Ebola on US shores

[helosailor]

Seems that we have quite a few battologists around here.

[talisman]

Aww hell:

http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/heres-what-happens-if-youre-on-a-plane-and-they-think-y-1644494804

[GhostTX]

Good deal on the deputy. I'll feel better after the end of next week, when we're through the full incubation period.

[ceyko]

I think it is wise to be cautiously optimistic throughout the process, but have a plan.

What would suck is to take it home to family...etc...etc.

[MadMax404M]

News will get at least a solid 2 more weeks out of this. We've still got the quarantine and the Spanish nurse.

There's a news van still in front of the Carenow as I just drove by it even though there's no "story" now.

I was looking forward to b**ching about da 'bola on here. Onto something else to complain about...

[jewozzy]

I got fucked on my short position today because i got out too early!

I hope the deputy is playing this up and that whoever ordered him into the apartment loses their job.

You'd have to get everyone to vote her out then. He was called directly from the sheriff per our meeting the other day.

[KBScobravert]

I think it is wise to be cautiously optimistic throughout the process, but have a plan.

What would suck is to take it home to family...etc...etc.

We talked about that right there last night. I told my wife that she could stay at any hotel she wanted to but she ain't coming home for 3-4 weeks if someone comes into her place feeling all Ebola shit.

[Gasser64]

Good deal on the deputy. I'll feel better after the end of next week, when we're through the full incubation period.

Im not reading this whole tread;

But now they are looking for some homeless guy who got away. Dont know if anybody brought that up or if they found him

So the incubation period goes on unfortunately

[jewozzy]

Im not reading this whole tread;

But now they are looking for some homeless guy who got away. Dont know if anybody brought that up or if they found him

So the incubation period goes on unfortunately

They found him like 4 days ago.

[Broncojohnny]

Glad it turned out he didn't have it.

I honestly think what we have to worry about is it coming from some other country full of dumbfucks who don't have the sense to take precautions. Europe comes to mind.

[SMKR]

this seems like a bigger concern

http://www.cdc.gov/non-polio-enterovirus/about/ev-d68.html

[slow99]

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[Back N Black]

Well it continues...

DALLAS (AP) - A health care worker who provided hospital care for an Ebola patient in Dallas who later died has tested positive for the virus, health officials said Sunday in a statement. If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.

A statement posted on the Texas Department of State Health Service's website said "confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta."

Officials said the health care worker reported a low grade fever Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing. Preliminary test results were received late Saturday.

Hospital and state health officials did not identify the health care worker or provide their job description.

"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services. "We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread."

Health officials have interviewed the patient and are identifying any contacts or potential exposures. They said people who had contact with the health care worker after symptoms emerged will be monitored based on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus.

Ebola spreads through close contact with a symptomatic person's bodily fluids, such as blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen. Those fluids must have an entry point, like a cut or scrape or someone touching the nose, mouth or eyes with contaminated hands, or being splashed. The World Health Organization says blood, feces and vomit are the most infectious fluids, while the virus is found in saliva mostly once patients are severely ill and the whole live virus has never been culled from sweat.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died Wednesday in Dallas. Duncan, 42, grew up next to a leper colony in Liberia and fled years of war before later returning to his country to find it ravaged by the disease that ultimately took his life.

Duncan arrived in Dallas in late September, realizing a long-held ambition to join relatives. He came to attend the high-school graduation of his son, who was born in a refugee camp in Ivory Coast and was brought to the U.S. as a toddler when the boy's mother successfully applied for resettlement.

The trip was the culmination of decades of effort, friends and family members said. But when Duncan arrived in Dallas, though he showed no symptoms, he had already been exposed to Ebola. His neighbors in Liberia believe Duncan become infected when he helped a pregnant neighbor who later died from it. It was unclear if he knew about her diagnosis before traveling.

Duncan had arrived at a friend's Dallas apartment on Sept. 20 - less than a week after helping his sick neighbor. For the nine days before he was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, Duncan shared the apartment with several people.

[03mustangdude]

All over CNN I think they are smiling when they talk about a new case

[Chopped54]

This shit is airborne