Second US Ebola case, schoolchildren may have been exposed

[DrLeftover]

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 officially diagnosed are being monitored as a precaution, Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, said in a morning interview with WFAA-TV.

"Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: The fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient," he said. "So this is real. There should be a concern, but it's contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment."

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

DALLAS (AP) -- Authorities say five students who had contact with a man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas are being monitored but are showing no symptoms of the disease.

Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said Wednesday that the students were in school this week after possibly being in contact with the man over the weekend.

But he says they're showing no symptoms and are now being monitored at home. Health officials say the disease is only spread by people with symptoms, such as diarrhea or vomiting.

As an added precaution, Miles says additional health and custodial staff will be at the five schools the students attend.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EBOLA_CHILDREN_MONITORED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-01-13-20-13

MATTHEWS: Yeah, yeah, but I'm just going back to the president's statement, doctor, and that is that the president said it would be unlikely if we had a case in this country. Unlikely to even have one case. You want to see the tape again?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/30/chris_matthews_vs_ezekiel_emanuel_on_ebola_obama_said_it_was_unlikely_it_has_happened_its_here.html

 

[DrLeftover]

Ebola-infected passenger was sent home from ER

1 Oct

DALLAS (AP) -- The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said Wednesday in a disclosure that showed how easily an infection could be missed.

The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to release the patient, who had recently arrived from Liberia, could have put others at risk of exposure to Ebola before the man went back to the ER a couple of days later, when his condition worsened.

A day after the diagnosis was confirmed, a nine-member team of federal health officials was tracking anyone who had close contact with him after he fell ill on Sept. 24. The group of 12 to 18 people included three members of the ambulance crew that took the man to the hospital and a handful of schoolchildren.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-01-13-24-13

 

[+paradox]

so, they're lying about covering it up, and how long they knew about it...

still trying to lie and cover up...

lying and trying to brainwash people into thinking it's not a big deal and no need to be worried... lie and get caught about it yet still want people's trust about the situation?

 

[Webster]

so, they're lying about covering it up, and how long they knew about it...

still trying to lie and cover up...

lying and trying to brainwash people into thinking it's not a big deal and no need to be worried... lie and get caught about it yet still want people's trust about the situation?

And panicking about its' supposed to help? Sure...
Read up on the subject a bit, Justice, then try to repeat the above with a straight face, m'kay?

...and I say that with all due respect considering the royally pathetic job the U.S. government (of which the CDC is a part of ) has done in regards to other epidemics of note over the past few decades...

 

[DrLeftover]

... ... .... ... and you expect something different?

 

[Webster]

... ... .... ... and you expect something different?

No, but sometimes it is better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

 

[Bluezone777]

... ... .... ... and you expect something different?

No, but sometimes it is better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

If you don't know the second devil then how can you call him a devil? Doesn't that imply you know the second devil to some degree? It's better to reject both and expect something better then to constantly stick to one of two things you know aren't good for you.That's how change happens as the current system of picking the lesser of two evils ends up with us having what we have now and I hardly consider that good.

As for the OP, I am hardly surprised by this as I expected Ebola would eventually make its way here. The question is not if it would arrive here but how bad will it get?

 

[Webster]

If you don't know the second devil then how can you call him a devil? Doesn't that imply you know the second devil to some degree? It's better to reject both and expect something better then to constantly stick to one of two things you know aren't good for you.That's how change happens as the current system of picking the lesser of two evils ends up with us having what we have now and I hardly consider that good.

As for the OP, I am hardly surprised by this as I expected Ebola would eventually make its way here. The question is not if it would arrive here but how bad will it get?

I believer I was being rhetorical there, Blue...what I was trying to say was that, in this case, it is better to go with what we know and deal with it accordingly than to follow Justice's line of logic and allow fear & panic to take over.

Since we know how Ebola is spread (via close contact w/bodily secretions from infected, symptomatic individuals), the key here is stopping the spread of infection and back-tracing the index case's movements to see who he came in contact with and that on that account, there is probably no agency better equipped to do that than the CDC, so on that count, I have no problem letting them take the lead.

As for how it got here...well, given the interconnectedness of modern transportation and the disease's long incubation period, it was only a matter of time and probabilities before Ebola made it to American shores; even though that's happened, I still have faith that the American health-care system - warts and all - can effectively deal with it...and that, in a nutshell, is why I said 'better to trust the devil you know than the devil you don't know".

 

[+paradox]

just like saying, "our president went rogue and is about to blow up all of our allies, but we have it under control, no need to panic."

but to my defense, i never made a claim that i was all for mass hysteria and panicking, actually, reading my post again, i was really more putting out facts about them lying and covering things up, and to not trust them, not my logic of the situation was... you just assumed that i was for a fear and panicking type situation, but i wasn't even leaning towards that or the opposite...