American doctor infected with Ebola

Hope they both stay well.

http://news.sky.com/story/1345131/first-case-of-ebola-diagnosed-in-united-states

First Case Of Ebola Diagnosed In United States
The man became infected in Liberia and then travelled to Texas, where he remains in strict isolation in hospital.

The first case of ebola has been diagnosed in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed.

The patient is a man who became infected in Liberia and flew to Texas, where he is now being treated in hospital, a CDC spokesman said.

He is not a healthcare worker, the spokesman added.

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said earlier it had placed a person in strict isolation based on their "symptoms and recent travel history".

CDC director Doctor Thomas Frieden told a press conference US hospitals are well prepared to handle patients with ebola, adding the virus should not pose the same threat in the US as it does in Africa.

"I have no doubt that we will control this importation of this case of ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country," he said.

Dr Frieden said he did not believe there is a threat to passengers on the same flight to the US as the patient, who did not display any symptoms when he left Liberia or upon entering the US.

He arrived in Texas on September 20 on a family visit.

The man sought treatment six days later and has been in hospital since the weekend.

More at link.

These days, the last thing I ever feel after listening to 'experts' is re-assured.

Yup. More experts:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11132475/First-Ebola-victim-in-America-was-sent-home-with-antibiotics.html

irst Ebola victim in America was sent home with antibiotics
The patient, who contracted the disease in Liberia, presented himself at a hospital in Dallas, Texas but was given antibiotics and told to go home. Now, health officials have launched a desperate search for others he could have unwittingly infected

The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in America was initially sent home with antibiotics after doctors failed to recognise the symptoms of the deadly disease.
A desperate search has now been launched to find other people in Dallas, Texas who the man could have infected.
The patient had arrived in Dallas on a flight from Liberia and later presented himself at the hospital because he was feeling ill.
He was told to go home and take the antibiotics, but two days later his condition had deteriorated so badly that an ambulance had to be called.
He is now critically ill and in isolation at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

The ambulance vehicle used to transport him has been quarantined.
Three paramedics who were sent to get him are being kept isolated at their homes and will be monitored for three weeks, the incubation period of Ebola, to see if they develop any symptoms.
Dr Edward Goodman, an epidemiologist at the hospital, said the patient was able to communicate and had been asking for food. He added: "There is no risk to any person in the hospital."
A specialist team from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has arrived in Dallas.

But medical officials said the patient, who has not been named, would not be given the experimental treatment ZMapp because there is none of it left.
It was previously used on Dr Kent Brantly, an American aid worker who was diagnosed in Liberia and then flown back to the US and successfully treated.
The patient in Texas is the first case diagnosed outside Africa in the current outbreak there, which has killed more than 3,000 people.

Officials have not disclosed his nationality but a statement from the city of Dallas said he was visiting relatives in the US.
He arrived in Dallas from Liberia on Sept 20 but showed no symptoms at the time. He began feeling ill four days later and went to the hospital on Sept 26, when he was given the antibiotics.
Two days after that he was rushed in and tested for Ebola. The diagnosis was confirmed at 3.32pm local time on Tuesday.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said: "This can happen to any large city that's truly international today. I am saddened that the randomness of life has landed this in Dallas, but it's a sign of how diverse and international we are as a city." Texas Governor Rick Perry was due in Dallas today to meet with health officials.
Investigators from the CDC will interview the patient to see who he has been in contact with and draw up a map of where and when the contacts took place.
Anyone he came into close contact with will be monitored for 21 days. If they become sick they will be immediately isolated.
Passengers on the flight from Liberia were not at risk because the man was not sick at that point, health officials said.
They have not released the name of the airline he flew with. American Airlines has said it was not one of their flights.
Stanley Gaye, president of the Liberian Community Association of Dallas-Fort Worth, said: "People have been calling, trying to find out if anybody knows the family. We've been telling people to try to stay away from social gatherings."


As someone on ZH commented:

I'm gonna party like it's 1349.....

He wasn't sick at that point? So where did he catch it? In Dallas?

Sabot wrote:He wasn't sick at that point?  So where did he catch it?  In Dallas?

ymptoms of Ebola virus disease
The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days. Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. First symptoms are the sudden onset of fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function, and in some cases, both internal and external bleeding (e.g. oozing from the gums, blood in the stools).

Seems to depend on the incubation period and how long it took for him to get to the USA and, of course, when exactly he caught it. LL

And where he was prior to arriving in Dallas.

There is a Bloody Epidemic going on in Africa. Does where he was have nothing to do with it?

The patient had arrived in Dallas on a flight from Liberia and later presented himself at the hospital because he was feeling ill.
He was told to go home and take the antibiotics, but two days later his condition had deteriorated so badly that an ambulance had to be called.

Amazing that no alarm bells started ringing! Never mind, I am sure the experts have it all in hand.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-virus-in-liberia-creates-body-recovery-dangers-1.2781892

The disease is rampaging across Liberia so why, when he came through security at Dallas Airport he wasn't immediately taken to one side, sent to the local hospital and quaranteed for say 21 days as that is the longest date re the disease manifesting itself? Someone screwed up there. LL

I am well past assuming that anyone supposedly 'in charge' in the West has the foggiest idea what they are doing, LL. I suspect whoever saw this man couldn't be ar@ed hanging around to do any blood tests, etc., because he/she had a hot date that night and was running late.

