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Ebola Suspect Tested In California: Statements From Kaiser Permanente And Dept Of Public Health
With the Ebola epidemic raging in west-Africa, and increasingly more countries paranoid, with good reason, the epidemic may enter to their borders, the worst case scenario so far for the US has been avoided: namely an Ebola patient zero arriving on US shores. That may have changed overnight when CBS13 reported that a patient admitted to Kaiser Permanente may have been exposed to the Ebola virus, and test are currently being done to determine whether the virus is present. Shortly thereafter, the California Department of Public Health released a statement late Tuesday saying it had no confirmed cases of Ebola in the state, but that a patient it describes as low-risk was being tested in Sacramento.
According to CBS, the unidentified patient was admitted to the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center, and they have been placed in isolation. Outside of a written statement, the hospital has remained tight-lipped on orders from the administration, refusing to go on camera, and increasing its security presence. Public health officials from Sacramento County have remained silent on the issue.
The CDC has said that 60 people from California have been tested so far, with 10 of those tests being sent to the CDC for further review. All 10 of those tests came back negative. Hopefully this time will not be different.
With the test expected to take several days to complete, the US should know sometime around Friday whether or not whether Ebola has finally arrived in the US as well.
More from the report:
The medical center emphasizes all measures are being taken to protect the staff, and that the samples have been sent to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, who will test them. The tests are expected to take several days to complete.
Still, patients leaving Kaiser said no one told them about the possibility of an Ebola patient inside the hospital they had just left.
“I’m speechless; I had no idea,” said Diane Brock. Another patient leaving the emergency room agreed with that sentiment.
“They should let us know that and take better care of it,” she said. “If I got a virus from here, and took that home, I”d be upset.”
The CDC has told CBS13 that 60 people from California have been tested, with 10 of those tests being sent to the CDC for further review. All 10 of those tests came back negative.
A similar case happened in New York earlier this month, where a patient who recently visited West Africa was tested for the disease at Mount Sinai Hospital. Those tests came back negative.
More than 1,200 people have been killed by the virus in West Africa.
Below is the full statement from Dr. Stephen M. Parodi, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Director of Hospital Operations, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
We are working with the Sacramento County Division of Public Health regarding a patient admitted to the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be testing blood samples to rule out the presence of the virus.
In order to protect our patients, staff and physicians, even though infection with the virus is unconfirmed, we are taking the actions recommended by the CDC as a precaution, just as we do for other patients with a suspected infectious disease. This includes isolation of the patient in a specially equipped negative pressure room and the use of personal protective equipment by trained staff, coordinated with infectious disease specialists. This enables the medical center to provide care in a setting that safeguards other patients and medical teams.
The safety of our members, patients and staff is our highest priority. Our physicians and infectious disease experts are working closely with local and state public health agencies to monitor developments and share information.
And the statement from the California Department of Public Health
CDPH Reports No Confirmed Cases of Ebola in the State
Low-risk patient tested out of an abundance of caution
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is working with local health departments and health care providers statewide to identify patients who have traveled to countries affected by Ebola. CDPH is directing health providers to follow protocols established by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients. People returning from the affected areas who may be at high risk for Ebola should be isolated and their blood sent to CDC for testing. Some low-risk patients, like the one from Sacramento, may be tested out of an abundance of caution. CDPH works with local health departments and hospitals to arrange for proper specimen shipment and Ebola virus confirmatory testing.
There are currently no confirmed cases of Ebola in California. There have been no patients admitted to California hospitals who are considered to be at high risk of Ebola according to CDC criteria.
If a person has travelled to an affected country and develops a fever within three weeks of their return, they should contact their health care provider and let the provider know of their travel history.
The risk of the spread of Ebola in California is low. Any patient suspected of having Ebola can be safely managed in a California hospital following recommended isolation and infection control procedures. Suspect cases of Ebola will be investigated by local health departments in consultation with CDPH.
State and local public health officials in California are monitoring the situation closely and taking steps to keep Californians safe. Our advanced health care system has appropriate protocols in place to prevent the spread of this often deadly disease.
Ebola is an infectious disease caused by the Ebola virus. Symptoms may appear anywhere from two to 21 days after exposure and include fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain and abnormal bleeding. It is classified as a viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) because of the fever and abnormal bleeding. Among the VHFs, Ebola is feared because of its high mortality. There are no specific treatments but supportive therapy can be provided to address bleeding and other complications.
