Ebola on US shores

[TexasDevilDog]

“At one point he was trying to help decontaminate a car. He had most of the protective gear on, but he thinks something might have splashed on his body at that point. That’s one possibility, but really, one doesn’t know fully,” Diana said.

Most of the protective gear isn't all of the protective gear, which mean wearing a little mask is not going to help.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/03/nbc-news-cameraman-from-providence-diagnosed-with-ebola/

[GhostTX]

It's like..."they're" trying to create a crisis. Be it incompetence or just some insidious behavior.

[Baron Von Crowder]

http://www.infowars.com/paramedic-in...ce-for-2-days/

Paramedics who attended to the Ebola diagnosed patient in Dallas were not contacted by hospital officials, local or state health officials, or the CDC to inform them that they were driving around in an ambulance that could be contaminated with the infectious virus.

According to a report by Breitbart News, one of the paramedics himself says that it was not until 48 hours after he had transported Thomas Duncan to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital that he was informed that he could be driving around in an Ebola contaminated death trap.

“[It was] 48 hours later before they finally took the ambulance out of service,” said Dallas Paramedic Geoffrey Aklinski in a discussion on Facebook, referring to the September 28th incident when Duncan was picked up, violently vomiting, at his apartment.

“None of them have been contacted. None of the paramedics that were on that shift and went in the ambulance were contacted. I’ve been off three days now. No one contacted me and I was in and drove that ambulance after it was infected.” Aklinski adds.

The Dallas Fire Department finally put the ambulance into quarantine on Wednesday, a full day after the diagnosis was made public. It is not known how many paramedics drove the ambulance during the 48 hour period or how many patients were transported.

“This is definitely a concern and exposed workers have not been contacted or tested… like me,” Aklinski notes. “I had to call into control in Dallas at 8 pm and complain to get evaluated.”

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Aklinski also claims that he has attempted to contact mainstream media outlets to get the story out, but has been rebuffed at every turn. “They just go with the official reports,” Aklinski, who is due to undergo a 3 week home quarantine, stated.

The revelations, if accurate, are the latest to add to a long list of clumsy reactions to the arrival of the virus in the US. On Wednesday, it was revealed that Duncan was sent home for 2 days with antibiotics by officials at the hospital because they did not test him for Ebola, despite the fact he told them he had traveled from Liberia.



Yesterday, images of unprotected workers cleaning up Duncan’s Ebola contaminated vomit emerged. The men in the images are not wearing masks, gowns, gloves or hazmat suits, and are simply washing away the vomit with water hoses. In addition, Duncan’s apartment, in which family members have been quarantined, was not decontaminated until yesterday evening.
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A Dallas hospital patient has tested positive for Ebola, the first case ever diagnosed in the United States.

A statement sent out Monday night by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said that the patient was being isolated based on his or her symptoms and recent travel history.



THE PATIENT

A press conference with details about the diagnosis was held in Dallas Tuesday afternoon.

There, Tom Frieden, M.D., Director of the Center for Disease Control, said that the patient did not show any symptoms when leaving from Liberia on Sept. 19 or entering the U.S. Sept. 20.

The patient, an unidentified man, sought treatment Sept. 26 and was admitted to a hospital Sept. 28.

During his first visit to the hospital, he complained of illness but was released before returning Sept. 28 as his condition worsened. A hospital official said it wasn't until then that they discovered he was in West Africa.



Dallas Fire-Rescue Assistant Chief Norman Seals said Tuesday night that the Ebola patient was transported to the hospital by three crew members from Fire Station 37, who are now in reverse isolation at home. That means they've been asked to stay home from work for 21 days, will be checked on daily and will have their temperatures monitored.

The ambulance that the Ebola patient traveled in is being quarantined. It was used 48 hours after the patient was transported to the hospital.

Dallas Fire-Rescue is waiting on experts to guide it on how to properly sanitize and decontaminate the ambulance.

There was no risk to anyone on the airplane because the man had no symptoms at the time of the flight, Frieden said.

CDC officials and doctors at the press conference emphasized that they believe the patient's diagnosis will be controlled, and that the risk for an outbreak in Dallas is low.

"The bottom line here is that I have no doubt we will control this importation, or this case of Ebola, so that it does not spread widely in this country," Frieden said.

Both the hospital and health officials said strict federal isolation and testing guidelines are being followed.

