Ebola in Dallas

Yikes. No need to panic. Everybody stay calm

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas officials said in a statement Monday that an unnamed patient was being tested for Ebola and had been placed in "strict isolation" due to the patient's symptoms and recent travel history.

Presbyterian Hospital says it's taking measures to keep its doctors, staff and patients safe.

Patient just returned from Liberia where he had close contact with an Ebola patient. We can't fly to Cuba but we can fly to Liberia. And fly back.

Imagine all the people this person came in contact with in the week it took to diagnose the disease, who conveniently didn't tell the doctors that he/she was in Liberia.

In the interest of public safety DonDiego suggests the patient be moved to a hospital closer to AT&T Stadium.

plus you are contagious for 21 days, you encounter a lot of people in 21 days sometimes before any symptoms appear. They are also thinking it is mutating into airborne virus. Plus they found out pets( dogs) can be infected have no signs and infect their human counterparts.

And, if I'm not mistaken (unlikely), the vaccine or drug they developed and which cured some, if "out". The CDC used the last available units recently. Don't know how long until they can manufacture more.

Damn suicide terrorists don't need to blow things up anymore, just get infected and travel til they die.

I think Philly would be a better place for them. LOL

One is not contagious until symptoms arrive.

I'm thinking Detroit....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has helped lead the international response to Ebola, advises that all medical facilities should ask patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola for their travel history.

Duncan's travel history "was not acted upon in an appropriate way," said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

"A nurse did ask the question and he did respond that he was in Liberia and that wasn't transmitted to people who were in charge of his care," Gupta said. "There's no excuse for this."

A U.S. official told CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen that the situation was clearly "a screw-up." A patient who shows up to a hospital with a fever and a history of travel to Liberia should be treated as an infection risk, the official said.

Patient Zero, Thomas Eric Duncan, is a Citizen of Liberia. [DonDiego supposed this was the case when the CDC spokesperson refused to disclose the nationality of the patient in the earlier news conference.]

He flew to the USA from Monrovia to Brussels to Dulles to Dallas.

"He caught it, according to the New York Times, helping carry a heavily pregnant neighbor back from the hospital where she was turned away from the overflowing Ebola ward. The 19-year-old girl died that night, early on Sept. 16. Her 21-year-old brother, who also helped carry her, died a week later in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. Duncan, by contrast, has a whole ward to himself in Dallas and a team of top doctors.
Duncan flew to the U.S. on Sept. 19 and exhibited the first symptoms of Ebola four or five days later. For weeks his sister, Mai Wureh, a nurse from Charlotte, N.C., and his mother, who was in Texas when family members spoke to her three weeks ago, had been desperately trying to get Duncan out of Liberia and over to the U.S., fearing for his life."
Ref: Time.com

So he flew to the US "fearing for his life." DonDiego wouldn't be surprised if he flew to the United States knowing he'd receive treatment for ebola, . . . which he now is.

Hmm, . . . DonDiego wonders if anyone else who fears he may have been exposed to the virus may enter the US similarly. Nah ! It's just a fluke. Couldn't happen again, . . . in a million years.

* * * EDITED TO ADD * * *

The Administration in Washington has foreseen DonDiego's concern.

"White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters today that, after the Ebola case in Dallas, the Obama administration reminded border law enforcment agencies of 'protocol' to deal with people that appear to have symptoms of Ebola. Earnest also said that there 'are screening procedures in place at our border.'
'In light of this incident,' Earnest said at his daily briefing, 'the administration has taken the step of recirculating our guidance to law enforcement agencies that are responsible for securing the border, to those agencies that represent individuals who staff the airline industry, and to medical professionals all across the country to make sure that people are aware that there is an important protocol that should be implemented if an individual presents with symptoms that are consistent with Ebola.' "
Ref: The Weekly Standard

Ahh, . . . DonDiego feels much safer now. The Obama is on the case.