Thread: West African Ebola Outbreak

The incubation rate for Ebola ranges from two days to 21 days. Therefore, someone can be carrying it around for up to three weeks without even knowing it.

Kids who had contact with Ebola patient monitored
Associated Press ~ 5 hrs ago

DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say five students who had contact with a man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas are being monitored but are showing no symptoms of the disease.

Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said Wednesday that the students were in school this week after possibly being in contact with the man over the weekend. But he says they're showing no symptoms and are now being monitored at home. Health officials say the disease is only spread by people with symptoms, such as diarrhea or vomiting.

As an added precaution, Miles says additional health and custodial staff will be at the five schools the students attend.

The unidentified man is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. He's been in isolation at a Dallas hospital since Sunday.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kid...id-ansnewsap11

Brad Thor nails it on why we should be worried about Team Obama’s response to Ebola

Posted at 9:25 am on October 1, 2014

Brad Thor ✔ @BradThor

If I was a cynic, I'd be pointing 2 the fact that every zombie movie starts
w/ a "don't worry, everything is under control" press conference

4:55 PM - 30 Sep 2014

He’s right about zombie movies and yesterday’s CDC briefing on Ebola was straight out of Hollywood, but should we ignore our concerns and trust the Obama administration when it says everything is under control?

Here’s your answer, via Brad Thor:

Brad Thor ✔ @BradThor

Yes, we totally handed out lab coats to bamboozle you re: #Obamacare,
but you need to believe us now re: #Ebola



2:42 AM - 1 Oct 2014

We hope the good doctors at the CDC are the kind that earned their lab coats and not the kind that had their lab coats handed to them as a public relations stunt.

Or this?

Brad Thor ✔ @BradThor

If you like your Dr. you can keep your Dr.

& there's only one case of #Ebola inside the United States
& we totally have it under control...

2:49 AM - 1 Oct 2014

Good question. Does Obamacare cover Ebola?

And don’t forget the same people who missed the ISIS threat are in charge of our borders:

Brad Thor ✔ @BradThor

We didn't see #ISIS coming,
but we totally saw Muslim terrorists using #Ebola as a bio-weapon
and have sealed our borders up super-tight!

2:38 AM - 1 Oct 2014

http://twitchy.com/2014/10/01/brad-t...onse-to-ebola/

As Ebola Patient’s ‘Potential Contacts’ Leaps to 100, Obama Refuses to Restrict Travel from Ebola ‘Hot Zones’
By Brian Hayes on October 2, 2014

The circle of people who have come into contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan is rapidly expanding, jumping from 18 to 80 early today and has now leaped to 100, according to Texas health officials. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-e...ry?id=25912405

That number includes at least 5 children, among 18 currently under observation for symptoms.

Those children themselves may have exposed other students at 4 different Dallas-area middle schools.

This expanding mess is a result of a Texas hospital allowed Duncan – dubbed ‘Patient Zero’ – to leave the hospital with antibiotics, despite his informing them that he had just arrived on a flight from Liberia, one of the Ebola ‘hot zones’ where the outbreak is rampant. As a result, Duncan was exposed to dozens of individual for two days in the Dallas-Ft. Worth region.

And this morning a new alert has been revealed – that a 2nd patient in Hawaii is demonstrating “Ebola-like symptoms.” That patient is being held “in isolation,” according to ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-e...ry?id=25912405

So with the threat of Ebola spreading out of control, you might assume the U.S. government would clamp down on importing more potential infected persons from the Ebola hot zone. You would be wrong.

The “open borders”-obsessed Obama Administration has refused to enact any travel restrictions from Ebola-stricken nations.

White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said there would be no restrictions on flights or visa from people traveling from Ebola-zones. Earnest the chances of an epidemic in the U.S. are “incredibly low.” Earnest said that the screening done at African airports was “sufficient” to protect 310 million Americans from Ebola. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ite-House.html

Seriously? Is Earnest aware of just how little screening is done there? This Tweeter let’s us know how Duncan himself was “screened”:

Nice Deb @NiceDeb

Liberian Ebola patient had his temp. taken before he got on the plane.
That's the only travel restriction for pp coming from ebola epicenter?

