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Second Dallas Patient Exhibiting Ebola Symptoms - Live Feed
Following the sad death of Thomas Duncan this morning, CBS is now reporting that a possible second case of Ebola has been discovered in a suburb of Dallas:
- *DALLAS AREA PATIENT SHOWS EBOLA SYMPTOMS: CBS
The patient claims to have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, referred to as Dallas ‘patient zero.’
NEW: CareNow says patient checked "YES" to question on screening form about travel to West Africa.
— Ryan Wood (@RyanWoodDFW) October 8, 2014
Live Feed (via CBS Local)
An afternoon news conference has been called in Frisco, a suburb of Dallas, to discuss a possible second case of Ebola.
The patient claims to have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, referred to as Dallas ‘patient zero.’
It is not clear how the patient had contact with Duncan or if the patient was one of the about 50 people being monitored by state and local health officials.
The call came in shortly after noon from Care Now, 301 Main Street, where the patient was “exhibiting signs and symptoms of Ebola.”
The patient is being transported to a nearby hospital by Frisco firefighter-paramedics.
First responders are also examining clinical staff and other patients. It is unknown how many other people may have been exposed to the patient.
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#Breakingnews latest potential #Ebola patient arrives at Presby in #Dallas pic.twitter.com/9be2OJiuKd
— Jason Wheeler (@jasonwheelertv) October 8, 2014
PHOTO: Frisco firefighters are now wearing haz-mat suits. They'll soon enter the CareNow clinic. pic.twitter.com/SaJSjbIe3r
— Ryan Wood (@RyanWoodDFW) October 8, 2014
PHOTO: Firefighters set up an isolation tent inside an ambulance at the Frisco CareNow as a precaution. #ebola pic.twitter.com/7sJmEseBln
— Ryan Wood (@RyanWoodDFW) October 8, 2014
#BREAKING Patient at a Frisco Care Now clinic showing symptoms of possible Ebola. Claims contact with Thomas Duncan. pic.twitter.com/nytLbPgnoh
— Ryan Wood (@RyanWoodDFW) October 8, 2014
#MORE Frisco firefighters are taking precautions at the clinic. NO confirmation that patient had contact with Duncan. pic.twitter.com/rnhV86lYcD
— Ryan Wood (@RyanWoodDFW) October 8, 2014
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If you are already at risk of handling anything that might be Ebola-ed (I've verbed a noun! Yay!) you should already have bought your own gear.
If it's a matter of $, then I'll donate $50 towards the cause if you'll keep posting or maybe update a blog. Tell me the Paypal details and make sure Paypal won't ask this Canadian to create a damn account (it's a long story and long fight involving their getting access into my bank accounts that involved my dying first) and I'm in. I'm not being an ass about this, I just want you continuing to breathe on this planet.
Okay, I might be an ass about this, but I still want you to continue to update and breathe. So let me know the Paypal details, okay?
In the meanwhile I have to go explain to my mother that I haven't lost my mind and yes we need more cans of beans.
Well that was the heartiest laugh I have had in days! Thanks for that. Here's a virtual kiss on the forehead for being so sweet but what would make me more happy would be if you spend that $50 buying more canned beans. The window of opportunity is closing now and you eating is far more important than reading a blog. Mr Miffed made a Costco run today. How much longer will this be available? Tomorrow we slaughter our meat birds and will have about 100lbs of meat in the freezer.
Funny, I get so many offers from Canadians. One even asked me to marry him just to " get me out of my crazy country" ( Mr did not give his blessing on that one. In fact, I'm thankful my iPad didn't go into a wood chipper).
I promise I will do my best to keep breathing. You do so as well. The first responders to a medical crisis understand my fears. I think many are watching Dallas play out to guide themselves when it hits closer to home. None of us wants to bring this home to our friends and family.
Miffed;-)
Tx for bringing my smile back.
I have taken to hiding them under the bed of my brother. He ain't home until December, but the look on his face when he gets home will be priceless.
