Worker in Dallas tests positive for Ebola

[DrLeftover]

12 Oct

Preliminary testing has confirmed that a health care worker who came in contact with the first person to die of Ebola in the United States has become infected with the virus, the Texas Department of State Health Services has said.

Further testing to confirm the disease will be conducted at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, according to a written statement from the state.

No details about the infected worker have been released, including how or when the person came in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. Duncan died Wednesday in Dallas.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has announced that there will be a news conference at 7:30 a.m. Sunday to discuss the results of testing at the state laboratory in Austin that has confirmed that the worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has been infected.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20141012-health-care-worker-at-dallas-presbyterian-hospital-tests-positive-for-ebola.ece

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

What I am worried about is all the people this bastard came into contact with during his travels here that he may have infected. This is what people should be really worried about and cross those fingers it did not happen. If it did that disease is going to cause havoc.

 

[Webster]

What I am worried about is all the people this bastard came into contact with during his travels here that he may have infected. This is what people should be really worried about and cross those fingers it did not happen. If it did that disease is going to cause havoc.

Then its' going to come down to - on our end - medical isolation/quarantine of infected or potentially infected persons, along with basic shoe-leather epidemiology (i.e. back-tracing of contacts from Mr. Duncan and so forth). On the West African end, its' basically going to be a case of letting the outbreak burn itself out over time; unfortunately, since it took months for the world to even know that an Ebola outbreak had taken root in West Africa. The first case, by most accounts, was right at the end of 2013...however, the first anyone in the West knew about it was in late March/early April, when health authorities started raising the alarm bells...and by that time, it'd already turned into a full-blown outbreak.

Best guess...it took months for it to become an outbreak, so it'll probably take months, if not a year or thereabouts, for this outbreak to burn itself out.

 

[Dee]

Why call him a bastard? Was he deliberately making people sick knowing he was walking around with the ebola virus? *shrug* Seems pretty rude to say that of a man who's died, even after asking for help from a hospital that idiotically misdiagnosed him (on top of him saying he had traveled from West Africa). I do hope this worker is able to beat it though, unlike the gentleman who passed.

 

[Webster]

Why call him a bastard? Was he deliberately making people sick knowing he was walking around with the ebola virus? *shrug* Seems pretty rude to say that of a man who's died, even after asking for help from a hospital that idiotically misdiagnosed him (on top of him saying he had traveled from West Africa). I do hope this worker is able to beat it though, unlike the gentleman who passed.

I agree, especially since Mr. Duncan's passed...the question at hand, though, is how did this worker contract Ebola while caring for Mr. Duncan.

 

[Dee]

Why call him a bastard? Was he deliberately making people sick knowing he was walking around with the ebola virus? *shrug* Seems pretty rude to say that of a man who's died, even after asking for help from a hospital that idiotically misdiagnosed him (on top of him saying he had traveled from West Africa). I do hope this worker is able to beat it though, unlike the gentleman who passed.

I agree, especially since Mr. Duncan's passed...the question at hand, though, is how did this worker contract Ebola while caring for Mr. Duncan.

I was watching a show recently talking about how there is still so much doctor's don't know about how the disease is contracted. Plenty of people wearing extremely protective gear from head to toe have managed to get it despite taking every precaution they know of, which is rather scary if you ask me.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Why call him a bastard? Was he deliberately making people sick knowing he was walking around with the ebola virus? *shrug* Seems pretty rude to say that of a man who's died, even after asking for help from a hospital that idiotically misdiagnosed him (on top of him saying he had traveled from West Africa). I do hope this worker is able to beat it though, unlike the gentleman who passed.

He came her full well knowing he had the disease. He is a bastard for risking so many lives to save his own.

 

[Dee]

Why call him a bastard? Was he deliberately making people sick knowing he was walking around with the ebola virus? *shrug* Seems pretty rude to say that of a man who's died, even after asking for help from a hospital that idiotically misdiagnosed him (on top of him saying he had traveled from West Africa). I do hope this worker is able to beat it though, unlike the gentleman who passed.

He came her full well knowing he had the disease. He is a bastard for risking so many lives to save his own.

Firstly, he was not showing symptoms when he got on the plane. It wasn't until after he landed that he went to a hospital in Texas with symptoms of something that the hospital dismissed as not Ebola despite being told Thomas Duncan had traveled to west Africa.

Secondly, have you even been following the timeline of news? They sent him home after his first visit with the thought that it wasn't Ebola until he came back not too long after in an ambulance. That is when they tested him for it, well after he had landed. And to be quite honest, a fever and abdominal pain could be loads of stuff. It's not generally indicative of Ebola, so mistakes were made. And if Thomas Duncan is a Bastard, the hospital who let him go without testing him for anything is even more of a Bastard as they let a man with Ebola walk out their doors.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Why call him a bastard? Was he deliberately making people sick knowing he was walking around with the ebola virus? *shrug* Seems pretty rude to say that of a man who's died, even after asking for help from a hospital that idiotically misdiagnosed him (on top of him saying he had traveled from West Africa). I do hope this worker is able to beat it though, unlike the gentleman who passed.

He came her full well knowing he had the disease. He is a bastard for risking so many lives to save his own.

Firstly, he was not showing symptoms when he got on the plane. It wasn't until after he landed that he went to a hospital in Texas with symptoms of something that the hospital dismissed as not Ebola despite being told Thomas Duncan had traveled to west Africa.

Secondly, have you even been following the timeline of news? They sent him home after his first visit with the thought that it wasn't Ebola until he came back not too long after in an ambulance. That is when they tested him for it, well after he had landed. And to be quite honest, a fever and abdominal pain could be loads of stuff. It's not generally indicative of Ebola, so mistakes were made. And if Thomas Duncan is a Bastard, the hospital who let him go without testing him for anything is even more of a Bastard as they let a man with Ebola walk out their doors.

That's what we have been told he was not showing signs. I don't buy it. But so what He still had handled people with Ebola. And yet still got on a plane coming here anyways. Yes I called him a bastard and I am doubling down on it.


As for the rest that's a whole other story and has nothing to do with calling the man a bastard.

 

[+paradox]

Why call him a bastard? Was he deliberately making people sick knowing he was walking around with the ebola virus? *shrug* Seems pretty rude to say that of a man who's died, even after asking for help from a hospital that idiotically misdiagnosed him (on top of him saying he had traveled from West Africa). I do hope this worker is able to beat it though, unlike the gentleman who passed.

He came her full well knowing he had the disease. He is a bastard for risking so many lives to save his own.

Firstly, he was not showing symptoms when he got on the plane. It wasn't until after he landed that he went to a hospital in Texas with symptoms of something that the hospital dismissed as not Ebola despite being told Thomas Duncan had traveled to west Africa.

Secondly, have you even been following the timeline of news? They sent him home after his first visit with the thought that it wasn't Ebola until he came back not too long after in an ambulance. That is when they tested him for it, well after he had landed. And to be quite honest, a fever and abdominal pain could be loads of stuff. It's not generally indicative of Ebola, so mistakes were made. And if Thomas Duncan is a Bastard, the hospital who let him go without testing him for anything is even more of a Bastard as they let a man with Ebola walk out their doors.

That's what we have been told he was not showing signs. I don't buy it. But so what He still had handled people with Ebola. And yet still got on a plane coming here anyways. Yes I called him a bastard and I am doubling down on it.


As for the rest that's a whole other story and has nothing to do with calling the man a bastard.

someone that hates conspiracies, doing a great job at making up your own?