News Hospital released Ebola patient by mistake

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-announces-100-Marines-en-route-Liberia.html

    About two dozen U.S. military specialists deploying to Liberia will test laboratory samples for Ebola, but most of the nearly 4,000 troops authorized to go are not expected to be in direct contact with the virus, defense officials said Tuesday. General David Rodriguez, head of U.S. forces in Africa, said three mobile labs had deployed to Liberia and four more were being sought to run tests that would distinguish between people infected with Ebola and those who have diseases with similar symptoms, such as malaria.

    Each lab would be staffed by a team of three to four experts trained to operate in the worst chemical, biological and nuclear environments, Rodriguez told reporters at a Pentagon briefing.The teams operate in full protective clothing. Ebola, which can cause fever, vomiting and diarrhea, spreads through contact with bodily fluids such as blood or saliva.

    The United States has 348 military personnel in Liberia and Senegal working on combating the spread of Ebola. Rodriguez has been authorized to send some 3,900 troops if needed. He said at this point he expected the effort to last a year and did not think more troops would be necessary.

    Many of the military personnel due to go to Liberia in the coming months are construction specialists who will build up to 17 100-bed Ebola treatment facilities.​
     
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  2. uscvball

    uscvball Founding Member

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    I get it, I really do. It's still a hot zone. Send more gotdam euros.
     
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  3. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    European Leaders Scramble to Upgrade Response to Ebola Crisis

    Prodded by Mr. Obama’s Sept. 16 announcement, President François Hollande of France announced two days later that he, too, was sending troops to West Africa. The French soldiers will set up a hospital in the forest region of southern Guinea where the current Ebola outbreak began last December. Britain has ordered its military to do the same in Sierra Leone. European officials note that, unlike the American military, Britain and France will provide medical personnel to staff what they build.

    In announcing the United States’ deployment, Mr. Obama was pointed in his message that America was “prepared to take the leadership on this” but could not fight the epidemic on its own. The White House in effect challenged other nations to roll out a similar level of response in Guinea and Sierra Leone, the two other nations hard hit by the disease, which were colonies of France and Britain, respectively.
     
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  4. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    this was like my view when i was 12 wondering how politicians made money. really, you cant read between the lines with these opportunist crooks.
     
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  5. GregLSU

    GregLSU LSUFANS.com

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    Something was mentioned last night on the news that are starting to see the Ebola virus mutate... what happens when this shit goes airborne?
     
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  6. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Simmah down now.

    The ebola virus is not mutating. Someone who watched The Andromeda Strain is speculating about what could happen if the virus mutated into something more sinister.

    You've got a better chance of being hit by a meteor right now.
     
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  7. LSUpride123

    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    Cars kill more people than Ebola. Thats where are attention should be.
     
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  8. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    A nurse at Dallas Presby has tested positive for ebola as of this morning. She became feverish on Friday night, went to the Presby ER and was placed into isolation approximately 90 minutes later.

    She was wearing full protective gear when she came in contact with Patient Zero at the hospital during his 2nd visit. Apparently, she does not live alone, sounds like a boyfriend/husband is in her apartment, which officals called "an apartment project." Is that to make it sound like a slum? Well, it isn't a slum; it's a converted large house that is now apartments in the much-desired "M-Streets" section of Dallas not far from the hospital.

    The M-Streets are favored by young professionals in Dallas before they make their trek out to the various suburbs when they start having children, and this morning, the mayor of Dallas was going door-to-door warning residents that a neighbor has ebola. She also has a pet in the apartment, which I assume may contract the virus as well, making it a concern for where it's been defecating in the neighborhood.
     
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  9. Winston1

    Winston1 Founding Member

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    More on this case from the Wash Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...as-eric-duncan-has-tested-positive-for-ebola/

    Viruses that are successful mutate so that they kill more slowly and become easier to transmit. This happens because the reproduce so quickly therefore an respond to what is successful.
    Is this happening with Ebola? We don't have enough data to really know. However the mortality rate has dropped from 90% to 50-60% and with the transmission to the health care worker above it may have found better vectors to travel.
    It is worth watching and being cautious. I do expect with the medical technology we have today even if it mutates and becomes more pervasive it will not become the pandemic that the plague was or even the flu in WW1.
     
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  10. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    I don't truly think it will become a pandemic, either. It is, however, frustrating that public officials are so busy telling us that it is difficult to transmit. Is it? CNN is busy telling viewers that the nurse "obviously" did something wrong. They are also insinuating that Presby Dallas is a "bad" hospital.

    My obgyn's office is inside that hospital; I had both of my children there. It's a top hospital in Dallas. The message being sent out is that it's somehow sub-standard. I don't think it is--though it seems this case has been mishandled.
     
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