Love your input miffed :) I share your fears being a paramedic on the front lines. Our dispatch gives limited info to any job we go to, we sometimes have talk to multiple people, and walk through the entire house before we see our patient. Going into multiple houses a day, in and out of hospitals... I have never used so much alcohol hand wash or disinfected my medical equipment in the past 2 weeks.
Deciding at what point do I call it quits and decide how i am going to pay the bills....
The average Joe don't know nuthin'. The average Joe thinks Ebola is the President of the United States.
would it be possible for you to wear your own hazmat suit in the lab? could you buy and use your own ppe?
Yeah, right out the ass!
Yes, but those wouldn't turn my innards to purple slime. I like my internal organs in their current condition, thank you (well, my liver could probably use some help).
"People are letting the Media fear monger you with Ebola.. anyone remember H1N1 (Bird/Swine Flu)"
You may be right about Ebola, only time will tell, but the fact remains that *if* a perfect virus came out of West Africa (or another tropical zone) then PC would guarantee that the correct medical response would not be adopted and millions would die unnecessarily.
"PC would guarantee that the correct medical response would not be adopted"
Yes, and if this plays out the way it very possibly may, history will view Obama as a patheric joke of a President (and of a man) who trifled with his responsibilities.
He weighed the risk of allowing ongoing flights to enter the US from a part of the world where an out of control epidemic of fatal disease was boiling over against the risk of violating political correctness, of appearing to "discriminate" against black and brown people. He weighed the potential of dead Americans in the millions against PC ... and chose PC!
He used the half-baked pronouncements and opinions (yes, opinions!) of a PC CDC director for cover. No REAL leader would ever do a thing like that.
Historians will judge you Mr. Obama. I wouldn't even try to come up with the words that will used to describe you.
And people, if it turns out somehow that this virus is far more fatal to blacks than to other races as it spreads through the US... you have a black man to thank for that!
The history books will come to view Obama as racist, for allowing Africans to enter the country without some reasonable screening/quarantine process. But we already knew this after the Trayvon looking like his would be son incident.
mark
You've proved to be an asshole twice in one sentence. Amazing
Maybe he will retort for the trifecta!
The trifecta was that he wasn't first.
No bragging alloyed in fight club.
Barack, that you ?
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Having your fyrst comment down-voted into the lowest levels of Hell ... maybe you picked the wrong blog? Just say'n
I think he thought that he was going to be "first comment" on the thread.
Those are always the best fails.
FIRST Bitchez!
(except for the three posts above mine)
pods
Everyone knows you can only be first on the thread if it's a post about Abenomics.
It's also easy to be the "FIRST!" comment on a chart porn article.
Have to agree with you cougar. I don't think I've accumulated that many downvotes in all of my posts combined over nearly three years of posting.
Somebody get this boy a map to HuffPo or DailyKos or some such.
And your grandfather was a prostitute. It's called being informed and hive mind thinking.
worst comment
their is a legend concerning the invention of chess for a king. The king asked the inventor to name his price. The inventor said that he would like one grain of wheat for the first square and double for the second square upto the 64th square. By the time you get to the 64th square it represents more grain than has ever been grown in the history of this planet.
The unknown is how many ebola refugees are currently in America? I hope the answer is zero. If it isn't then you will care. You have people you care about.
Jesus saves.
I heard on TV an hour or so ago that 'approx 150 people a day are coming from W. Africa afflicted areas to Amereica'.
Great. No need to stop that, huh
Shits getting real
Not yet. Watch for case number 4 in a week. Then it's started getting warmed up, cos it means there are 8 unknown cases out there in the wild. Think 3 weeks ahead of the current numbers.
By that account, there should be 5 million people in Africa with bleeding orifices, no?
That doesn't jive with the reported numbers for some reason...
You believe the reported numbers? I sure as fuck don't.
Reporting of cases in Liberia has already broken down.
Exponentials are predictable and with something like Ebola it's worth extrapolating out to see what's likely happening right now and "soon". The reported cases show you what happened in the past. With a gestation period of up to 21 days you have to extrapolate out 3 weeks to see what's going on now.