For more information about Ebola, please visit CDPH’s website.
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This person is not infected. They are at the wrong Kaiser. The one to watch out for is the KP in East LA
results on friday, yet we're still waiting on news from NY for 2 weeks?
The doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer is now dead taking the toll to 5 in Nigeria. Yesterday, the virus landed in Vietnam, Germany and Abu Dhabi. It has also entered India in 3 different cities. It is strange that people land at the airport and die yet officials claim they dont have Ebola. We need to be careful with this new trend of landing and dying!
Top doctor is Nigeria’s fifth Ebola death
If any of these carriers are foreigners and not East Africans, then it begs the question, how did they get it?
I am finding it hard to believe that bush meat is so tasty that they could not help themselves. I also find it very difficult to believe that anyone would willingly have sex with any of those nasty National Geographic broads. Which leaves the third option, this shit is airborne folks.
Is it time to freak the fuck out yet?
Fruit bat hot pocket?
Calebola Man!
You find it hard to believe anyone would fuck an African woman? Man, you are seriously limiting yourself there. Sex is the major recreational pursuit in Africa, and a hot African woman is as hot as any woman on earth, maybe hotter. And there are a LOT of them (hot ones, I mean).
Low testosterone levels. Grow a pair.
Anybody having engaging in that behavior especially in the third world deserves the gift that keeps on giving. African women hot huh? Sorry they don't make beer goggles thick enough for me to see that in them. Has nothing to do with testosterone and everything to do with good taste in women.
2 weeks to hear about the NYC case, but a few days elsewhere, means it's Ebola. I don't expect much warning from gov't.
Eucalyptus oil kills the virus & stops secretions from mucus membranes, a prime ebola symptom. Splash some on facemask or air-filters. Good in sauna too.
http://www.amazon.com/NOW-Foods-Eucalyptus-Oil-ounce/dp/B0019LRZ2A/ref=s...
Eucalyptus oil : Can I baste my grilled fruit bat in the stuff?
All patients suspected of having Ebola in Berlin, Myanmar, Vietnam and Delhi are Nigerians. Only 1 has so far died in Abu Dhabi. Seems Lagos airport is turning radioactive since the first infected patient Patrick Sawyer passed away on Jul 25!
How did the infected person get from West Africa to California? Did s/he walk? Hitchhike? Cross the border from Mexico?
I'll bet s/he met some interesting people along the way. They weren't interesting before, but they are now. At least I hope the authorities are interested in them.
“They should let us know that and take better care of it,” she said. “If I got a virus from here, and took that home, I”d be upset.”
Upset? Bitch? If I'm bleeding from my eyes and asshole I think 'upset' would be a huge understatement. I'd be on a bloody handed doctor touching rampage
I know, understatement of the year. For those of you not in the know, Kaiser a schlock hospital with slipshod standards to begin with. If this person really has it, it's already gotten to dozens more.
Will the scariest thing for Halloween be a "world traveler" with a cough and fever?
Think Obamacare run by unionized government employees.
Not the "A" Team.
Unfortunately Mr. Smith your stay at Kaiser may be permanente.
"They weren't interesting before, but they are now."
An old Chinese curse, it goes something like: May you live in interesting times.
I heard that's only one of three related curses. The other two are:
May you come to the attention of the authorities.
May you get everything you ever wanted.
Someone in New Mexico is getting tested for Ebola too...
Open Borders = Hope and Change.
NYC will be next...
Watch Mexico. I predicted a month ago ebola would enter the US via Mexico, not via any other route. And when it does it will come in the form of a tidal wave of terrified refugees seeking escape -- and a personal miracle.
And that is how it starts and ends folks. Not as a hot zone, not as a dropped vial in a research lab in the mountains, not as any neatly shrink-wrapped patient zero -- but as a living wave of unceasing human catastrophe overwhelming everything. There will be no amount of ammunition anywhere to stop them when they come, because they will fear more the thing they think they are leaving behind, never knowing it is riding them across the land like death on a skateboard.
Watch Mexico.
"Death on a skateboard" -- love that phrase; it's evocative. You should be a writer!
Oh wait ....
Why is the patient labeled as unidentified? Is it because the patient’s last name is Ramirez and not Adebayo? Why break the trend of stating that the patient is from West Africa? All other reports from Europe and US have stated that the person was from West Africa or was an aid worker in that area.
wait a minute. i thought a few weeks back that Nigeria had 12infected from Sawyer and 8 dead from sawyer. fudging numbers?