Or this guy hadn't managed to sign up for Obamacare, or the website had crashed yet again and his insurance claim couldn't be processed. It'll be a complete screw-up, over something idiotic, someone will be scapegoated, Lessons will be Learned, and meanwhile ebola slowly but surely spreads through US cities.

I am beyond trying to figure out what is going on.

Doctors coming back from somewhere in Africa, feeling ill and being sent on their way with Ebola.

Parents of small children being arrested on an instant EAW for trying to stop The NHS from frying the brains of their babies.

Convicted Murderers being allowed into England.

Rome burns while politicians fiddle in an attempt to stop a Nation from determining it's own fate.

Regard History. The decline and fall.

And don't forget the latest piece of genius from the Ministry of Defence, Sabot.

Spending the best part of £200,000 to destroy a stolen pick-up truck via Tornado.

bb1 wrote:And don't forget the latest piece of genius from the Ministry of Defence, Sabot.

Spending the best part of £200,000 to destroy a stolen pick-up truck via Tornado.

Saw that, Bonny. Bloody well pissing about again. I don't want a war, but for Christ's sake do something.

That's not pissing about, it's a total waste of money to keep Daily Mail readers happy while they wail, Something must be done.

IT'S TOO LATE.

The west shouldn't have invaded Iraq in the first place, shouldn't have armed these lunatics in the hope of deposing Assad, shouldn't have done any of it. The US bill so far for bombing Iraq for the fourth time is just short of a billion dollars.

What's that saying about the definition of stupidity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

bb1 wrote:That's not pissing about, it's a total waste of money to keep Daily Mail readers happy while they wail, Something must be done.

IT'S TOO LATE.

The west shouldn't have invaded Iraq in the first place, shouldn't have armed these lunatics in the hope of deposing Assad, shouldn't have done any of it. The US bill so far for bombing Iraq for the fourth time is just short of a billion dollars.

What's that saying about the definition of stupidity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

Yer well, they catch us when we are feeling emotive. And it isn't all that easy to say that we should mind our own business. Even if any of them had been listening to the common herd anyway.

I turned right off when I saw that disgusting video of Saddam being hung. That was it for me. They are all as bad as each other. Including Westminster.

Just stop pissing about. Either bomb them or don't. I don't really care anymore.

Well, there is now internet gossip, so far unconfirmed, that Mr Ebola didn't fly straight into Dallas, that he first landed at a hub airport like JFK.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/01/details-about-first-us-ebola-patient-remain-mystery/

Little is known about the patient, including his name, age, and nationality. Officials say he lived and worked in Liberia, where he likely caught the disease from one of the thousands infected in that country, but showed no symptoms when he flew back to the U.S. Sept. 19. As a result, no one who traveled with him on that flight is at risk of Ebola.

It is not clear why he traveled to Dallas, where he has been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday. Federal officials told the Dallas Morning News he was visiting family members, while city officials told the paper that he had made a permanent move.

Looks like Mr Ebola was somewhere else before he fell ill in Dallas.

I don't have a proper link for it yet, but it is being alleged that Mr Ebola travelled through Brussels to get to Texas. There is a second, unconfirmed but suspected case of Ebola in Dallas - connected to #1. #1 seems to have been going about his business as best he could with his 'viral infection', so there's nothing good about any of this.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01/texas-governor-rick-perry-explain-how-despite-2nd-case-ebola-contained-live-feed


With rumors spreading (and seemingly confirmed) of a 2nd Ebola case in Dallas; Texas Governor Rick Perry is set to explain to the American public that it's all under control (despite the hospital discharging the Ebola victim 2 days ago) and the virus is contained (despite its potential spread to 12-18 more people)... Reuters further reports that the man being treated for Ebola in Texas traveled through Brussels en route to US according to the Liberian ministry of information.


Perry's about to make A Statement, doubtless assuring Texans there's nothing to worry about.

Mail goes to full panic mode as it speculates Mr Ebola passed through Heathrow:

Fears are growing that the Ebola victim currently in quarantine in Dallas, Texas, could travelled via London's Heathrow airport on his way to the U.S.
The patient was infected with the deadly virus in Liberia. He is known to have then flown to Brussels, Belgium, but there are no direct flights to Dallas from there.
That raises the alarming prospect that he may have travelled via Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport, to take a connecting flight back home to Texas.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2776747/Did-US-Ebola-victim-change-flights-Heathrow-Patient-flew-Liberia-Brussels-route-Dallas-taken-London.html#ixzz3EvSyS0ci
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In Mailworld, it is clearly OK if it's just those nasty Europeans that have been ebola'd; it's only 'alarming' if it involves this sceptred isle.

This goes to show what the high echelons feel about this horrendous scourge.  

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/30/hurt-ebola-mission-not-worthy-of-troops-sacrifices/

But politicians simply do not care about ordinary soldiers, they never have and never will. Of course it's damned stupid sending military personnel to Africa to 'fight Ebola', but I suspect we are back with media demands that something must be done. Unless there is oil or minerals in the area of the outbreak?

They would be better employed CLOSING THE SOUTHERN BORDER.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140930-dallas-ebola-patient-told-hospital-personnel-he-was-from-liberia.ece

Dallas-area residents learned during a noon news conference Wednesday that a man infected with Ebola had been in contact with as many as five Dallas ISD students and that he had been released from the hospital late last week despite telling hospital personnel that he was visiting from Liberia.

What can you possibly say?

F.U.C.K.?

Do we have a Pres who is pathological?  I ask because nothing makes any sense.....