First case of Ebola in the US

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They are not sure how she became infected.
The priest, Manuel García Viejo, died three days after being flown back to Spain, and the nurse entered his room only twice, including once after his death, according to Antonio Alemany, a health official from the regional government of Madrid.
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*Situated close to the highway that circles the Spanish capital, the Carlos III hospital is tied to the much larger La Paz hospital in Madrid, but it was selected because it has long specialized in researching H.I.V. and other infectious as well as tropical diseases. **In August, an entire floor of the hospital was sealed off and turned into an isolation unit, ***initially to treat Miguel Pajares, another Spanish priest who had been working in Africa and was the first European to be repatriated after being infected with Ebola.
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nytimes.com/2014/10/07/world/europe/spain-reports-first-case-of-ebola-contracted-outside-west-africa.html?_r=0

She was on vacation when she came down with a fever, but authorities won’t say where she went. I hope they release that information soon as the people have a right to know.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Wow. This is scary. On vacation. Hope we get more details.
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I’m tryin to dig through all the information. It’s possible her vacation was simply days off work and she did not leave the country or city, however, we still don’t know. What I am gathering is that her fever started as low grade and she had it for about a week before checking into the hospital yesterday. I don’t want to even imagine how many people she would have been in contact with in the span of a week.

You would wonder how someone who had just been in contact with an Ebola patient could ignore a fever for so long, but perhaps she had been told her chances of contracting were very slim due to the precautions and the nonsense idea that this isn’t airborne. :mad:
 
jen_fla said:
I’m tryin to dig through all the information. It’s possible her vacation was simply days off work and she did not leave the country or city, however, we still don’t know. What I am gathering is that her fever started as low grade and she had it for about a week before checking into the hospital yesterday. I don’t want to even imagine how many people she would have been in contact with in the span of a week.

You would wonder how someone who had just been in contact with an Ebola patient could ignore a fever for so long, but perhaps she had been told her chances of contracting were very slim due to the precautions and the nonsense idea that this isn’t airborne. :mad:
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Maybe she was in denial and didn’t want to think the unimaginable had happened. It doesn’t sound like she had a lot of contact with him while he was in the hospital.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Maybe she was in denial and didn’t want to think the unimaginable had happened. It doesn’t sound like she had a lot of contact with him while he was in the hospital.
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I feel horrible for what she and her husband are going through. It’s easy for me to be angry at letting the fever go for so long, but at the same time I stand in awe at how selfless she was to work with Ebola in the first place.

I am though getting fed up with hearing the whole “difficult to contract” blather.

This study shows there are people who can become infected and remain asymptomatic. I don’t know about contagion. Are there any scientists online that could share their insight? Tiger Kitty?
NTERPRETATION:
This study showed that asymptomatic, replicative Ebola infection can and does occur in human beings. The lack of genetic differences between symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals suggest that asymptomatic Ebola infection did not result from viral mutations.
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10881895
 
jen_fla said:
I feel horrible for what she and her husband are going through. It’s easy for me to be angry at letting the fever go for so long, but at the same time I stand in awe at how selfless she was to work with Ebola in the first place.

I am though getting fed up with hearing the whole “difficult to contract” blather.

This study shows there are people who can become infected and remain asymptomatic. I don’t know about contagion. Are there any scientists online that could share their insight? Tiger Kitty?

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10881895
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The caretakers are so courageous who are caring for these patients. Especially in africa where the conditions are so terrible.
They have already lost dedicated doctors and nurses. I pray they can find a cure to honor the memory of all those who have died.
 