In the general pattern of things, we can expect upward revisions shortly.
My prediction of 5K dead ere the end might be shown a tad optimistic.
The test on the patient at Mt Sinai was negative.
Who can believe the US govt. given its superb record of veracity? Besides, Ebola in New York may be negative for the stock market. And for stop-and-frisk.
"Officer, I just returned from Liberia."
Several symptomatic people have had negative EVD tests that were positive when later repeated: there is an initial period when an infected person gives false negative results. I hope these '1-test wonders' aren't all being sent back into circulation.
Why. Do you plan on getting into their vomit or, um, worse? It's not airborn. If it were we would be talking about tens of millions of people by now. Of all the scary stuff this is the least scary, it's easy to contain (for the developed world) and hard to get (for the developed world). Now the new Polio Virus...that's another story. I'd be more worried about that.
If you think governments around the world are going to be forthright about their Ebola cases, you're an idiot. They will hide and obfuscate any danger until it breaches their ability to manage the information. Then we'll all know how bad it is, and grocery store shelves will be bare.
Say it dont spray it bra, is that my spit on your lip...gross. Oh dont mind that shoping cart or that hand cleaner this is not bacteria, its a virus. Can a fart carry that virus its small enough? Planes trains and automobiles, oh my.
If you want fase hope invest in some white gloves and a hello kitty mask. This virus is not going away.
CDC recommends "droplet" precautions. That is emphatically NOT "contact" transmission. It means a cough can spread it to people close by. Or a fart with liquid follow-through?
As for the new polio virus, I hear that has been caused by the polio vaccine. Who woulda thunk it? They can actually evolve?
Over the last dozen or so years, medical practitioners have switched from a "Killed-Virus" polio vaccine to a much cheaper "live-Virus" Polio vaccine which in some rare circumstances can infect the parents of the newly vaccinated child with the virus. I don;t quite understand how this works though, above my paygrade, if I can find the link in my archives I will post it.
You think they'd really tell you where all the sick and infected are?
I just sneezed! Oh crap!!!!!
A low-risk African tourist?
Must have just eaten a fruit bat, not fucked one.
Hopefully some company has a miracle cure they can sell to .gov agencies and make billions from fear mong... er... stories like this one.
News blackout on Iraq/ISIS
beheaded reporter story pulled
This is not like Tyler's
Check page two, story is there
It's moved to today it wasn't when I posted
Psy-ops!!1!
/s
ISIS aka al Queda killed our reporter?
I thought we were allies?
in fairness, he was a guest on FOX once...
Badabing that story is still there on page 2
No it's not. It's on page two.
Doesn't it seem that we're being made to look one way while a shit storm is happening in the Middle East ?
Very little news ever since boots on the ground in Iraq.
Why "made to look"? Does it give you some kind of solace thinking all this is a plot? That it was scripted for someone's nefarious gain?
You might want to consider the possibility that yes indeed every fucking thing in the world is coming fucking unglued at once and the reason for the apparent synchronicity is simply that we -- collectively and as individuals -- have been working very hard employing every kind of un-Godly machine of war and harvest both -- and devising an ever more convincing psychological feints -- to allow us to extract every last ounce of value out of every last exploitable thing and every last man and woman and child on earth and doing so in a way guaranteed to create exactly the kinds of nightmare outcomes we are seeing even as we wonder how in the world all these things came to pass.
It's us. We did it. It's on our heads. Soon it will be clawing down our backs, all shrieks and screams and blind horror, eating our minds and rendering us unable to move or speak or run away or even understand with the clarity of death that we have undone our dreams and unmade our selves.
If we're all going to die bleeding from our eyes, I can't think of a better place for this to start.
I can.
It rhymes with BC.
Hard to argue with that.
Ebola is a great tool for them to take away the focus off of the middle east so that they may prepare for the eventual rebuilding of the 3rd temple as prophesied in ancient texts.
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Thats where the rub of it all is.
I thought it was to distract us from the fact that the government of Ukraine that the West has backed will be lucky to survive until the start of winter and their army is being destroyed by Russian backed geurillas but you could be correct too Blotto. Maybe we both are...
I thought that was what Ferguson was for.....oh wait.....maybe that was to cover up amnesty.
All the above
A distraction is a distraction. It can draw attention away from an infinite number of things.
Ah...... The Third Temple angle
You so smart!