"Unless you have exchanged bodily fluids with this individual this is a low risk for people in Dallas County. So we want to ease the fear. We're talking about bodily fluids transmission, not just sitting right here together that being an issue," said Dallas County Health Director Zach Thompson.

NEXT STEPS

The CDC has sent a team to Dallas from its Atlanta headquarters Part of the team landed Tuesday night in North Texas.

That team, of mostly epidemiologists, will help local and state health departments with tracing the disease to anyone who may have had contact with the patient, and the team will handle other parts of the investigation.

However, officials said Tuesday there are no other suspected cases in Texas.

"It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual, a family member or other individual, could develop Ebola in the coming weeks," said Frieden. "But there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.

The City of Dallas has also opened its Emergency Operations Center in response to the Ebola diagnosis.

It's at level 2; high readiness status.

The office will help coordinate operations between the city, county, state and the CDC.

Gov. Perry will be in Dallas Wednesday as well to discuss the state's response.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings says he has full faith in the staff at Presbyterian Hospital to handle the Ebola diagnosis.

He says the state of Texas was tested in August as to how it would treat Ebola patients, and the plan enacted by Dallas County then is now in place.

“We have mobilized our resources to make sure everybody is safe,” said Rawlings. “I understand people's fears, but I think it's very, very hard to transmit if the proper procedures are in place.”

Four American aid workers who became infected in West Africa have been flown back to the U.S. for treatment after they became sick. They were cared for in special isolation facilities at hospitals in Atlanta and Nebraska. Three have recovered.

Also, a U.S. doctor exposed to the virus in Sierra Leone is under observation in a similar facility at the National Institutes of Health.

The U.S. has only four such isolation units. Asked whether the Texas patient would be moved to one of those specialty facilities, Frieden said there was no need and virtually any hospital can provide the proper care and infection control.

Thompson said that unlike Africa, Dallas County has the infrastructure needed to deal with Ebola.

Since the summer months, U.S. health officials have been preparing for the possibility that an individual traveler could unknowingly arrive with the infection. Health authorities have advised hospitals on how to prevent the virus from spreading within their facilities.

People boarding planes in the outbreak zone are checked for fever, but that does not guarantee that an infected person won't get through.

The CDC has said that 12 other people in the U.S. have been tested for Ebola since July 27. Those tests came back negative.

The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 3,000 people.


http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/266590...sted-for-ebola

can we just get the truth rather than hype?

[Baron Von Crowder]

Most of the protective gear isn't all of the protective gear, which mean wearing a little mask is not going to help.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/10/0...ed-with-ebola/

[Craizie]

Nothing wrong with stinky pussy, as long its your stinky pussy, lol...

I gagged a little.

[TexasDevilDog]

Now they have an armed guard to prevent them from leaving their apartment.

If they tried to leave, I wouldn't blame a cop for not wanting to wrestle with them to arrest them and just shoot them.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Now they have an armed guard to prevent them from leaving their apartment.

If they tried to leave, I wouldn't blame a cop for not wanting to wrestle with them to arrest them and just shoot them.

[mstng86]

We didn't land on the ebola virus, the ebola virus landed on us!

[talisman]

Lmfao Dj.

[Gear_Jammer]

In the last 72 hours, the 9th reported case of West Nile in Dallas was about 1/4 mile from my house, we almost got blown away (literally) by yesterday's storm and ground zero for the US ebola craze was less than a mile from my office and less than 3 miles from my house. It'll be a miracle if I don't die sometime soon...

[Craizie]

In the last 72 hours, the 9th reported case of West Nile in Dallas was about 1/4 mile from my house, we almost got blown away (literally) by yesterday's storm and ground zero for the US ebola craze was less than a mile from my office and less than 3 miles from my house. It'll be a miracle if I don't die sometime soon...

West Nile is for bitches. So, unless you're a bitch you'll be fine.

[helosailor]

CDC has developed a test that has shown to be 100% accurate...

http://doihaveebola.org/

Well, dammit. See you all in 21 days.

[GhostTX]

With all the gross mishandling and incompetence, I will consider us VERY lucky if we only have the one ebola patient.

Currently, 50 people are now under observation.

[idrivea4banger]

This thread is worse than ebola itself.

[LANTIRN]

CDC has developed a test that has shown to be 100% accurate...

http://doihaveebola.org/

You're welcome.

Thanks!

Now someone kick talisman in the nuts for starting another one.