not one to panic about things like this BUT who is telling us the truth about diseases ???  The government CDC ???
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To make matters worse, there have been a few stories about the possibility of the virus mutating into an airborne transmittable disease. If that happens, we're screwed.

[JohnnyReb]

To make matters worse, there have been a few stories about the possibility of the virus mutating into an airborne transmittable disease. If that happens, we're screwed.

But look on the bright side.....environmentalist will get their wish.....Gaia will be rid of us.

....and Manbearpig can stop worrying about globull warming.

[Ptarmigan]

But look on the bright side.....environmentalist will get their wish.....Gaia will be rid of us.

....and Manbearpig can stop worrying about globull warming.

Perhaps it will get them too.

[BlueStateSaint]

A new one, perhaps?  In Hawaii . . .

http://khon2.com/2014/10/01/patient-in-isolation-in-honolulu-hospital-officials-say-ebola-a-possibility/

[jtyangel]

But look on the bright side.....environmentalist will get their wish.....Gaia will be rid of us.

....and Manbearpig can stop worrying about globull warming.

I guess if there is any consolation, it will take a boatload of those retards who helped make this a reality with their vote right along with it. Even if folks were to shelter in place for several weeks while the incubation period and detection burns through, DU morons can't seem to even keep rations enough to get through until their next EBT card fill to even get through the shelter in place period. They'd either dehydrate or starve before the shelter in place was lifted.

[DumbAss Tanker]

One thing about Ebola that no one has been able to explain is, why did doctors who supposedly know how to protect themselves get Ebola ?

When HIV-AIDS was first starting to spread, we were told it could NOT be spread through the mouth or oral sex, yet WebMD says;  "The virus can enter the blood through linings in the mouth, anus, or sex organs". In fact I remember someone "in authority" saying that saliva in the mouth would KILL the virus.

I'm not one to panic about things like this BUT who is telling us the truth about diseases ???  The government CDC ???
.

Last night I heard one of the experts say that a sneeze couldn't spread it.  Frankly I think he's nuts, a sneeze is chock full of aerosolized body fluids, and getting droplet of that blasted into your face ought to do it pretty damn' well.  Possibly he was talking about early or middle incubation period, but he didn't qualify his comment in any way.

If it spread very easily, Africa would have a hundred million dead right now, so yeah, I get that it's nowhere near as contagious as the flu.  All the worries about it suddenly mutating into something that will spread like wildfire are also pretty much fear-mongering, the virus has been quite stable as long as it's been known, it's not like the flu virus and there is no particular reason to think it's going to suddenly jump the genetic tracks, unless maybe the virus gets into the bloodstream of a radioactive spider. 

However, I also don't have unbounded confidence that the 'Experts' have an absolute 100% lock on every last detail of its mechanism of contagion, it is after all a very rare tropical disease that was unknown to Western medical science until quite recent years.

[thundley4]

All the worries about it suddenly mutating into something that will spread like wildfire are also pretty much fear-mongering, the virus has been quite stable as long as it's been known, it's not like the flu virus and there is no particular reason to think it's going to suddenly jump the genetic tracks, unless maybe the virus gets into the bloodstream of a radioactive spider. 

OTOH, exposing the virus to the various treatments being tried here and in Africa, could speed the mutation process. It may not happen quickly, but it could happen. Look at how many diseases are mutating and becoming resistant to penicillin. I realize penicillin is antibacterial and not antiviral, but flu viruses also mutate to become resistant to current vaccines at times.

[Wineslob]

Reminds me of this:







http://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc

[J P Sousa]

  ‘CDC Is Lying’: The Bold Way One Doctor Protested the Government’s Stance on Ebola 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/02/cdc-is-lying-the-bold-way-one-doctor-protested-the-governments-stance-on-ebola/

 
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[Tess Anderson]

Now they're saying this Ebola guy threw up outside of his apartment earlier this week. There are over 100 people that he came into contact with that they're trying to find.

The Liberian government is thinking of pressing charges against him, since, like Patrick in Ethopia this summer, he lied and misled to board an airplane.

This "you're not contagious until you feel sick" thing the CDC is claiming doesn't make any sense to me - there's no other disease that kicks in and automaticaly becomes contagious at that point.

[JohnnyReb]

Interesting article and the sloppy way they're cleaning up behind the carrier.

Oh and it took a judges court order to make his family stay put and not expose others.

http://michellemalkin.com/?p=160032

[obumazombie]

Another good reason for securing our borders.
Even the low information voters could be persuaded of this.