So how do you predict an exponential? Well they all have a doubling period. The time it takes for the numbers to double, and this is 70[1] / %percentage change per period. So 5% more per day means 70/5 => doubling every 14 days. In Africa the doubling period is/was ~24 days => 3%/day. So. 2 cases now... -> 4 in about 3 weeks. Look for the 4th case, they were infected 2-3 weeks ago and it means that today there are probably 4 more out there right now because it's bang on the exponential growth curve.
What's the population of Dallas? 2 / 1.2 million is insignificant so far.
[1] 70 isn't just an arbitrary number, it's ~ 100 * natural log of 2. This is all high school maths BTW.
Not to be a turkey, but I think you mean jibe, j-i-b-e. Here is some jive, j-i-v-e...
And it's incubation, not gestation .... Details, details.
Bottom line - whatever and however one puts it -
We Are Getting Into Deep Shit and there is a Fan coming at us. Big Fan.
if it started in remote villages in regions with a poor transport system then that would slow it down. as it has now reached African cities then either it'll prove to have been exagerrated or it will have spread like wildfire. we should know soon.
Have you not been paying attention ??
Ebola is in large cities and spreading like wildfire.
And it will do better in cool climates. Viruses like cool climates. That's why we have a flu-season. Ft. Detrick, MD says ebola as comfortable in cool climates as influenza A.
PATIENT NEEDS 8.2 GRAM OF VITAMIN C FOR EVERY 100LB IN BODY WEIGHT DAILY. 1000MG IS 1GRAM
Zirpedge, 4 grams of Vit C blah, blah. You're fucking retarded. Shut the fuck up. No vitamin with prevent nor cure Ebola, stupid fuck.
May I suggest the experimental vaccine for you?
I think you should use vitamins, including C in quantity now, maybe (2-4) 1,000 mg doses per day. D also. Ones body needs to be strong to fight this sucker back.
I'm all for giving yourself as much chance as possible.
Funny, that's not what Linus Pauling said.
But I suppose you must have THREE Nobel Prizes, right?
Nobel Prizes? You mean that dubious honor afforded to the likes of Obammy and Krugman? That particular prize no longer has the cachet it once did.
Although I would not recommend mega doses of Vitamin C as a cure all, your immune system does depend very much on some common vitamins that americans are surely deficient in.
C & D for starters.
pods
Ebola destroys tissue. That's why sufferers bleed out. If your body doesn't get enough vitamin C, you get scurvy, which is your body failing to produce enough tissue to keep up with wear and tear, so your teeth and nails start falling out. Eventually, you die. Vitamin C is nessesary for tissue growth / replacement. As such, in the new ebola-era, lots of vitamin C sounds lkke a good idea.
http://www.energygrid.com/health/2014/08sh-survivingebola.html
If you have to explain to people that 1000 mg= 1 gram they have no business making a Hot Pocket, nevermind dosing themselves with anything.
pods
LOL
Not sure what you mean. My gram is 84. Gramps died a few years back.
I play myself down to the demographics here, thanks.
A couple of other things to look at are BHT and Lauricidin.
They can both work agains a lipid enveloped virus.
@ Augustus
You probably should not recommend BHT to regular people because they must be aware of how bad it is if you take too much.
Secede Texas we're done with you.
Secede Texas be done with DC.
#fixed
If Texas secedes from DC, I'll move there in a heartbeat, ebola or no ebola.
If Texas had seceded already they wouldn't have this problem. They would have shut down flights from that hell-hole.
Contained and not at all airborn bitchez!
It's still amazing to me that this guy helped carry a pregnant girl with ebola to the hospital and back and watcher die and then jumped on a plane back here and let himself get discharged from the hospitial when he had to know he had it. He should have screamed his head off that he needed to be quarantined immediately. Raced back here just to basically kill himself and infect others...
