Officials with the Centers for Disease Control have confirmed that a person in Dallas definitely has the Ebola virus. Tuesday’s official determination makes the patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas the first diagnosed Ebola case in the United States.
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas Department of State Health Services, Presbyterian Hospital and Dallas County Health and Human Services all participated in an afternoon press conference. CDC Director Thomas Frieden related the information that the individual who tested positive had traveled to Liberia. The person left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20 with no virus symptoms. Frieden said it was four or five days later that the patient, who is believed to be male, began developing symptoms and was ultimately admitted to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Sunday, September 28.
“We received in our laboratory today specimens from the individual, tested them and they tested positive for Ebola. The State of Texas also operates a laboratory that found the same results,” Frieden said. After the confirmation statement Frieden went on to stress that the testing for Ebola is very accurate, saying that it’s a PCR test of blood.
As far as the medical condition of the infected patient, Frieden did say that he “is critically ill at this point.”
Now that the virus is confirmed Frieden said the next steps are three-fold. “First, to care for the patient… to provide the most effective care possible, as safely as possible, to keep to an absolute minimum the likelihood or possibility that anyone would become infected. And second, to maximize the chances that the patient might recover.” […]
Several minutes into the press conference Dr. Frieden paused and stated clearly, “The bottom line here is that 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.”
Dr. Frieden did admit that is possible a family member or other person who had contact with the patient, while he was infectious, cold develop Ebola in the coming weeks. But he said, “There is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
It still isn’t known how the patient became infected but Frieden said he, “undoubtedly had close contact with someone who was sick with Ebola or had died from it.”
Well, I certainly feel relieved that the government is in control of the situation. I’m just brimming with confidence.
Aren’t you?
And Frieden said King Barack was ‘leaning forward’ on this whole Ebola thing. That boosted my faith in this government.
american exceptionalism lol
the four horsemen of the barack
apocalypseIn the American system of government these last decision branches are determined by the president, who jealously keeps the power in his hands. One hopes he’s listening for the bells because he has to answer the alarm. Or maybe he’s muted them. It could happen you know.
Dallas? That Dallas?
..exclaimed the the ghost of Jack Ruby, laughing his chains off..
Dis Ease
How you feeling right about now? Dr. Bob is here to make it all worse… -From Bryan Preston, we learn [tip of the fedora to Instapundit]: I’ve just watched the CDC’s press conference on the Ebola patient. He is not a US citizen, though the CDC ref…
1/4 of all prison guards in TX are imported from Africa.
Also, Crowder said maybe we should start licking public bathroom stalls.
You know, to build up immunity.
He said it on Dana Loesch’s new show over on The Blaze, (6 pm ET). It’s pretty funny sometimes. She gets Crowder and Ben Howe and another dude and sometimes a guest and they sit there and mock their trolls, sometimes providing dramatic readings thereof.
I can’t help but think this whole Ebola deal was deliberately imported to our fair shores.
It’s like living in a Stephen King novel.
barackocaplyse news
The “Importation” – The “Quarantine” – Airborne Ebola ? Case Studies Since 1995 Have Confirmed Liklihood of Airborne Transmission (Video of Press Conference)
So the next time a comedian opens with “Good evening, Ladies and Joims,” he’s excluding the men?
Woman saves three relatives from Ebola
I’d prefer Tom Clancy, personally.
The right answer is Michael Crichton, for obvious reasons.
The level of official negligence it took for this to happen is certainly deliberate.
Malign neglect even.
Headline one day: ‘Ebola Outbreak Rapidly Spreads Across The USA’
Next day: ‘Martial Law Declared’
don’t you dare shame that ebola victim for his lifestyle choice.
Can we blame somebody for letting people flying into the country from an Ebola hotzone get into the country without first spending some time in quarantine?
Probably turn out to be Bush’s fault, or the Koch Brothers’.
Or the Kough Brothers.
I’m so reassured.
Yup…all my money’s in Haz-Mat Suit futures.
Ask Siri..
President EBola ?
Anything that gets Barry’s Martial-Law-Mojo running, Serr8d.
And here’s where to invest that stash-o’-cash and another reason to do so.
This from the comments on an Ebola post at Zero Hedge…
#Sharing
He’s wrong about one thing: a perfect parasite is one that does not kill it’s host. Ebola could well be the most efficient human-killing weapon evah, if / when it gets it’s airborne wings.
Way to make my day Serr8d.
As always, the story changes. One question, why give antibiotics to a patient who is thought to have a viral infection?
The antibiotics may have been for a suspected secondary bacterial infection. It happens with the flu, for example.
It’s also possible the reporter is an ignoramus.
Talk-talk.