Keep wearing that green tin helmut, shitheel; Mossad is reading your brainwaves
Is it just me or is the Beheading story not pulled? i still have it on ZH
Was it another zioqueer hoax?
It was gone and now is back and I'm not the only one that noticed
Great. Just fking great.
No wonder all of this ferguson destraction
this is not possible the CDC said so...quel surprise...playing with infec disease control is never wise.
CDC is gov.......no worries.....they've got this.
and even if he was health - he has ebola now
I firmly believe that our commander and chief, Ebola himself, should open up a new CDC center in Ferguson to handle the ebola outbreak. Seems to be plenty of idle hands there.
FF
US government has authorized themselves to lie to everyone for any reason.
Uh-oh. Looks like Mizzou is no longer keeping ebola off the front pages. Can Robin Williams die again?
Yeah, hard to get 4 days newstime mileage on some other comic dying. Really, who wouldn't want to see Louis CK or Sarah Silverman dead? In all honesty, the RW thing was really overplayed. I can miss him, but it's a "car keys in the lava" moment and you just have to move on.
As for the ebola thing, seems a little like MRSA, which was a hot news cycle some years back. It didn't go away either, but it's chances of killing you were a little less than this. If it's true what one of the above commenters stated, that you can have false negatives early on, and something like a 10-21 day incubation, lordy you'll have 5% of the population exposed at any given time.
They can minimalize and bullshit all they want.
Any realist knows it's just a matter of time.
I live a hundred miles south in the Bay Area.
No illusions.
It's the one person unsuspected that goes to the ER with flu symptoms that scares me. I've been bleaching down all my flu specimens before opening under the hood before testing.
It's always the one you least suspect.
Miffed;-)
Kinda why i dont miss working in the lab :-( hang in there buddy. Maybe u can get an n95 mask or something
Funny thing. We just recently had our laminar flow hood decertified for improper venting. Until we can find money in the budget to replace it, we were handed boxes of N95 masks. Kinda of a WTF moment staring at a little mask that makes you look like Daffy Duck and realizing this is what stands between you and killer virus. Thank you Obama. Thank you so bloody much. Yes, I love my job.
Miffed;-)
Miffed, Stay safe. Walk out if you have to. I really doubt they would like to see a letter of resignation from you.
Just remember, Miffed, it ain't serious until they dole out the large brimmed hats.
East Africa?I thought it was West Africa...
None of this would be happening if people would just Ebola in Place.
Greetings from the Sacramento area. It was nice knowing you all.
Welcome to Fruit Cake City.
Soon to be renamed Fruit Bat City.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/494920/Ebola-Black-market-monkey-meat-c...
ISIS bioweapon in the making? Tom Clancy wrote a book about something like this.
Fire up the B52's and drop 100 MOAB's every time a reporter is killed. They'll get the fucking idea.
What we need is the head doctors at WHO and CDC to treat these patients - wearing NO PROTECTIVE GEAR - because as they KEEP SAYING - there is LITTLE DANGER of Ebola entering the US!
180 fully protected MDs and health care workers have contracted EVD, 80 of them are dead, and not because they carelessly made contact with bodily fluids, but because this new strain is probably air and contact transmittable.
WHO will release new case and death stats in a few hours for the 4 countries for the 2 day period SUN-MON 8/17-18, and if they repeat yesterday's asterisk trick so as to exclude 1 day, or both days, from Liberia's 75% contribution, or from other countries stats, then WHO's number is up.
And WHO intentionally NOT ADDING BACK the missing Liberian data will demonstrate their purpose of understating the EVD spread and suppressing awareness of a possible pandemic.
Just wait until Flu season hits this Winter; the number of false positives, or real positives - sounds like it will take a week for a person to find out (or die).
Oh boy, glad I don't work at a clinic or in an emergency room.
Flu Season - when millions of Americans come down with 'Ebola-like Symptoms' - Buy your thermometers, masks, and gloves now while you still can get them... And maybe enough food and water that you don't have to go out for a while.
Be sure to watch the free monkey show folks! Nevermind all this doom and gloom stuff, icky diseases only happen in exotic parts of the world.
Did I mention the free show, tune your recievers to Ferguson, MO! And later tonight, don't miss the start studded event that EVEYRONE is talking about, on Celebrity Dancing with the FattAssians...
We're being governed by carnies and this is a shell game. Trouble is you have to watch ALL their goddamn hands.
We keep reading of all those samples being sent to CDC for testing. One wonders how securely those samples are packaged and transported.
