Ebola Glasgow:
(CNN) – Health officials in Glasgow, Scotland, have confirmed a case of Ebola.
“The patient is a health care worker who was helping to combat the disease in West Africa” and returned from Sierra Leone late Sunday night, the Scottish health agency NHS Scotland said in a statement.
The patient flew via Casablanca, Morocco, and London Heathrow Airport, arriving at Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight around 11:30 p.m., the statement said.
“The patient was admitted to hospital early in the morning after feeling unwell and was placed into isolation at 7.50 a.m. All possible contacts with the patient are now being investigated and anyone deemed to be at risk will be contacted and closely monitored. However, having been diagnosed in the very early stages of the illness, the risk to others is considered extremely low.”
Ebola NYC:
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New York (CNN) – A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to New York from West Africa has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming the first diagnosed case in the city, authorities said late Thursday.
The doctor, identified as Craig Spencer, 33, came back from treating Ebola patients in Guinea October 17 and developed a fever, nausea, pain and fatigue Thursday. He is in isolation and being treated at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, one of the eight hospitals statewide that Gov. Andrew Cuomo designated earlier this month as part of an Ebola preparedness plan.
Spencer, who is hospitalized in intensive care, went for a jog, may have gone to a restaurant, traveled the city’s vast subway system and went bowling before feeling ill, but authorities stressed that the likelihood of him spreading the virus was low.
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Original NYC story:
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(CNN) – A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned from West Africa is at a New York hospital for isolation and testing for the Ebola virus, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN.
The 33-year-old physician, employed at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, developed a fever, nausea, pain and fatigue Wednesday night, the official said. On Thursday morning he was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for testing.
The unidentified doctor returned from West Africa about 10 days ago, the official said.
Investigators are taking the case seriously because it appears the doctor didn’t quarantine himself following his return, the official said.
The official said the doctor was out in public. Authorities are possibly going to quarantine his girlfriend, with whom he was spending time since his return from Africa.
The case came to light after the New York Fire Department received a call shortly before noon Thursday about a sick person in Manhattan. The patient was taken to Bellevue.
2nd Texas Patient was on flight from Cleveland the day before symptoms were reported.
Amber Vinson, the second Dallas health care worker who was found to have the Ebola virus, should not have boarded a commercial jet Monday, health officials say.
Spoiler
The second Dallas health care worker with Ebola was on a flight from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday – the day before she reported symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Because of the proximity in time between the Monday evening flight and the first report of her illness, the CDC wants to interview all 132 passengers on her flight – Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth, which landed at 8:16 p.m. CT Monday, the CDC said.
2nd Dallas healthcare worker infected:
Amber Vinson, the second Dallas health care worker who was found to have the Ebola virus, should not have boarded a commercial jet Monday, health officials say.
Spoiler
(CNN) – A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, health officials said Wednesday, casting further doubt on the hospital’s ability to handle Ebola and protect employees.
The worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated, health department spokeswoman Carrie Williams said.
A preliminary Ebola test was done late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin, and the results came back around midnight. A second test will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
“Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored,” the health department said.
Nurses union slams Dallas hospital:
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(CNN) – The Texas hospital where two health care workers contracted Ebola while caring for a patient had guidelines that were “constantly changing” and didn’t have protocols on how to deal with the deadly virus," a nurses’ union claims.
“The protocols that should have been in place in Dallas were not in place, and that those protocols are not in place anywhere in the United States as far as we can tell,” National Nurses United Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said Tuesday night. “We’re deeply alarmed.”
First case transmitted to Dallas healthcare worker:
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A female nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has tested positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, officials said.
Confirmatory testing will be conducted Sunday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Test results are expected to be announced later in the day.
The patient is a female nurse, an official who is familiar with this case told CNN.
She helped care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person ever diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Texas Health Resources chief clinical officer Dan Varga said. Duncan died Wednesday.
The nurse is in stable condition, Varga said.
Patient zero dies:
80 people under surveillance:
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Dallas (CNN) – [Breaking news update, posted at 8:49 a.m. ET]
Health officials are monitoring not only the people the Dallas Ebola patient had contact with while he was contagious and not isolated, but also dozens of people that they subsequently contacted, Dallas County Health and Human Services spokeswoman Erikka Neroes said Thursday.
Eighty people – the patient’s contacts, plus people with whom they had contact – are now being monitored for Ebola in the Dallas area, Neroes said. Earlier, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said the patient’s direct contacts numbered up to 20.
None has shown symptoms, and all are being given educational materials, Neroes said.
None of the 80 has been quarantined, Neroes said. However, Dallas County health officials have ordered four close relatives of the patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, to stay home and not have any visitors until at least October 19.
Patient’s ID revealed:
Original story:
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Atlanta (CNN) – A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, health officials announced Tuesday.
The unidentified man left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At that time, the individual did not have symptoms. “But four or five days later,” he began to exhibit them, Frieden said. The individual was hospitalized and isolated Sunday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
Citing privacy concerns, health officials declined to release any details about how the patient contracted the virus, what he was doing in Liberia or how he was being treated.
Symptoms of Ebola include
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[] Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F) ] Severe headache] Muscle pain ] Weakness] Diarrhea ] Vomiting] Abdominal (stomach) pain ] Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)
Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days.
Recovery from Ebola depends on the patient’s immune response. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years.
Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus. However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to 3 months. People who recover from Ebola are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms for 3 months.
Well the good thing is its currently in Texas. Cant do a lot of damage in Texas.
FFS my next door neighbours left for Texas on Sunday :wasted:
See title of the thread
Please let it not be in ATL.
Reads its in Texas
Fuck yeah…oh wait do we need Texas?
Texas here. We’re all dead.
Good time to read Stephen King’s The Stand again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4XhR0lYlE
He needs to die for the safety of everyone else.
SoVi3t
October 1, 2014, 3:28am
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reasons to move to Canada:
free health care
Pertho
October 1, 2014, 3:32am
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East Texas wrecked, El Paso best city.
Just don’t get sneezed on or come in direct/near direct contact with by a dude w/ Ebola. That’s it.
You’d be amazed at how difficult this can be.
Seen a lot of people freaking out about this and people need to calm the hell down and not give into fear mongering. News outlets love to play this type of shit up like we’re on the verge of an immediate large scale outbreak. They did the same thing with bird flu, and then Swine flu, Wes Nile virus (plus dozens of other past examples). If we were ever to be hit by a real pandemic, we’d probably all end up infected before we ever knew what hit us.
Shit you don’t want to be around when you are on your way to workhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x4gQLEQpJY
lawwwwwwwwwwwl Dr Gomez?
Check out that security guard scratching his chin, not 1 fuck given.
Wil
October 1, 2014, 4:58am
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