Ebola in America

wollclark said:
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Two weeks is pushing the outer envelope for the incubation period. She probably just picked up a flu or cold bug from a class mate when she got back home. Isolation and testing is however a suitable precaution given the recent travel.


BTW, I typically avoid reading foxnews. They tend to be more alarmist than fact full.
 
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It really depends on what you are looking for. Looking for factual information arms you to respect the disease instead of fearing it. But if all you look for is scare stories (re: fox news) it won't help.
 
Duncan is still in critical condition today.

If he dies, will his be the first death by Ebola in America?

So far as transmission goes, Duncan was pretty much immersed in exposure. Much more so than anybody he came in contact with here. I put a low likely hood on more cases from him.
 
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Are you purposely looking for articles on this so as to fuel your anxiety ? If you want to stop worrying about this, stop looking for stuff about Ebola.
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Perhaps you can get yourself to ignore it. But I can't. :(

http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...r-treating-repatriated-patient-madrid-brendan

A Spanish nurse tested positive for Ebola after treating an infected Spanish missionary in a Madrid hospital, in what appears to be the first case of the virus contracted outside of west Africa.

The Guardian reports that the woman tended to elderly missionary Manuel García Viejo after he was returned from Sierra Leone to Madrid for treatment on September 21. The care was ultimately unsuccessful, and Viejo died of Ebola four days after arriving at Carlos III hospital. Another missionary also succumbed to the virus at the same hospital back in August.
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http://www.wdel.com/story.php?id=63172

Although no lab test was done, the state Division of Public Health says a child from Liberia treated for possible Ebola at Kent General Hospital doesn't have the virus.

D-P-H director doctor Karyl Rattay says the child wasn't tested for Ebola due to advice from the Feds.

"Because she did not meet what we call the 'case definition' for Ebola virus, the laboratory test was not done, and that was the CDC's strong guidance."
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wollclark said:
Perhaps you can get yourself to ignore it. But I can't. :(
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Oh, please. If there was a stream of data just pouring into your brain, I could understand, but YOU are the one who is going looking for news on this thing. As I said: STOP LOOKING for this stuff, and you won't find it.

At this point it seems obvious to me that your anxiety is not something that actually bothers you, but something you live off of. I've seen it happen before: people who go out of their way to maintain that level of anxiety. You want to go on like this ? Have you consulted as we told you to ? Of course you haven't. Fine, keep at it.
 
Dan O. said:
Two weeks is pushing the outer envelope for the incubation period. She probably just picked up a flu or cold bug from a class mate when she got back home. Isolation and testing is however a suitable precaution given the recent travel.


BTW, I typically avoid reading foxnews. They tend to be more alarmist than fact full.
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Agreed about Fox News, but as far as the Ebola outbreak goes, CNN is no better. They are aslo exploiting the fear factor for ratings....
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rities-admit-DON-T-KNOW-contracted-virus.html

It's also since emerged that a week before she tested positive for Ebola she had contacted health workers to complain of a fever and fatigue, telling them she had helped treat two priests who contracted Ebola in Africa and were repatriated to Spain.

But it wasn't until she went to her local hospital on Monday that she was finally admitted and tested for the virus.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ebola/article20959474/

The nurse went on holiday immediately after the second of the missionaries she had been caring for died on Sept. 25. Spanish officials said she began feeling ill on Sept. 30 and was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, but they have not yet said where she went on holiday.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/ebola-crisis-substandard-equipment-nurse-positive-spain

Staff at the hospital said waste from the rooms of both patients was carried out in the same elevator used by all personnel and, in the case of the second patient, the hospital was not evacuated... ...While staff at the Alcorcón hospital were waiting for the test results, the nurse remained in a bed in the emergency room, separated only by curtains from the other patients, hospital staff told El Mundo. Their version of events clashes with health authorities, who said that the patient was isolated from the first moment.
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This just keeps getting worse. :boxedin: :(
 
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What makes you think I 'want' to panic? This is a disease uncommon to the west, that is used to warm climate. It is in the west now, at the beginning of flu season. People are messing up the containment of it left and right. I mean, going on vacation after treating ebola patients? What kind of action is that? Doctor's not listening to someone who says they have a fever after working with ebola? It's insane.
 
wollclark said:
What makes you think I 'want' to panic?
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Because you go out of your way to hunt down stories about this thing. If you had any sense you'd stay away from Ebola news to avoid your anxiety problems, but instead you seek it out. The sensible conclusion is that you are somehow addicted to this state of mind.
 
By having followed this thread, wollclark should know more about Ebola than the typical sensationalist news reporter. Instead of just reprinting the scare stories he should take the time to analize and critique them. What does the reporter get right, where is the reporter off base and spreading misinformation and where does the reporter leave out critical information necessary to evaluate the situation. He can post his analysis here for feedback before contacting the authors directly to help them correct their articles.
 
Something for the Chicken Littles to consider-

What is the transmission rate in the First World countries? If you are not a health care worker, it is practically ZERO. And the death rate among those is also low.

Meantime, more people have died of Grizzly Bear attacks.
 
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casebro said:
Something for the Chicken Littles to consider-

What is the transmission rate in the First World countries? If you are not a health care worker, it is practically ZERO. And the death rate among those is also low.

Meantime, more people have died of Grizzly Bear attacks.
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Yeah, well, I'll worry about them after they become invisibly small and kill a few thousand people.
 
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