I sent infectious organisms to other labs for testing all the time.There are primary, secondary and tertiary boxes to help in containment. However, in a plane crash this wouldn't be remotely enough. If I am sending a select agent, the government is notified. However, there are ways around this.
Wow, I survived a plane crash! Hummmm feeling kinda feverish though.
Miffed;-)
There's also high level radioactive waste shunted around on trains and semi trucks....
Watch Bird 1, I'm too lazy to locate link, here's a lengthy copy&paste.
Hundreds of bioterror lab mishaps cloaked in secrecy 9:51 AM, August 17, 2014 | By Alison Young USA TODAY More than 1,100 laboratory incidents involving bacteria, viruses and toxins that pose significant or bioterror risks to people and agriculture were reported to federal regulators during 2008 through 2012, government reports obtained by USA TODAY show. More than half these incidents were serious enough that lab workers received medical evaluations or treatment, according to the reports. In five incidents, investigations confirmed that laboratory workers had been infected or sickened; all recovered. In two other incidents, animals were inadvertently infected with contagious diseases that would have posed significant threats to livestock industries if they had spread. One case involved the infection of two animals with hog cholera, a dangerous virus eradicated from the USA in 1978. In another incident, a cow in a disease-free herd next to a research facility studying the bacteria that cause brucellosis, became infected due to practices that violated federal regulations, resulting in regulators suspending the research and ordering a $425,000 fine, records show. But the names of the labs that had mishaps or made mistakes, as well as most information about all of the incidents, must be kept secret because of federal bioterrorism laws, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which regulates the labs and co-authored the annual lab incident reports with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The issue of lab safety and security has come under increased scrutiny by Congress in recent weeks after a series of high-profile lab blunders at prestigious government labs involving anthrax, bird flu and smallpox virus. On Friday, a CDC investigation revealed how a rushed laboratory scientist had been using sloppy practices when a specimen of a mild bird flu virus was unwittingly contaminated with a deadly strain before being shipped to other labs. Earlier this summer, other researchers at CDC potentially exposed dozens of agency staff to live anthrax because of mistakes; nobody was sickened. Meanwhile, at the National Institutes of Health, long-forgotten vials of deadly smallpox virus were discovered in a cold-storage room where they weren't supposed to be. The new lab incident data indicate mishaps occur regularly at the more than 1,000 labs operated by 324 government, university and private organizations across the country that are registered with the Federal Select Agent Program. The program is jointly run by the USDA and the CDC, which are required by law to annually submit short reports with incident data to Congress. The reports, released by CDC in response to a request from USA TODAY, contain few details beyond a count of incidents by categories, such as incidents involving bites or scratches from infected animals, needle sticks, failures of personal protection equipment, spills or specimen packages that temporarily went missing after they were shipped. No thefts were reported. Data for incidents reported in 2013 is not yet finalized, CDC said. In 2012, lab regulators received 247 reports of potential releases of dangerous pathogens. They also received 247 reports in 2011. There were 275 reports in 2010; 243 in 2009; and 116 in 2008. The reports come from regulated select agent research labs as well as clinical or diagnostic labs that are exempted from registration with federal officials but still must report incidents if they identify a select agent. "More than 200 incidents of loss or release of bioweapons agents from U.S. laboratories are reported each year. This works out to more than four per week," said Richard Ebright, a biosafety expert at Rutgers university in New Jersey, who testified before Congress last month at a hearing about CDC's lab mistakes. The only thing unusual about the CDC's recent anthrax and bird flu lab incidents, Ebright said, is that the public found out about them. "The 2014 CDC anthrax event became known to the public only because the number of persons requiring medical evaluation was too high to conceal," he said. CDC officials were unavailable for interviews and officials with the select agent program declined to provide additional information. The USDA said in a statement Friday that "all of the information is protected under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002." Such secrecy is a barrier to improving lab safety, said Gigi Kwik Gronvall of the UPMC Center for Health Security in Baltimore, an independent think tank that studies policy issues relating to biosecurity issues, epidemics and disasters. "We need to move to something more like what they do in aviation, where you have no-fault reporting but the events are described so you get a better sense of what actually happened and how the system can be fixed," said Gronvall, an immunologist by training and an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Gronvall notes that even with redundant systems in high-security labs, there have been lab incidents resulting in the spread of disease to people and animals outside the labs. She said a lab accident is considered by many scientists to be the