Seriously, how do you get anyone to treat these people knowing that so many healthcare providers are getting it? Just hand them a Hefty bag and tell them to clean up their organs as they ooze out of their orifices and turn off the lights on their way out. We'll be back in about 2 weeks to firebomb the place.
I'm always horrified when a prospective employee asks;
"how many little lines is an inch ?
Thats when I answerr 25.4 and goodbye, and have a nice life..
Measure that and tell me the dimension.
27 and a half and 1, 2, 3 lines. True story.
Applicant: "You must really like chocolate!"
Tired Manager: "Why do you say that?"
Applicant: "Because you measure everything in M&M's."
When the story doesn't make any sense maybe there's a real story lurking back there? We are being fed lies, someone has something nefarious planned but what is it?
It's just PC. PC makes people lie all the time because the PC version of reality is simply not true. It's not just the medical system **nothing** actually works properly any more because of PC.
It's just much more noticeable when it's a life or death situation.
Epitome of the times. Everyone going about thier lives as if no one else exists or matters.
fonz: Don't embarrass yourself with such simple reasoning.
"Raced back here just to basically kill himself and infect others..."
Wrong.
He raced over here in a last ditch attempt to save his life by getting into the best medical facilities in the world. He knew he was dead-meat in Liberia. Maybe, just maybe, if he could beat the 21-day incubation period, he would have a chance to get into an American hospital, and be saved.
He made some mistakes: 1) He should have immediately married the woman here - so that if he died, she would be able to sue the hospital for millions; if you can't make it rich alive, make a way to make your family rich by dying, 2) He should have raised unstoppable Hell to get admitted, 3) He should have called the press when they didn't admit him and get them to put him on the front page - he would have been in isolation before the ink dried.
He won't be the last to make this last-ditch attempt to save their life. If you know you got exposed - even if you might have gotten exposed but don't know for sure, get your fanny into Obama's disease ward (formerly known as the United States) as fast as you can. Travel to some other country to start your trip other than in West Africa - no use making it too obvious what the game plan is for you.
And now for the military - which is going to be infected and spread this throughout the country's military establishment: If I start to see senior flag officers being fragged, I will cheer on the people who took them out. They are disgusting pigs interested in nothing but how much they will make on some MIC Board. They are unfit to live.
We all know how this is going to turn out - this is the Black Swan we've all discussed. It will make the Black Plague look like a walk in the park.
My only question is how long will it be before an enraged crowd surrounds the Murder-in-Chief's limo, and drags him out into the street to kill him with their bare hands?
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'He should have called the press'
How much will a homeless guy charge to stand in front of a hospital yelling, in his best accent, “Help! Help! I have Ebola!”?
I got twenty in on that!
I base my reasoning on him allowing himself to be discharged the first time. It was a death sentence and he knew it. If you come back here for "the finest healthcare in the world" or whatever...you make sure you get it.
Ultimate Cognitive Dissonance.
“Look Boo, the American Doc gave me antibiotics. I’m cured, take off your panties!”
"Enraged crowd"? You have the wrong country.
It is contained - inside airplanes! Fly at your own risk, and your family's risk.
There is a 0% chance of catching ebola on the plane. I know this because experts told me so.
The expert drove 2000 miles to his press conference.
Thanks! Whew - back to 'Dance Moms'...
Airborne??? Oh, certainly not. Don't be silly.
Look at the financial cost for just picking 1 person up. $10k-20K?
You thought we were broke before...
Bitchez....I pick up pennies
What are you talking about that is a boost to GDP! Bullish!
Is he member of the Free Shit Army???? LIVE FREE OR DIE
Please ZH, reach out to CDC people returned from Liberia. It is a grave (bad pun) disservice to continue to report 7K infected, 3K dead in Liberia. Those numbers, the "reported infections" and "reported deaths" do not represent in the least what has already happened.... most infections and deaths in the countryside have never been "reported". Or that the actual, not reported, mortality rate is 80%. Liberia is literally a dead/dying country.
Before Ebola, Liberia was a dead/dying country.
