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America's First Ebola Patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, Has Died
The first US Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, who was treated in Texas, has just died:
- TEXAS HEALTH REPORTS DEATH OF EBOLA PATIENT THOMAS ERIC DUNCAN
And while we await the inevitable CDC press conference to follow, the stock of CMRX, whose medicine was being used to treat him, is plunging.
As Bloomberg reports,
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died from the virus while in isolation at a Dallas hospital.
Duncan was diagnosed with the disease on Sept. 30 after contracting it in his native Liberia, where Ebola has infected about 7,500 people, killing half. He had come to the country to marry his girlfriend, Louise Troh, who is now being quarantined and has not yet shown symptoms of the disease.
"It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am,” Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said in a statement today.
Some more from Bloomberg:
Duncan was in serious condition until Saturday, when his kidneys failed and he was put on dialysis. That afternoon he received the experimental drug brincidofovor, made by Durham, North Carolina-based Chimerix Inc (CMRX), according to statements from the hospital, which has declined to say if the patient received any other experimental treatment.
Duncan was also receiving oxygen on a ventilator and medication to stave off infection, according to the hospital.
A nephew, Josephus Weeks, said earlier today that Duncan did not receive any serum from Ebola survivors, a treatment given other survivors. Kent Brantly, a U.S. doctor who recovered after being infected, has donated serum to at least two other patients.
Asked in a text-message interview if the family thinks blood serum derived from disease survivors should have been used, Weeks said, “We begged and pleaded several times. They said it’s too late in his treatment. They didn’t try any other options but saline, oxygen and water.”
So the lawsuits are coming.
In any event, one can only hope he is the last Ebola casualty on US soil. Unfortunately, when the best plan the "smartest and brightest" in the room can come up with is to take the temperature of West Africa travelers, he won't be.
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"You have the right, not to be killed".
I think any company that bases its name on "chimera" deserves a plunge or two. Which is why if you're ever in Grand Rapids, MI, look up Chimera for some high-class hookers. You gotta ask around near Lafayette in "old-town" Heritage Hill. The alleged mother of my first child let a Chimera whore shack with her for a short while. This Korean ho said she was paid a grand to drape herself on a grand piano, swim naked in a pool and spoon with some sad, old bald thing.
Ah the 90s -- when women were hot and Ross Perot was our only hoap.
ONE man died of Ebola in Texas. Everybody PANIC!
/sarc
It's never too late to start prepping.
Until it is, when everything is no longer available.
They are saying the cost of Duncan will be over $500,000...and he had no insurance....so who is going to pay for this?????
The productive successful people whose earnings get confiscated under penaly of imprisonment through the "income tax".
Except that the "successful" people don't pay tax. They are the top 0.001% and they control you and everyone else. They privately own you. What we are living in now is the polar opposite of socialism, it is the inevitable end result of capitalism which must grow exponentially to function. When it can no longer grow then the "capitalists" need to resort to stealing from the masses to make their profits. Then it is branded as "socialism" but it is anything but. Socialsim is wealth distribution from the rich to the masses. What we now have is wealth distribution from the masses to the rich.
I agree with you absolutely in your theme, emphasis and tangent.
However: if one understands he is simply the representative of a corporation, say 255-78-9878, he will then understand the separation between the meat and the number. If this man takes it upon himself to learn how profit-earning corporations protect their assets from unlawful seizure, he can protect his own corporation.
A corporate CFO (or other) has the fiduciary responsibility to protect the corporation and its assets. It's really quite simple when you break it down.
Back to you, looking at the empty shelves at Sam's, I agree the poorest and stupidest are being fleeced for every last dime and every last millimeter of plastic.
Mark_BC,
You meant "crony" capitalism didn't you? Not sure we've ever really tried capitalist proper.
Yeah I think we had capitalism a century ago. But it inevitably morphs into crony capitalism and then a 1984 type scennario, then tyrrany, anarchy, revolution, then a restart from the ashes. I also see communism ending in the same place. They are both isms and too simplistic and ideological to have much real world relevance.
Fed Canon BubbleJet #345
They just write it off as goodwill. Yes I'm not a professional accountant.
They can likely get some Federal dollars to cover part or all of it. If they can't, then it would be written off as bad debt expense. Some chance individual's contribute to cover part of this.
The bill may have been $500,000, but the actual cost was probably 1/10th that. And considering that the medical care he got was substandard, even $50,000 seems extravagant. They probably "hastened him along" because they knew he couldn't pay.
Too bad he is dead. I just hope he didn't infect anyone else.
Good riddens
There are some really ugly people here, and as the stress increases they get uglier. This is what our secular society produces.
I live in a small American town in which many, perhaps most people still go to church, still hang flags outside their houses on holidays. They're hard working, friendly, family-oriented, but don't take any guff either. No one sounds like what many people who comment here sound like.
Our ruin is not ebola.
