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Well, now we have ebola here in Texas..

 

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/09/29/dallas-presbyterian-hospital-ebola-patient-isolation/16460629/

 

DALLAS — A patient in a Dallas hospital has been confirmed to have the deadly Ebola virus, News 8 has learned.

 

That person has been held in "strict isolation" at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas as he or she was evaluated for possible exposure to the virus.

 

This is the first case of Ebola confirmed in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control will hold a news conference at 4:30 p.m. in Atlanta regarding the diagnosis.

 

The CDC will decide whether it is necessary to move the patient to another facility. There are five medical facilities in the U.S. that have high level isolation facilities. The CDC will also investigate how many people the patient has had contact with.

 

In a statement issued Monday night, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said the patient was admitted based on symptoms and "recent travel history."

 

The hospital, located at Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane in Northeast Dallas, said it's complying with all recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and the Texas Department of Health to ensure the safety of other patients and medical staff.

 

Zachary Thompson, the director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services, said Tuesday morning the Centers for Disease Control was mobilizing as if the patient had tested positive for the virus.

 

Thompson said Dallas County is ready to care for the patient.

 

"This is not Africa," Thompson said. "We have a great infrastructure to deal with an outbreak."

 

The World Health Organization said it has confirmed more than 3,000 Ebola-related deaths in West Africa during the current outbreak, which has spread to five countries: Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

 

Fort Worth physician Dr. Kent Brantly, who became infected while working in Liberia, recovered after being moved to a hospital in Atlanta.

 

Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would offer military and medical help to combat the disease in West Africa which has now reached epidemic proportions.

 

Several other U.S. hospitals have previously raised alerts in connection with patients who presented Ebola-like symptoms, but all those cases tested negative for the virus.

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Just watched the briefing by the head of The CDC.

 

Time to stop air traffic from Western Africa into the US; I'd rather we move forward in a very overly cautious manner.

 

Call me an alarmist, whatever, facts are Ebola has arrived in the US.

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The earlier cases in Atlanta were cured, so hopefully this one will also be cured.

Stopping flights from Africa isn't a bad idea, but how many travelers would just come from somewhere else, and hide where they originated?

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Totally agree. We need to be aggressive with this.

 

Agreed. For once. Shut it down now. This is no good.

"The toothless, braindead, *********, geriatric mouthbreathers around here love their "safe space". It is the only place in the world where they feel like winners, the gracious thing to do, would be to let them enjoy their delusional reality."

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Wow...this guy was a visitor FROM EbolaLand, lol. Jesus........

"The toothless, braindead, *********, geriatric mouthbreathers around here love their "safe space". It is the only place in the world where they feel like winners, the gracious thing to do, would be to let them enjoy their delusional reality."

-Numbnuts

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This CDC guy is ******* annoying. I don't trust him in the least. :squid:

"The toothless, braindead, *********, geriatric mouthbreathers around here love their "safe space". It is the only place in the world where they feel like winners, the gracious thing to do, would be to let them enjoy their delusional reality."

-Numbnuts

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Just watched the briefing by the head of The CDC.

 

Time to stop air traffic from Western Africa into the US; I'd rather we move forward in a very overly cautious manner.

 

Call me an alarmist, whatever, facts are Ebola has arrived in the US.

 

You aren't an alarmist, and have every right to be concerned.

 

It is not just West Africa to be worried about, given up to 20 days incubation period and the fact that Ebola is mutating, there is every possibility it will reach Europe via illegal immigration from North Africa across the Mediterranean.

 

A lot of African illegal immigrants are from Sierra Leone and Guinea, vector areas where Ebola cases have exploded.

Politicians and diapers should be changed often and regularly,  invariably for the same reason.

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These call in questions are retarded lol. I just heard the same question 400 times. :dismay:

"The toothless, braindead, *********, geriatric mouthbreathers around here love their "safe space". It is the only place in the world where they feel like winners, the gracious thing to do, would be to let them enjoy their delusional reality."

-Numbnuts

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This CDC guy is ******* annoying. I don't trust him in the least. :squid:
:laugh: They're dressed like they're doing a lunar landing but saying there's nothing to worry about unless you eat the guy. :kook:

 

 

Who is going to volunteer to give him a sponge bath?

Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.
-Thomas Jefferson
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
-Soren Kierkegaard

 

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Just the fact that this Liberian went to a Hospital SICK and was released for 2 more days is insane.

 

 

I NEED TO BE POTUS NOW.

 

 

GIVE

 

ME

 

THE

 

FOOTBALL

"The toothless, braindead, *********, geriatric mouthbreathers around here love their "safe space". It is the only place in the world where they feel like winners, the gracious thing to do, would be to let them enjoy their delusional reality."

-Numbnuts

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