Official Ebola update thread

[Anonymous]

A second nurse in Dallas is infected. She treated Duncan while he was in isolation.

So glad Ebola is not very contagious at all!

[Anonymous]

The problem with Dallas is they were not prepared. Just like the Liberians weren't prepared, and continue to perpetuate their ill-equipped medical infrastructure.

If I were a nurse and heard a guy with a Liberian accent (I have been there so I'm familiar with what it sounds like), I would have tried to escalate his initial care to include a blood test to determine if he did have Ebola.

In the interest of global health, it should be perfectly fine to discriminate in cases like these--not to refuse care, but to take extra precaution and not take the patient at his word when he lies about his travel history and contact with dying Ebola victims.

[Anonymous]

The second nurse was on a flight back to Dallas the night before she reported symptoms
CDC is now trying to track down all passengers on that flight.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-outbreak/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The second nurse was on a flight back to Dallas the night before she reported symptoms
CDC is now trying to track down all passengers on that flight.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-outbreak/index.html

Why?!?!? CDC says there is NO danger from sharing a plane with an Ebola infected person.

IT IS NOT VERY CONTAGIOUS! Sheesh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The second nurse was on a flight back to Dallas the night before she reported symptoms
CDC is now trying to track down all passengers on that flight.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-outbreak/index.html

Why?!?!? CDC says there is NO danger from sharing a plane with an Ebola infected person.

IT IS NOT VERY CONTAGIOUS! Sheesh.

Exactly! Maybe people will finally wake up.

[Anonymous]

Face it. This is out there now. There but for the grace of God

[Anonymous]

As someone else wrote, whack a mole isn't going to solve this.

[Anonymous]

I admit to a tad more concern today than yesterday given the second nurse and her plane ride. Still seems like we can stop this before it becomes a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I admit to a tad more concern today than yesterday given the second nurse and her plane ride. Still seems like we can stop this before it becomes a pandemic.

Without closing borders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I admit to a tad more concern today than yesterday given the second nurse and her plane ride. Still seems like we can stop this before it becomes a pandemic.

Without closing borders?

Must be done. Won't be done

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I admit to a tad more concern today than yesterday given the second nurse and her plane ride. Still seems like we can stop this before it becomes a pandemic.

Me too. Wasn't paying much attention and was more worried about the respiratory virus going around. Not anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The second nurse was on a flight back to Dallas the night before she reported symptoms
CDC is now trying to track down all passengers on that flight.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-outbreak/index.html

Why?!?!? CDC says there is NO danger from sharing a plane with an Ebola infected person.

IT IS NOT VERY CONTAGIOUS! Sheesh.

THIS

[Anonymous]

I think the fact that only nurses who treated Duncan while he was very ill, and not the daughter who helped get him to the hospital, are the ones that have contracted Ebola is very telling that the disease is not contagious until the disease is underway.

Hopefully the disease in the US stops with these two nurses. I'm optimistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the fact that only nurses who treated Duncan while he was very ill, and not the daughter who helped get him to the hospital, are the ones that have contracted Ebola is very telling that the disease is not contagious until the disease is underway.

Hopefully the disease in the US stops with these two nurses. I'm optimistic.

We don't know if they are sick yet. Any of them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the fact that only nurses who treated Duncan while he was very ill, and not the daughter who helped get him to the hospital, are the ones that have contracted Ebola is very telling that the disease is not contagious until the disease is underway.

Hopefully the disease in the US stops with these two nurses. I'm optimistic.

We don't know if they are sick yet. Any of them

Assuming no news is good news...