Now I'm out of here. Best wishes to all.
P.S.
An old friend who is an RN of long experience told me that she's glad she's not in med-surg any more.
Duncan is dead because he helped his friend Sonny Boy Williams carry William's sister to the hospital. It was an unselfish act.
The reason he was exposed to ebola does not matter. He had no right to put millions of Americans at risk by lying on his exit questionnaire. This was a selfish criminal act. He may yet be dragging innocent Americans, including kids, to the grave with him.
Is it possible for a man to be unselfish in helping a friend with a sick woman whom he must have realized might have Ebola, but then become selfish enough to put others in harm's way by coming to U.S. and expose others, including family members? Not adding up, too late to ask him.
Just so, robertocalos. Who cannot have compassion for one who helped carry a convulsing, pregnant teenager to a clinic ... only to see her turned away due to no room and subsequently die horrifically a few hours later?
What was in this man's heart and head as he made successful plans to come to the US may never be known.
While I originally was inclined to give Duncan the benefit of the doubt as to his motives and awareness, the significant amount of publically available info strongly suggests that this was a man fleeing for his life.
LET THERE BE NO DOUBT, to brush aside Duncan's behavior in fatally jepordizing many people - ESPECIALLY those close to him - is irrational.
Well, you are in luck. Thanks to the dead Negro, you and your small town can go 'full zombie'. Bless your heart, and y'all come back now, you hear?
So it wasn't Lupus?
The rightfielder from the Bad News Bears?
Historians have noted the Bubonic plague caused a labor shortage that caused wages to rise.
US with interest rates down to near zero and mulitple QEs still can't get a good bounce for another round of false prosperity. PLAN B: Thinning the heard to end the labor problem and drive wages up will keep the enconomy going enough so that NATO's wars of aggression around the world can rage on.
Bullish!
Someone died today?
OMG!!!
"At the Dallas hospital where Duncan died on Wednesday morning, anyone who had contact with the body must wear personal protective equipment that includes a scrub suit, cap, gown over the suit, eye protection, face mask, shoe covers and two pairs of gloves. Afterward, they must take off that gear very carefully and wash their hands thoroughly.
Duncan's body must be wrapped in a plastic shroud and should not be washed. The protocol calls for it to be placed into a zippered leak-proof plastic bag and then into a second bag. The bags and the room will then be disinfected.
The driver who takes the body to the mortuary does not need to wear the protective gear, but the mortuary workers should. The body should be either cremated or placed into a hermetically sealed casket — at which point the remains are deemed safe enough for a funeral."
This is going to collapse when there are 10 or more bodies.
Ebola bodies should not be going to funeral homes IMHO.
The driver does not need PPE but the mortuary/crematorium staff do? Sounds like they plan on taking bodies out of bags. Very bad idea.
Awesome. What happens if there is a car crash while the dead Ebolian is in transit? LOL
And what happens when an Ebola carrier, who is not yet showing symptoms, gets seriously splattered in a car accident?
Wont take many infections down at the funeral home until the corpses are left in the street, just like over in Baboontown, Liberia.
That stupid Bitch Pelosi should wash the Ebolian’s feet.
Ganbatte Ebola-chan!
I LOVE YOU EBOLA-CHAN!
Ebola-chan fanfiction: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10732574/1/The-Passion-of-Saint-Ebola-chan
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/combating-ebola-in-liberia/13/
A woman wipes her nose after protesters drove out an Ebola burial team who had come to collect the bodies of four people who had died overnight in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 16, 2014.
Love the T-Shirt!
Fuck him.
He knew he was infected and lied to come soak off of the US taxpayer.
He also knew damned well that doing so he would as likely as not infect and possible cause the death of other persons.
He was a criminal stealing care and directly negligenly endangering coulntless other people.
A fucking vampire is different how?
Fuck him.
Life is Excellent by Bobby Joe Ebola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqmRdp11DlI
I swear the news guy on NECN (New England Cable News) said this morning that this guy was stabilized. I think it was around 6:30AM Eastern time and definitely was between 6 and 7AM but the guy said it. Stabilized must be the new code when you flatline.
Flatline is damned stable.
http://youtu.be/GGWwiqbBZzM
Here is how that Spanish nurse that was infected by Ebola was treated. She warned health authorities three times that she was sick but they send her away with paracetamol. When she eventually was transported to a hospital -by unprotected workers- it took a while before she was quarantined.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/spanish-ebola-nurse-symptom...
Mi Ebola es su Ebola.
We'll be seeing more cases there. Major screw-up, again.
I'm slowly coming to the realization that the world really is not prepared for this.
Great find, Joe A.
That is required reading for anyone who wants to see how the real world works.
why would we let him in the country. this is stupidity at its finest or a planned event.
Tag 'em and bag 'em.
Can you catch Ebola by fondling your stacks?
Is there any snot on your stacks? Better ask the cdc.