April 15, 2014
Sept. 16, 2014
Oct. 4, 2014
“The World Health Organization reports that the death toll now tops 3,400 out of just under 7,500 cases, nearly all in West Africa.”
Top people are on top of this everywhere, top.
The next time some joker tries to claim socialized medicine in Europe is so much better than our still mostly private system, ask them why ebola patients who want to live aren’t going to Europe instead of coming here?
The web of transmission.
United Airlines Flight 998 From Brussels To Newark Liberty Met By Hazmat CDC Officials – Liberian Father and Daughter Exhibiting Signs Of Ebola Symptoms…
From my aggregation post published in the wee small hours of this morning:
…we learn of a report published on the website of the Center For Infectious Disease Research And Policy [CIDRAP] by Lisa M Brosseau, ScD, and Rachael Jones, PhD, entitled: Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola.
A highlight from their introduction:
There has been a lot of on-line and published controversy about whether Ebola virus can be transmitted via aerosols. Most scientific and medical personnel, along with public health organizations, have been unequivocal in their statements that Ebola can be transmitted only by direct contact with virus-laden fluids and that the only modes of transmission we should be concerned with are those termed “droplet” and “contact.”
These statements are based on two lines of reasoning. The first is that no one located at a distance from an infected individual has contracted the disease, or the converse, every person infected has had (or must have had) “direct” contact with the body fluids of an infected person.
This reflects an incorrect and outmoded understanding of infectious aerosols, which has been institutionalized in policies, language, culture, and approaches to infection control. We will address this below. Briefly, however, the important points are that virus-laden bodily fluids may be aerosolized and inhaled while a person is in proximity to an infectious person and that a wide range of particle sizes can be inhaled and deposited throughout the respiratory tract.
Please take the time to click here and read the full report:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-workers-need-optimal-respiratory-protection-ebola
[My post: http://thecampofthesaints.org/2014/10/04/ebola-well-and-truly-screwed/ ]
>US border security devotes more time and resources to Campbell Webster of Concord bringing in a bagpipe than to Thomas Duncan of Monrovia bringing in Ebola.
Come to that, US border security devotes more time and resources to my kid bringing in a Kinder chocolate egg from Canada than to Thomas Duncan bringing in Ebola. Speaking of which, I recount the Great Kinder Egg Showdown in my new book, which comes out this month. You can pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Indigo-Chapters in Canada, and other retailers.
If you’re wondering why the seizure of my kids’ chocolate eggs is in the same book as war and terrorism and all the big-boy stuff, the answer is it’s part of the same story. To function, institutions have to be able to prioritize – even big, bloated, money-no-object SWAT-teams-for-every-penpusher institutions like the US Government. You can’t crack down on Kinder eggs, bagpipes and Ebola: At a certain point, you have to choose. <
link
Well, you have to admit, a bagpipe can be a far more skirlous weapon…
” Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms. ”
Okay
“First symptoms are the sudden onset of fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat”
So humans are infective before they develop symptoms other than common ones?
does the CDC even have any employees what focus on infectious diseases?
>does the CDC even have any employees what focus on infectious diseases?<
dude global warming!!11!!
Treatment of the Ebola contact.
>does the CDC even have any employees what focus on infectious diseases?<
filled with baracky clones
Ebola: A Hemorrhagic Fever by Any Other Name
If only the GOP would remind voters of the Democrats’ lack of willingness and ability to control anyone or anything entering this Republic, we might see a real backlash in November against their goofy open-border asses.. All it would take would be Ted Cruz and a few more like him to loudly announce that we must stop inbound, possibly infectious, traffics from West Africa (and from that long border just south of here) until we are ready to vaccinate all Americans against Ebola and whatever unnamed fresh hell virus is paralyzing our children.
The immediate gut reaction against Cruz by Leftists in both parties would illustrate who is dead set against preserving this Republic as we know it.
#isisisislam news
Islamic State putting price tags on abducted infidel women, selling them in Mosul
is ben affleck really necessary?
i mean really really necessary
he’s not like tampons
he’s not like cocktail sauce
he’s not like missy peregrym
he’s not like fall foliage
he’s not like therapy dogs
he’s not like antibiotics
WordPress hates me everywhere except here so instead of a comment at Bob’s blog I’ll put it here.
A few more things to ponder together.
Except as noted the comment by Bob above it is at short range by coughing/sneezing. A fully symptomatic patient will have about 100 million virus copies per milliliter of fluid.
Now this said the body does fight this virus, somehow, because people do survive and develop resistance. Being infected by a single virus particle landing on bare skin from a person who appears to have the flu coughing behind you in the elevator is to be thought of as almost impossible and that’s true.
But the fact that it is so infective, that the early symptoms look like other common infections, that even later ones look like some other not quite so dangerous infections, that it can pass through unbroken skin, that the fluids expelled by an infected person contain so many viral copies. These things taken together say that this is a disease that must be dealt with by serious people who are not looking at poll numbers to see how effective their efforts are.