12:05 PM - 1 Oct 2014

Yep, that’s it. “Temperature” taken with temporal scanners to detect fever. Of course the problem with this is that people infected with Ebola will not show any fever or other symptoms for between 2 and 21 days after exposure. It is not enough to screen for fever. The only rational response is to halt travel into the U.S. from these regions.

But the White House insists there’s nothing to worry about. You know, just like President Obama said that that the possibility someone with Ebola would reach U.S. shores was “unlikely.”

And yet it happened.

Pure insanity. How many Americans have to die for us to finally restrict our border and ports?

http://toprightnews.com/?p=6257

Dallas Ebola Patient VOMITED WILDLY Outside Apartment On Way to Hospital
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 9:31 PM

The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. was identified Wednesday as Thomas Eric Duncan.

Thomas Eric Duncan, identified by a former employer and seen in this undated Facebook photo, is the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United States. (ABC) http://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-e...ry?id=25885934

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital sent Duncan home on September 26 despite telling a nurese he had traveled to the United States from Ebola-ravaged West Africa. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014...ters-hospital/

Thomas Duncan was vomiting wildly outside of this apartment on the way to the hospital.


Yahoo reported: http://news.yahoo.com/traveler-liber...--finance.html

Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.

“His whole family was screaming. He got outside and he was throwing up all over the place,” resident Mesud Osmanovic, 21, said on Wednesday, describing the chaotic scene before the man was admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday where he is in serious condition.

The hospital cited the man’s privacy as the reason for not identifying him. However, Gee Melish, who said he was a family friend, identified the man in Texas infected with Ebola as Thomas Eric Duncan.

Duncan’s sister Mai Wureh told the Associated Press it was her brother who is at the center of the country’s latest Ebola scare. http://time.com/3453271/ebola-patien...s-eric-duncan/

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014...his-apartment/





http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014...his-apartment/

Originally Posted by boopster

this one more screening...in liberia he was asked if he had been in contact with anyone with ebola and he said no. heck of a screening but then again when O told americans they could keep their own doctors he lied so as hillary would say when asked about the 2 lies....what difference does it make this government does not have our best interests at heart

Liberia says Dallas Ebola patient lied on exit documents
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ning/16591753/

Liberian official says U.S. Ebloa patient lied on airport questionnaire



Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 4:32pm

(CNN) — Days before he became the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil, Thomas Eric Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for a patient with the deadly virus. Before leaving Liberia, Duncan also answered no to a question about whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease, said Binyah Kesselly, board chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority.

Witnesses say Duncan had been helping Ebola patients in Liberia. Liberian community leader Tugbeh Chieh Tugbeh said Duncan was caring for an Ebola-infected patient at a residence in Paynesville City, just outside Monrovia.

Earlier Thursday, Kesselly told CNN that the authority "will seek to prosecute" if Duncan lied on his health screening questionnaire before leaving West Africa.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Canadian public broadcaster CBC on Thursday that she would consult with lawyers to decide what to do with Duncan when he returns home. "The fact that he knew (he was exposed to the virus) and he left the country is unpardonable, quite frankly," Sirleaf told CBC. "I just hope that nobody else gets infected."

"With the U.S. doing so much to help us fight Ebola, and again one of our compatriots didn't take due care, and so, he's gone there and ... put some Americans in a state of fear, and put them at some risk, and so I feel very saddened by that and very angry with him, to tell you the truth."

Wilfred Smallwood, who says he's a half-brother of Duncan, said Thursday that he doesn't believe Duncan knew he had Ebola when he left Liberia for the United States. But he said it isn't out of the ordinary to come to the assistance of suffering people. Asked about Duncan's contact with Ebola patients, he said, "(it's) what we do in Liberia -- our tradition is to help somebody who needs help."

Screened several times before leaving Liberia

The health questionnaire typically contains questions about the passenger's recent contact with Ebola patients. Passengers also are asked whether they've experienced any symptoms consistent with Ebola, such as vomiting, diarrhea or joint pain, in the past couple of days.

Duncan was screened three times before he boarded his flight in Liberia to Brussels, Kesselly said. "The first screening was at the gate, before you get to the parking lot. The second time is before you enter the terminal building and the third is before you board the flight. At every point your temperature is scanned."