Please ZH, reach out to CDC people returned from Liberia. It is a grave (bad pun) disservice to continue to report 7K infected, 3K dead in Liberia. Those numbers, the "reported infections" and "reported deaths" do not represent in the least what has already happened.... most infections and deaths in the countryside have never been "reported". Or that the actual, not reported, mortality rate is 80%. Liberia is literally a dead/dying country.
curmudgery, I heard the same stats. 80% death rate and many more casualties that officially reported. Why the fuck are US troops going there? Send medical volunteers, don't ORDER military personnel into that shit hole.
I wonder if I'll still receive that $35 million in unclaimed money that low-level Nigerian banker told me he found laying around the vault. All he needed was a few hundred dollars to 'free it up' and make the transfer ?
Gee, I hope he doesn't catch the Ebola .... I'm relying on that money ....
A good thing those troops didn't just sign up for the steady paycheck, health benefits, and cool toys....
Let the panic begin!
He who panics first, panics best
Didn't they get the message that it would not spread? This has got to be false as the Government told us it was a Zero chance.
Except dogs that lick up vomit ?
When does shooting season open (sorry to say)...but I've an indoor ONLY cat.
Planet of the Apes (the plot where the pets all die off/carry ebola) may become real.
dismal.
Ebola FUD 23.0.
An American, not US subject.
"Did you hear, Adam Lanza has Ebola."
My dog landed a nice coiler on my porch and then proceeded to hump the mailman.
He is that fucking cynical.
Ebola news can only happen on Tuesdays,Wednesdays and Thursdays. Friday,Saturday,Sunday and Monday are reserved for the morons to attend their football games for worship of false idols, and by cheap China goods marked up 500% all the while making the slave feel free and prosperous.
I think it's ok to enjoy football and still see the world for what it is... the two are NOT necessarily mutually exclusive...
I would like to agree but I can not knowing what I do. It is a distraction from real world issues and it works for the simple-minded individuals. And I am not saying you are simple-minded.
"I think it's ok to enjoy football and still see the world for what it is... the two are NOT necessarily mutually exclusive..."
Ha Ha Ha. Watching rigged NFL games is as being in the matrix as one can possibly even get.
If you actually "see the world for what it is" you would find the NFL as enjoyable as watching paint dry.
Yep.
I can barely make it through 4 quarters today, after being a hugely passionate life long fan. It's difficult to verbalize however there is just something "off" about the whole experience.
Blame the Vegas line.
Short Stadiums
and crowds of all kinds.
Here we go, GEOMETRIC!!!
Grab your guns, head for your perimeter. This bitch is CONTAINED!
Exponential actually. Geometric would be much preferred.
I may just be a cry for attention. You will have to wait for the blood test.
Time to stockup some food, and beer. so i can watch this show from a distance
ammo toilet paper more ammo
Patient Zero accomplished his mission.
Prolly etching the star into the wall @ Langley.
I could reiterate Bush's "great job...bxxxxxe" but it would be insensitive
They need more vehicles at that site. No cops cars, swat teams - posers.
Yes...where is the guy with THE END IS NEAR sign
And his buddy, Mr John 3:16.
let's get all the liberals to the airports to hug and welcome all the people getting off flights from the infected countries. it's safe right?
As a show of solidarity, they should all invite one to stay in their homes.
Better watch what you say. Mainly black guys are coming in from West Africa…. You know how Palin ‘loses’ herself when she’s around black dudes.
This is getting so bad the track Africa by Toto is starting to play in my head all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xam01uaj6Vg
You are welcome.
That's a cool song though, so it's okay.
Unpossible! The CDC said it was contained!
Remember the Ebolamo!
Dallas cheerleaders refuge here.
Offer good for 24 hours only.
Poor guy. Hope they don't kill his family and quarantine his dog.
That would be Spain.
"Long DuPont," the first time these words have been uttered since John tortured Schultz into sayin it.
Wait I thought you had to eat fruit bat to come down with ebola.
