Ebola now in US

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I just read on CBC that while he was in Liberia, he helped transport (physically carried) a pregnant woman suffering from Ebola to the hospital. She was turned away from the hospital and he then helped carry her back home.

Sounds to me like a little more should have been disclosed than "I travelled to Liberia". More like, "hi. I have a fever and flu like symptoms and I recently CARRIED SOMEONE AROUND who was actively suffering from Ebola.". Holy #####. Are people seriously this clueless?

This is on the admitting staff for not asking the correct question.............

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Sooooooooooooooo.....


Heard on the radio this morning a Dallas hospital sent home a guy who was infected with Ebola. Gave him a bottle of antibiotics and sent him on his way. He was displaying symptoms and even said he had recently been to west Africa.

Awesome.

Just to be clear, the guy that was sent home with antibiotics is the guy that they have now. It's not the first case of ebola + another guy they sent home with antibiotics.

So they should have caught it 2 days earlier, and it would have been likely that less people would have been exposed to him.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-p...eria-1.2783698

[GoinAllTheWay]

nm

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

This is on the admitting staff for not asking the correct question.............

Well... I mean... maybe. The older I get though, the more I realize nobody cares about your personal health except you. You have to advocate for yourself and educate yourself to the best of your ability. So, yeah. I'm just saying if it was me, I don't think I would have accepted just taking some anti-biotics and going home. That guy knew he was in direct physical contact with at least one person suffering from Ebola. Don't take that risk and expose your whole family and other people.

Anyways, I was recently at the Children's hospital (nothing serious, just a minor kid injury), and I noticed on all the triage stations they had signs up reminding the nurses to ask anyone showing fever/flu symptoms if they had recently travelled to West Africa. So hopefully something similar wouldn't happen here but I guess anything is possible.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Well... I mean... maybe. The older I get though, the more I realize nobody cares about your personal health except you. You have to advocate for yourself and educate yourself to the best of your ability. So, yeah. I'm just saying if it was me, I don't think I would have accepted just taking some anti-biotics and going home. That guy knew he was in direct physical contact with at least one person suffering from Ebola. Don't take that risk and expose your whole family and other people.

Anyways, I was recently at the Children's hospital (nothing serious, just a minor kid injury), and I noticed on all the triage stations they had signs up reminding the nurses to ask anyone showing fever/flu symptoms if they had recently travelled to West Africa. So hopefully something similar wouldn't happen here but I guess anything is possible.

I was being facetious.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

Just to be clear, the guy that was sent home with antibiotics is the guy that they have now. It's not the first case of ebola + another guy they sent home with antibiotics.

So they should have caught it 2 days earlier, and it would have been likely that less people would have been exposed to him.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-p...eria-1.2783698

Oh...Ok. Man, they sure made it sound like a new case.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I was being facetious.

I thought so. But still.

And I should revise my comment to say if it was me, I woulnd't have even gone to Liberia in the first place. I know the CDC and all the experts are emphatic that the risks are "SO LOW" to us, but I find it more than a bit unsettling, personally.

It's because I watched that Contagion movie a few years ago, I think. That freaked me right out. Damn Hollywood.

[KelVarnsen]

So we are



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[FlameOn]

CTV is reporting that up to a hundred people were exposed to the Dallas flight US patient on his way back home. Scary stuff.

[Locke]

Never fear, Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding Jr. will save us!

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

CTV is reporting that up to a hundred people were exposed to the Dallas flight US patient on his way back home. Scary stuff.

Not really scary. Not airborne, so unless he was quite ill and threw up everywhere, I think all 100 people are just fine

[Canuck-Hater]

I don't usually agree with Fox but I mean How long did you have to shutdown the borders? Several months?? The US government needs to be more proactive.

[Hockeyguy15]

Sounds like he might be in trouble when he returns home.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/News/wo...179/story.html

The Liberian man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States will be prosecuted when he returns home for lying on his airport screening questionnaire, Liberian authorities said Thursday.

With an Ebola epidemic raging in West Africa, passengers leaving Liberia are being screened for fever and are asked if they have had contact with anyone infected.

On the form obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by a government official, Thomas Eric Duncan answered “no” to questions about whether he had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of someone who had died in an area affected by Ebola.

Although it does say they don't know if he was aware the lady had ebola, and that they believed at the time her symptoms were related to her pregnancy.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

I don't usually agree with Fox but I mean How long did you have to shutdown the borders? Several months?? The US government needs to be more proactive.

Are you being serious?

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

I don't usually agree with Fox but I mean How long did you have to shutdown the borders? Several months?? The US government needs to be more proactive.

Shut down the borders.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Not really scary. Not airborne, so unless he was quite ill and threw up everywhere, I think all 100 people are just fine

From my understanding too, carriers exhibit symptoms if they are capable of passing the virus along. The investigation is much simpler in this sense though I would bet the CDC takes no chances here.

[FlameOn]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Not really scary. Not airborne, so unless he was quite ill and threw up everywhere, I think all 100 people are just fine

CDC official: Of the one hundred people we know about, we do know some have come into contact with his bodily fluids

They are being assessed into three categories: High risk, low risk or no risk

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

CDC official: Of the one hundred people we know about, we do know some have come into contact with his bodily fluids

They are being assessed into three categories: High risk, low risk or no risk

Didn't realize they mentioned the fluids. How is that even possible?

[FlameOn]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Didn't realize they mentioned the fluids. How is that even possible?

Not sure at all... I was watching the press conference at work and it came up on the subtitles since the sound was turned way down. Maybe he coughed and spit on something on the plane? They didn't elaborate.

[Lil Pedro]

Moral of the story: stay the hell out of west africa