His temperature at those checkpoints was a consistent 97.3 degrees Fahrenheit, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Thomas Frieden told reporters Thursday. "Basically, he didn't have a fever," Frieden said, noting that the Ebola patient's temperature was taken by a trained CDC health care worker with a thermometer approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Kesselly said airport authority would seek to prosecute Duncan "if it is determined that he made a false declaration during the health screening questionnaire."

"We cannot make the (Ebola) risk zero until the outbreak is controlled in West Africa," said Frieden. He went on to say that isolating West African countries completely through travel restrictions would make it more difficult to assist in controlling the outbreak, and would eventually put the United States at greater risk.

Family of Duncan quarantined

Duncan is in serious condition at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. So far, no one who had contact with Duncan has shown any indication of having contracted Ebola, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins told reporters Thursday. Smallwood said that when Duncan first visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, neither Duncan nor the hospital knew then that he had Ebola.

This was Duncan's first time in the United States, Smallwood said. Smallwood left Liberia nine years ago to move to the United States, where many relatives live. Duncan, a resident of Liberia, was visiting his son and his son's mother in Dallas, Smallwood said. The partner of Duncan has been quarantined in her Dallas apartment where Duncan became sick with the virus, the woman told CNN's Anderson Cooper. The woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Louise, is quarantined with one of her children who is younger than 13 and two nephews in their 20s. The four of them were in the apartment when Duncan became ill, Cooper said.

Louise and her family are in isolation with sheets and towels used by the Ebola-stricken Duncan, Cooper said. Louise did use bleach to clean her apartment, "but it's not clear to me how systematic the cleaning was," he said.

Up to 100 people being contacted

Health officials are reaching out to as many as 100 people who may have had contact with Duncan, a spokeswoman with the Texas Department of State Health Services said Thursday. These are people who are still being questioned because they may have crossed paths with the patient either at the hospital, at his apartment complex or in the community. "Out of an abundance of caution, we're starting with this very wide net, including people who have had even brief encounters with the patient or the patient's home," spokeswoman Carrie Williams said. "The number will drop as we focus in on those whose contact may represent a potential risk of infection."

The number of direct contacts who have been identified and are being monitored right now is "more than 12," a federal official told CNN on Thursday. "By the end of the day, we should have a pretty good idea of how many contacts there are," the official said.

Being "monitored" means a public health worker visits twice a day to take the contact's temperature and ask them if they are experiencing any symptoms. None of the people being monitored has so far shown symptoms. Most are not being quarantined, though Dallas County health officials have ordered four close relatives of the patient to stay home and not have any visitors until at least October 19. "The family was having some challenges following the directions to stay home, so we're taking every precaution," Texas Department of Health spokeswoman Carrie Williams said about why the state had issued a legal order.

Two things are still spreading in Dallas: fear and frustration. Some parents are scared to take their kids to the schools that his girlfriend's children attended. Attendance at those schools Thursday was down to about 86% on Thursday, said Mike Miles, superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District. Custodians are stepping up cleanup work at the schools, he said. "We don't think there's any virus at any of those buildings, but we'll take that off the table, so we're doing extra cleaning and disinfecting," Miles said.

Others are upset at the hospital where Duncan first sought care, which sent him home and raised the possibility he could infect others for at least two additional days.

'They dropped the ball'

On September 24, four days after he arrived in Dallas from Liberia, Duncan started feeling symptoms. That day is significant because that's when he started being contagious. Late the following night, he went to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas with a low-grade fever and abdominal pain, the hospital said.

Duncan told a nurse he had been in Africa. But "regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team," said Dr. Mark Lester, executive vice president of Texas Health Resources. Duncan was sent home with painkillers and antibiotics, only to return in worse condition on September 28. That's when he was isolated.

"It was a mistake. They dropped the ball," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said of the miscommunication at the hospital. "You don't want to pile on them, but hopefully this will never happen again. ... The CDC has been vigorously emphasizing the need for a travel history."

Gupta said this mishap doesn't make sense. "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," he said. "There's no excuse for this."