I thought Carne Asada was Mexican for "Fruit bat?"
They love them some Carne Asada in Texas.
pods
You saying this guy partook in bat cunninglus?
Sicko
Well it is a baby eating dingo, so the whole bat thing is kind of tame by comparison...
Well I've never been to spain
but I hear they got Ebola
they say the girls there are insane
cause they bleeding out both hole las
you got ebola, ain't going to hold ya, ya got Ebola !!!
/ I'm dead for sure, but its been a nice life...
I really, really, should not have marked you up for that. What is wrong with me? Bad Hulk, bad.
I wondered why there was a news helicopter hovering nearby. This is literally two blocks from my apartment.
Apparently, it CAN happen here. :(
Okay that does it. From now on I'm only browsing ZH from the safety of my hazmat suit and inside my biosafe-4 bubble tent.
Wow. Be careful. Maybe a good time to take a little vacation... even if just a cheap hotel down the road a ways for a week or two. Wait to see how this turns out. I am expecting the news to be all over this. We should know in less than 2 weeks.
Its to soon he doesn't have it. Untill the family comes down with it its just a cry for attention.
Imagine the shit that chopper blast is blowing around...
Bingo !
Any fire or wind will spread it all over the place. Unless its some type of thermobaric or super acid to melt the whole block down...
Maybe a Chernobyl or Fukushima Class sar·coph·a·gus .... covering the whole neighborhood, or massive tarp with plastic melted down from top.
GET OUT ! (and it spreads around)
dismal.
If someone of you had Ebola - you should go to washington dc and try to meet and shake hand of some of assholes
I'm in the process of inventing Ebola resistant clothing...
http://cdn.instructables.com/FAM/2VVL/FYTCLN86/FAM2VVLFYTCLN86.LARGE.jpg
$19.99 and if you act now! for the next 10 minutes Ill toss in two pair of Ebola resistant Oven mitts with every order!
CALL NOW!
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQaztA-k1KbXy5l5hdKQiL795rHQwPzhvKX2-JAS39wEcN4s8fH
Do you have any Kitten Mittons?
I would have targeted the ages 2-37 Halloween market. But that's just me.
Anti-Ebola Vomit Bags.
Ebola sidewalk scraper.
This anti-list is endless, and has a 10 page disclaimer.
Does that come with a money back guarantee ?
Well there goes another team of first responders that will be out of commision for 21 days. Many more of those and guess what, there won't be any coming to help you with that heart attack. Ebola is eating into our' infrastructure.
This asshole went to an IMMEADIATE CARE CLINIC for self suspected Ebola?
All of the poor sniffly children w/ mom......
One organism is definitely out evolving another here.
Being dumb doesn't make him an asshole. Just makes him the average American.
Said idiot was actually a Sheriff's deputy who entered Duncan's apartment.
Poor bastard.
Wait ... the hell? Are you shitting me? No way. Link or GTFO.
https://twitter.com/RyanWoodDFW/status/519936557684641792
Well for Pete's sake:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/local/article/Report-Patient-claiming-contact...
Now I have a question: what is a deputy from Dallas doing in San Francisco checking himself into an acute care clinic? That's about 6 kinds of what-the-actual-fuck going on right there.
EDIT: Ha ha! I saw "Frisco" and assumed that meant S.F. which hates being called "Frisco" but everyone does it. So I can relax.
If you haven't yet heard, coug, one or two employees at a beauty salon that did some work on the Spanish nurse are now suspected of being infected.
What difference does it make TM.
Your screen name.
Probably the only place that takes his shitty cop insurance.
Everyone is inventing the processes on the fly as they happen. There is no process. We need Nigerian/Liberian doctors over here now, FUCK THE CDC.
I am NOT kidding. They have on the ground reality in their brains and cells. Give them this equipment and not only would they save our sorry asses, but they could probably save their own countries too.
Arrogance, ignorance, bureaucratic red tape, short sighted finances, politics, and political correctness (a different problem) are going to kill us.
deep discounts on air travel to ensue