Anyone buying CRMX on the news they had a drug being given to a patient with ebola, that had been symptomatic for so long deserves to get smashed!
The problem is that AUTHORITIES are rarely authorities in anything other than collecting paychecks and doing as little as possible until quitting time, all the while bitching that their pensions covering nearly 100% of their wages do not reflect the importance and criticality of what they do...
dat right, pubic servis is dee mos' noble servis...dey ca' lift dere face up and all...
And also saying they could make sooooo much more in the private sector but they want to "serve" in government so they will sacrifice and take the lower wages and back-breaking workload.
On a long enough timeline......
One down, 10 million more to go.
By early spring, if R0 and case fatality rate stay the same. It will spread in the same manner as influenza - small droplet, direct contact and fomites.
sniff sniff cough cough....oh sorry i just mudered you with cdc coolly unconcerned, indifferent, unexcited, casual concern finally got an epidemic and couldn't handle it to feel important ebola.
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.
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.
It's a real shit sandwich. We are going to need a drug or vaccine to stop this thing. Let's pray we get one or both.
The race baiters are using this man's death to furthur their agenda. I hate them so much.
How?? I don't see racism and try to be impartial.
I think that makes you a "race traitor" under their nebulous rules. So if it helps they hate you right back. Sorry I can't be more helpful, but I'm just a "mud person."
HEALTH CARE WORKERS READ THIS: If you are in a hazmat suit, you should be properly cloaked within, including balaclava. Cut yourself out of the suit using a blade stashed inside, possibly in your inner-pocket pockets. Cut yourself from the ass or wherever you had no contact with anyone. (It's easy to do, even a reporter as stupid as me can do it.)
Reason.*
*Flaccid CNN link, but if you're in a suit other than Tyvek Osmocote, cut yourself out.
Why, if you are in a suit other than Tyvek Osmocote, must you cut yourself out? Where is the contamination problem? Does getting washed down with dilute bleach solution change that recommendation? Link? (pref other than CNN)
It does appear that healthcare workers would be better served by a full-face respirator with P100/HEPA filters.
Hardly contagious at all!
I'm no expert on this subject, but I just now rubbed dog shit on a piece of plastic wrapped around a piece of wood, secured with duct tape, and when I unwrapped the duct tape, the shit went everywhere. I think it's even in my nose.
Thankfully I'm sure my neighbor's dog is ebama-free or I would have to have done the ethical thing, poisoned him inside a DuPont Tyvek* body bag.
*infers no commercial endorsement although I am heavily-invested in polymers and polymer accessories
I work with potent compounds and don/doff PPE like tyvek suits every day. You would be a fool to cut your way out of your suit. You decon with a light mist then roll the suit off. My workplace hazard is narcotic overdose, and there are certain tasks that ar eperformed with an EMT present. I realize narcotic dusts are not infectious agents, but the principle is more or less the same.
Same mist until dry, then emergence from suit. Nothing radical. Roll-off puts another life at risk, in my experience. We must however agree suits are worth less than lives.
d'bola comin' peepez...but jus' gonna affec da' blacks, jus aks Fara-con...
TED's DEAD....3 names is eating pizza in the basement of the old white house. Cee'M dRugX only drops a few bucks...ah
I remember 3,4,5 star companies dropping 1/4 for no reason not long ago then 1/4 then a 1/4.
Invest in duct tape and rolled plastic sheets....lol
That stupid bastard only cared about himself. His family all died of that shit. He knew he had it and wanted u.s. to save him so he flew to texas. Just reward for being a selfish ass they let him die.
Bad-ass!
(Not sure where this applies, but I wanted to somehow work the buzz-word of the year in, just to appear to be as cool as, say, Adam Levine)
Bad-ass!
Me too!
October 8th 7:51am? Dang I had Oct 15 11:34pm - so who won?
Wait until they start spraying Houston with pepper and dust...lol
Oh my, here we go ...
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/?lead=frisco-patient-exhibiting-ebola-symptoms
Dallas panics in 3,2,1.....
Well. The fact that he died is pretty tragic. Apparently he was infected by helping a pregnant woman to the hospital. It's sad that an act of kindness would be rewarded with such brutality.
Unfortunately this is a virus. It doesn't care for matters of ethics or human kindness. It doesn't care for religious persuasion and it doesn't care for your ethical code. This thing will kill you by eating away at the cellular lining of you blood vessels, causing you to leak fluid internally. Lots of survivors can, and will, be complete vegetables because they have suffered strokes.
It is a terrifying disease. I have been saying for a long time this is a Black Swan. Most people on ZH are intelligent, or paranoid enough (or both) to know just how stupid humans can be in handling crises. Watch this space because I think we are about to see a pandemic of unimaginable proportions. It probably will not affect people in the US as much as other parts of the world, but Europe (where I live), Asia, and other places with high population densities are literally ticking timebombs. Especially the cities.