most likely source of the re-emergence in 1977 of an H1N1 flu strain that had disappeared in 1957 because the genetic makeup of the strain hadn't changed as it should have over those decades. A 2009 article in the New England Journal of Medicine noted the 1977 strain was so similar to the one that disappeared that it suggests it had been "preserved" and that the re-emergence was "probably an accidental release from a laboratory source." "People understand that mistakes will happen," Gronvall said. "But you want it to be captured, you want it to be learned from, you want there to be a record of how it was dealt with. That's something I think should happen with biosafety." In 2012, CDC staff published an article in the journal Applied Biosafety on select agent theft, loss and releases from 2004 through 2010, documenting 727 reported incidents, 11 lab-acquired infections and one loss of a specimen in transit among more than 3,400 approved shipments. The article noted that the number of reports received by CDC likely underestimates the true number of suspected losses and releases. Still, the data "indicate that the risk of exposure to [select agents] managed by US laboratories to the general population is low." The number of reports submitted rose annually during the period, from just 16 in 2004 to 269 reports in 2010, the article said. It's unclear why the numbers in the journal article differ slightly from those in the select agent reports to Congress reviewed by USA TODAY. The newly released reports give limited information about the handful of incidents where there was occupational illness or an animal becoming unexpectedly infected. 2012: Two workers in different select agent facilities showed signs of infection with the bacteria that causes Q fever, a select agent that primarily causes illness in livestock but can also sicken people with sudden or chronic symptoms including high fevers, headaches, nausea and vomiting. While most people recover, some will experience serious illness and complications, including pneumonia, hepatitis and an inflammation of heart tissue. The report says both of the lab workers returned to full work status, but their cases were not being counted as confirmed laboratory acquired infections because each may have been infected outside their labs. One also worked with vaccine strains of the bacteria that aren't counted as select agents; the other served as a large-animal vet outside of the lab work, the report says. 2011: A worker in a privately owned veterinary clinic had a confirmed occupational exposure to the bacteria that causes tularemia, which primarily sickens rabbits and rodents. It also can cause mild to life-threatening illness in people — from skin ulcers to pneumonia — depending on how they become infected. The worker fully recovered and there was no evidence of spread to anyone else, the report says. 2010: Three reports of confirmed releases were filed with the select agent program this year, the report says. "These releases resulted in two laboratory workers who were infected with Brucella suis in two separate states." Brucella bacteria cause brucellosis, a disease primarily of sheep, goats and cattle. When people are infected, it can cause recurrent fevers, arthritis, neurologic symptoms and chronic fatigue. The third incident involved a release of Classical Swine Fever virus, also known as hog cholera, which resulted in the illness of two animals, which were euthanized. 2009: A laboratory worker contracted tularemia, received medical treatment and recovered from the infection, the report says. 2008: A research facility studying brucellosis was fined $425,000 and was ordered to suspend its research after a cow in a disease-free herd adjacent to the facility became infected with the disease. USDA officials would not answer USA TODAY's questions about the incident. CDC officials said: "The cow was destroyed. This release was determined not to be a threat to public, animal or plant health or safety." A second 2008 incident noted in the report involved a lab worker who became ill as a result of her working with brucella bacteria. There were 76 reported incidents of potential lost specimens during 2008-2012, according to the reports. In most cases, the reports attribute these incidents to inventory or record-keeping errors. In 2012, one report of a possible loss involved an entity that is not required to register with the federal select agent program. It "could not account for the select agent that had been in its custody. The loss was reported to the FBI," the report says. "The FBI concluded that the most plausible explanation was that the entity inadvertently disposed of the select agent into the biomedical waste stream." The report doesn't say what kind of agent it was.Sorry, the Edit and tabs did not work...
Thanks boattrash and Miffed. Implications abound.
that was too long. I didn't read it.
Looking more and more like a Snake Plisken trailer...
http://thebookgallery2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/beyond-ebola-preparation....
If it is going to spread in California, then Sacremento is a good place to start.
"They should let us know that and take better care of it,” she said. “If I got a virus from here, and took that home, I”d be upset.”
Uh, you'd be a little more than upset...you could be a threat to the lives of your family and community. That said, they're simply testing someone there, and have tested 10 others with 10 negative results. Disturbing, ebola's spread in West Africa though..
Is there any chance the patient is Jerry Brown?
"mission accomplished"
What a great way to deter unnecessary emergency room visits, average wait time LA 45 minutes
Hope and change
Kaiser
Khazar