CDC Hiding Numbers of Possible Ebola Cases in US

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Media Buzz,” investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson said the CDC is not putting out the current information on how many potential cases of Ebola they are currently tracking in the Untied States.

Attkisson said, “I called CDC not long ago and I said how many cases are being monitored in the United States and they said 1,400. I said, ‘Where are these updates on your website? ‘ They said they’re not putting it on the web. This is public information we have a right to know and the media should not hype it, but should cover it.”

And on a side note it is great to see a very good journalist like Sharyl Attkisson on FOX.

 

[Nebulous]

Wow, its gotten that high already?

Yeah, we should know about it!

 

[Webster]

*reads opening post* 1400 cases...yeah, 1400 if you count....
-the 10 confirmed U.S. Ebola cases thus far
-all the contacts from those ten that have been watched and released following the 21-day quarantine period
-any and all potential cases (such as the nurse from Maine who later turned out to have not been infected)

Throw those factors in and odds are you might very well have 1400 cases, Theeze...otherwise, someone needs to give Sheryl Atkisson - who, by the way, I do respect for her work on Benghazi, a Yellow Journalism Award for fear-mongering....

....there's your sign, Sheryl!

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

*reads opening post* 1400 cases...yeah, 1400 if you count....
-the 10 confirmed U.S. Ebola cases thus far
-all the contacts from those ten that have been watched and released following the 21-day quarantine period
-any and all potential cases (such as the nurse from Maine who later turned out to have not been infected)

Throw those factors in and odds are you might very well have 1400 cases, Theeze...otherwise, someone needs to give Sheryl Atkisson - who, by the way, I do respect for her work on Benghazi, a Yellow Journalism Award for fear-mongering....

....there's your sign, Sheryl!

She did say 1400 cases they are monitoring not confirmed cases of ebola. To me thats pretty scary for the limited amount of people flying in from that region.

 

[DrLeftover]

Exactly right.

Remember what Mr. Obama said, "unlikely ebola will reach US."

Right? Of course right.

... ... ... oh, damn.

Man exhibiting Ebola-like symptoms rushed to Bellevue

December 23, 2014

A man suffering from Ebola-like symptoms was rushed from an Upper West Side apartment building to Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday, authorities said.

The patient recently returned from Liberia and started suffering symptoms such as high fever Saturday night, sources said.

Hazmat, police officers, EMS and fire officials helped transport the man from the building at 201 W. 70th St. near Amsterdam Avenue just before noon, FDNY said.

“We are taking precautions,” said fire officials.

The person is currently being evaluated.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/23/man-exhibiting-ebola-like-symptoms-rushed-to-bellevue/

 

[DrLeftover]

And then:

C.D.C. Ebola Error in Lab May Have Exposed Technician to Virus

24 Dec

A laboratory mistake at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, federal officials said on Wednesday. The technician will be monitored for signs of infection for 21 days, the incubation period of the disease. A small number of other employees, fewer than a dozen, who entered a lab where the mistake occurred will also be assessed for exposure.

The error occurred on Monday when a high-security lab at the C.D.C. in Atlanta, working with Ebola virus from the epidemic in West Africa, sent samples that should have been inactivated to another C.D.C. laboratory, which was down the hall. But the lab sent out the wrong samples, ones that had not been inactivated and that may have contained the live virus. The second lab was not equipped to handle the live virus. The technician who worked with the samples wore gloves and a gown, but no mask, and may have been exposed.

The error was discovered on Tuesday.

The accident is especially troubling because dangerous samples of anthrax and flu were mishandled at the C.D.C. in June, eroding confidence in an agency that has long been one of the most respected scientific research centers in the world. The C.D.C. promised last summer to improve its safety procedures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/health/cdc-ebola-error-in-lab-may-have-exposed-technician-to-virus.html?_r=0