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Second Texas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
And then there were three.
As the Texas Department of State Health reported an hour ago, just three days after the shocking announcement that the late Thomas Eric Duncan had managed to infect one nurse in the first person-to-person transmission of Ebola on US ground, a second Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worker has been infected with the deadly virus.
From the official statement:
Second Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
News Release
Oct. 15, 2014
A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has tested positive for the disease.
The health care worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the hospital.
Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored. The type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus.
The worker was among those who took care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was diagnosed with Ebola.
The preliminary Ebola test was run late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin, and results were received at about midnight.
Confirmatory testing on a separate specimen will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects such as needles. People are not contagious before symptoms such as fever develop.
Surely the CDC's Tom Frieden will say this is perfectly expected: after all the CDC, which promised it would "stop Ebola in its tracks in the US" just two weeks ago, changed its tune and said to expect more cases.
As of this moment, equity futures are not happy, and certainly not transports, which after a seesaw session in which airline stocks rebounded following a deep oversold condition, are about to become even more oversold as the US public responds to increasingly unpleasant Ebola pandemic news by deciding to "just stay home this weekend."
And now we await the CDC to explain how this is all due to another breach in protocol for a disease which still is clearly not airborne.
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The faster Frieden, aka Tariq D-ziz, said Ebola was contained and was not readily transmissible, the faster I was stocking food, weapons, and ammo. 4 (beyond patient zero) cases is Dallas, and we're locking down our perimeter. I still need a long-range rifle and a larger fuel supply, but we're in OK shape in the event we needed to fend for ourselves for 6 months.
Six months?? LOL
Let me know when you become POZ, so I can "LOL".
Lots more Africans from the infected areas stiff walking off the plane into DFW airport ....
Where the Governor "Pointy Boots" Perry? I suspect his lame response to all this means he's out of the prez race.
This one isn't on Perry, but PREEZY. Perry doesnt run the international travel quarantine program.
Perry should grow a pair and start raising hell. It would be a first, a governor actually excersising his fiduciary duty.
These revelations should do wonders for the relection of members of the party of the Crown Prince Obama of Kenya.
Use of FEMA centers for Ebola containment?
Already discussions in the news about centers specifically setup for diseases like Ebola this morning.
Once your infected your immediately transported to one of these centers.
Anyone attempting to get me or my family into a FEMA/UN-run Ebola deathcamp better eat their Wheaties. . .
All kidding aside, if you are put into the camp, you’re dead.
Carry your .357 with you at all times is better than crying And have a collapsible AR-15 or .308 in your I-pad mini bag.
Consider steel-core rounds for your AR. Better for the environment than lead, and more penetrative vs zombies wearing body armor.
12 Ga. Slugs are nice too. A pumpkin ball inside 50 yards or so will wreck your wagon, I don't care what you are wearing.
"We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks."
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-wor...
So, we have a travel ban on flights in from the African nations where ebola is widespread, correct? No? Gee, why not for fucks sake?
As this disease exponentially progresses, restaurants, bars, sporting events, nightclubs, schools, day cares all close due to a high probability of infection.
Not exactly a Keynsian bull.......
The CDC is derelict in duty in allowing this Texas hospital to be at risk. They very well know, as according to their CDC website, that only 4 hospitals are prepared to safely handle Ebola patients:http://www.gramsgold.com/news/only-these-4-hospitals-are-truly-equipped-...
Incompetent, Irresponsibility, and we KNOW we can't believe what the CDC says. Freiden is a leftist propagandist.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/all/modules/blockquote/images/menu-leaf.g...); background-position: 100% 100%;">Martial law will be declared in the US and the whole country will be turned into a giant Gulag system.
Uh, oh.. Hitler is pissed about this Ebola shit..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K8u4OZvS-oo
These fuckers better get their shit together and protect our NURSES.
Nurses are generally wonderful people who deserve better than a government health agency that sends them in to die like cannon-fodder.
Then send them to Africa.
Negative. The best Ebola response is SEVERE localization, the polar opposite of the globalization trend we've witnessed over the past 40 years.
Let Africa follow their natural path of evolution into the history books. If nurses/doctors want to go to Africa and help them, air drop the nurses and doctors. One-way.
"Don't be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those chains are made of chrome steel."
- King Kong (1933)
I believe this General just confirmed what this guy from Border Patrol was spouting last month!...
I don't know how Secret Chimps going to put a lid on it at this point?...
Gettin kinda interesting folks!
Right on, Nemo. The date of the board patrol article is pretty interesting.
On the basis that the most ****ed up explanation is the most likely I wouldn't be surprised if one part of the TPTB set it off to scare people into accepting some new TSA-like intrusion on the assumption that the medical response in the US would be sensible enough to prevent a major plague inside the US not realising that PC made a sensible response to Ebola almost impossible.
If correct then we should see the people currently in charge of this getting replaced asap by dudes in dark glasses a short time after it's too late.
Agreed, this is a real possibility. The 1%ers are increasingly disconnected (in a pathologically antisocial way) from the realities facing the 99%. Very bad strategy, in my view, b/c it eliminates a large proportion of the downsides associated with resistance. If there is a high-probability of death from Ebola via getting herded to a FEMA/UN quarantine camp, you get . . . more aggressive when any .govers roll up on you. Any why use remaining scarce resources to do things like pay Federal taxes?!? Widespread Ebola WILL result in a breakdown of the .gov machine. They can (and probably will) have their Krystallnacht(s) first, but for those who keep their powder dry and their cheeks squeezed firmly together, there is likely a path to much less .gov tyranny. Best chances for survival is to duck under the .gov wave of tyranny. DONT GO TO THE CAMP, DONT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS, and STOCKPILE ESSENTIAL RESOURCES.
I'm waiting for the illegal alien chicken packer who's too broke to call in sick for two days collapses shitting blood on the factory floor.
Then the real fun begins.
I am now finding it hard to believe that the CDC and other decision makers could not have invisioned what is happening right now, and thus acted with malicious intent. Either that or they are completely incompetent. Take your' pick, they should to go to jail.
Texas Health Department officials are asking that anyone showing signs of infection form a queue outside the Texas Book Depository and not outside the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
Could the Ebola Pandemic Be A Staged Crisis? http://newamerica-now.blogspot.com/2014/10/could-ebola-pandemic-be-stage...
And there are still paid spammers distributing talking points on how there should be no Quarantine, and no air travel restrictions with these West African countries.
Who has money to pay such trolls?
What would be the motivation for paying such trolls?
Who is promoting Plague Transmission?!!!
This ebola stuff is all just a ruse to scare those Guatemalan kids into going home.
Lulz.
They will eventually. At least they will take back something alien with them.
Fuckers.