And one of Duncan's friends said he was the one who contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with concerns that the hospital wasn't moving quickly enough after Duncan's second hospital visit. But the hospital said the patient's condition "did not warrant admission" last week.

'It gets bad -- fast'

Because the early symptoms of Ebola can include abdominal pain, fever and vomiting -- ailments that also come with other illnesses -- there are concerns about how to distinguish between Ebola and, say, the flu. But the answer is fairly simple.

"Ebola tends to progress much more quickly," said Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent. "It gets bad -- fast."

And once it gets bad, Ebola can bring on a host of ghastly symptoms, including diarrhea and unexplained bruising and bleeding. But Ebola is much harder to contract than the flu. The virus can be spread only through the bodily fluids of people who have active symptoms of the illness.

http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/liberian-official-says-us

Duncan was screened three times before he boarded his flight in Liberia to Brussels, Kesselly said. "The first screening was at the gate, before you get to the parking lot. The second time is before you enter the terminal building and the third is before you board the flight. At every point your temperature is scanned."

His temperature at those checkpoints was a consistent 97.3 degrees Fahrenheit, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Thomas Frieden told reporters Thursday. "Basically, he didn't have a fever," Frieden said, noting that the Ebola patient's temperature was taken by a trained CDC health care worker with a thermometer approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

The incubation rate for Ebola ranges from two days to 21 days. Therefore, someone can be carrying it around for up to three weeks without even knowing it. OR SHOWING SYMPTOMS.

News chopper caught Ebola clean-up crew;
Um.
Notice anything ... missing?
(It’s enraging)

Posted at 6:06 pm on October 2, 2014

Whoa. Take a look at this photo reportedly taken by a news chopper.

UM, CALL ME CRAZY, BUT cleaning up Ebola vomit with a pressure washer seems like a lousy idea...

They are almost making it an aerosol with the high pressure water! Any bleach?

Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter

--> RT @CDCgov: .@Scott___R #Ebola in body fluids can survive up to several days at room temperature. #CDCchat

3:43 PM - 2 Oct 2014

RB @RBPundit

Oh, there's a 1 in a million chance that the puke on that sidewalk had Ebola? In that case... HAZ MAT SUITS.

2:57 PM - 2 Oct 2014

http://twitchy.com/2014/10/02/news-c...nraging-photo/

American cameraman in Liberia tests positive for Ebola

Rodney Harris Posted: 10/02/2014 10:21 PM

ATLANTA (CBS46) - An American cameraman, 33, who works for NBC News has tested positive for the Ebola virus, according to the network.

The network said that the freelance cameraman was hired on Tuesday in Liberia, and had symptoms on Wednesday.

He was tested for the virus Thursday morning, the results of which came back positive, according to the network.


The network said that he will be flown back to the U.S. for treatment. His name was not released.

The cameraman is the fifth American to catch Ebola.

Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol were flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in early August. Both Brantly and Writebol recovered and were eventually released.

In September, Rick Sacra was flown from Africa to Nebraska with the virus. He also recovered and was eventually released.

Also in September, a unidentified American was flown to Atlanta from Africa with the virus.

http://m.wafb.com/wafb/pm_/contentde...=od%3Azt2nft43

October 3, 2014, 12:05 PM
Patient hospitalized in D.C. with possible Ebola symptoms

A person with possible Ebola symptoms has been hospitalized in Washington, D.C. out of "an abundance of caution," the hospital confirmed in a statement.

The patient, who traveled to the U.S. from Nigeria, is hospitalized at Howard University Hospital in Washington, according to CBS radio's WNEW. http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/...bola-symptoms/


"We can confirm that a patient has been admitted to Howard University Hospital in stable condition, following travel to Nigeria and presenting with symptoms that could be associated with Ebola," hospital spokesperson Kerry-Ann Hamilton said in a statement Friday.

"In an abundance of caution, we have activated the appropriate infection control protocols, including isolating the patient. Our medical team continues to evaluate and monitor progress in close collaboration with the CDC and the Department of Health.

"For privacy reasons, we cannot share additional details about the case. We will continue to provide key updates as the situation warrants."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-ou...bola-symptoms/