From Obama on Monday…
However, this system is not foolproof, as is evidenced by Duncan’s diagnosis in the U.S. It relies upon a person filling out a questionnaire honestly and correctly, even though they may not know they had contact with a person with Ebola. A person who has contracted the disease but has not become symptomatic would not have a fever or any visible signs of illness, which means the thermometer and visual check would not help.
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Duncan had his temperature taken by a person trained by the CDC using a thermometer approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Frieden said last week. He had no fever and did not display any symptoms until four or five days later.
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Many staff members were uneasy about the decision to open an Ebola ward, and they complained to Jerry Brown, the Liberian director of the hospital. Brown, 44, is a man who exudes calm amid chaos, a virtue that would prove critical in the months to come.
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“We are just preparing for the future, just in case,” he told his workers.
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The only available space was a yellow cinderblock tin-roofed chapel in the hospital’s courtyard, where the staff gathered each morning for devotions. Now they rolled in six beds and separated them with plastic tarps. They cleaned the floors and walls. They placed a sign out front that read, “Isolation unit. Authorized personnel only.”
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And then they waited.
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No Ebola patients arrived. The pace of infections in Guinea slowed significantly, and in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the number of new cases dropped to zero for most of April and May.
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Some hospitals dismantled their isolation units. ELWA kept its as a precaution. “We thought we were in the clear,”
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Ebola patients trickled into the hospital one at a time
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Sound familiar? The continued spending cuts didn’t help…
The CDC saw its discretionary funding cut by $585 million from 2010 to 2014, while the NIH’s budget was slashed by $446 million over the last four years.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, spelled out the impact of the cuts in dire terms during a recent hearing on Capitol Hill.
“I have to tell you honestly it’s been a significant impact on us,” Fauci said. “It has both in an acute and a chronic, insidious way eroded our ability to respond in the way that I and my colleagues would like to see us be able to respond to these emerging threats. And in my institute particularly, that’s responsible for responding on the dime to an emerging infectious disease threat, this is particularly damaging.”
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The CDC also cited the budget cuts in a report earlier this year, saying that annual funding for its public health preparedness and response efforts were $1 billion lower in the 2013 fiscal year than in 2002.
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pnewton said:
So do we now ban flights from West Africa, Conteniental Europe and the U.S.?
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No need to ban any flights, methinks. A quarantine period of at least a week or so (before and after travel) might be practical though - ***if ***it excludes essential personnel. The cost of keeping people in quarantine must surely be less than dealing with outbreaks?
 
pnewton said:
So do we now ban flights from West Africa, Conteniental Europe and the U.S.?
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Why jump to a conclusion that flights are the ONLY way it will arrive by the numbers in our country? Don’t you think it can arrive much easier crossing our southern border to an extremely large 3rd world avenue? How about putting some stop action on whatever way it can be spread.

It would be very helpful if this administration would stop trying to save their political goals and actually try to protect our country. Quit shoving down our throats that other parts of the world are backward and do not have toilet paper. Have we not come to aid other countries when tragedy strikes? I think we try very hard to help. How many of our military have been sent to Africa with a variety of skills to help them gain some progress in defeating this scourge.

We seem to have someone in the driver’s seat that has never ridden a bike!
 
grotto said:
Why jump to a conclusion that flights are the ONLY way it will arrive by the numbers in our country?
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We have no borders with West Africa or Spain. I guess if you are posting from Mexico or Canada and are speaking about protecting from Americans crossing the border with Ebola, you might have a point.
 
Exiled_Child said:
There’s a suspected case in Houston:

mysanantonio.com/news/houston-texas/article/Reports-Houston-area-patient-monitored-for-Ebola-5805551.php
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“North Cypress Medical Center is treating a patient who has not been diagnosed with Ebola. He is considered to be of extremely low risk to the Ebola virus. Hospital personnel are taking all precautions as prescribed by the Harris County Health Department and the U.S. Center for Disease Control. The patient is in stable condition and is showing no signs of a fever.”

🤷

I understand the Hawaii case was a false alarm. So far the number of Ebola cases remain at one.

Who here thinks the media is downplaying Ebola and who thinks the media is hyping it up? If so, do you think the media normal downplays or hypes up news? 😉
 
They are going to euthanize the dog belonging to the Nurse from Madrid.

foxnews.com/health/2014/10/07/spain-places-husband-ebola-nurse-in-quarantine/

MADRID – Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa’s Ebola outbreak got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant became infected. Determined to contain the spread of the deadly virus, they even announced plans to euthanize the woman’s pet dog.
 
jen_fla said:
They are going to euthanize the dog belonging to the Nurse from Madrid.

foxnews.com/health/2014/10/07/spain-places-husband-ebola-nurse-in-quarantine/

MADRID – Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa’s Ebola outbreak got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant became infected. Determined to contain the spread of the deadly virus, they even announced plans to euthanize the woman’s pet dog.
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Yeah, I saw that, but it didn’t make sense to me. Is this because of the dogs in Liberia that dug up and ate the bodies of ebola victims? It reminds me of the Chinese response to avian flu. They ordered that every last chicken in the entire country be killed, and they actually did it!
 
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