>by serious people who are not looking at poll numbers to see how effective their efforts are.<
you want leadership from baracky? fore(ward) to the next hole.
that’s the scary thought. 2 more years of the bs artist as prezident
the “fore” horsemen of the barackolapse news
Official: Enterovirus 68 virus caused boy’s death
relax “all is well” news
Unreal: NYT journo reports CDC employee claims the agency is more fearful of THIS than Ebola itself
ben affleck talks proggtarded
It was WordPress this time, Geoff, but me.
I have my site set to put any post in the Approval Queue that has more than two links in it.
I just approved your comment.
FYI: The reason it took me so long to do this was that Mrs. B. and I were catching up on The Knick [which is a well-done show] by watching the last two episodes. Interestingly, in one of them, one of the Doctors had to testify to try and keep Mary Mallon [aka: Typhoid Mary] from being released from quarantine. He failed – as happened in Real Life – and she was last seen applying for a house chef’s job under a different name. The CDC was not available for comment.
It was not WordPress this time…
Apologies.
Obama on 20 Jan 2017: “Oh, what an artist leaves office in me.”
i hate him so much
fascist job-raping piece of shit
ben affleck be spittle stupid
Ebola (And Polio?): Clusterf–k – Stage II
NOTE: These posts are not an attempt to be comprehensive in coverage of the Ebola story. They just contain some items that have caught my eye [which is still not hemorrhaging blood, I’m happy to report — that only happens when I look at Debbie Vasser…
Out of Control
Thank you Bob. WordPress said I was signed in but then asked me to sign in as if I wasn’t and my comment didn’t show up so I figured I’d goofed up.
In other Ebola stuff.
Now I do understand that he is trying to speak down to layman level but words do mean things and Ebola is very infectious, it just isn’t as contagious as flu, measles, or the common cold. At least as far as we know for now. The word “contagious” is not some weird one no one has ever heard and would be truthful and not confuse the issue.
The word he should have used, consistent with my other reading, would be “transmissible.”
The word “infectious” refers, I believe, to the likelihood that exposure will lead to infection, and given the sheer density of the virus in a patient’s body fluids that’s got to be damn near 100%.
Now this said the body does fight this virus, somehow, because people do survive and develop resistance. –
I’ll have to track it down, but someone was on Prager’s show Thursday or Friday talking about survival – and it really has to do with how soon medical care starts — if you get the person early when symptoms manifest and start them on rigorous IV of electrolytes, their chances of survival are very very good.
Medical care in Africa is barely existent.
I heard if you swallow a spoonful of cinammon before going into a “hot zone” you have between 3 to 5 hours where the virus won’t be able to infect you at all
Tory Belecci is safe, then.
oh geez … I’ve just been arguing with someone over colloidal silver!
Go ahead, live your life looking like Papa Smurf, but this Ebola-created-by-CIA and All-vaccines-are-Big-Pharma-Government-conspiracy-to-control-you is downright dangerous.
Take it away, Hoagy!
heh, mo hoagy.
Heh: the best Hoagy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDI5kGGMF7s&list=RDgDI5kGGMF7s
…played by the best trumpeter.
The best Ira Gershwin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7x-Q3oTjQ&list=RDgDI5kGGMF7s&index=2
Adios to the offseason
law-firmgolf-firm of Sigh Young, Sigh Young and Sigh Young: Ya gave me all the agita I could stand.But ain’t the beer cold?
38th parallel news
Top North Korean Officials Make Surprise Visit to South Korea
Please to smile when you say that.
**** The DPRK will deal the heaviest blow to anyone who resorts to heinous hostile act of slandering its dignity and social system.
The puppet group’s hostile acts of doing harm to the fellow countrymen and stirring up confrontation have gone beyond the tolerance limit.
The DPRK will never pardon those who dare defame its dignity and social system, no matter who or where they might be, but deal the most merciless sledge-hammer blows to them.
The south Korean authorities should not just pay lip-service to “dialogue” but immediately stop their own anti-DPRK reckless acts first and make the riff-raff stop such hostile acts as doing harm to and slandering the compatriots in the north. ****
Meanwhile:“The Weird Science of North Korea”
>Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) <
the norks showed up 2 days later.
lying liars who what lie news
Is Another Obama Administration Scandal About to Explode?
the norks showed up 2 days later…
…to deal the most merciless sledge-hammer blows to the reckless riff-raff dignity defamers, no matter who or where they might be. Especially even down south.
Meanwhile, in DPRC news:
**** “Organizers had promised a big fire display for Chicago’s first Great Chicago Fire Festival, but in the end it didn’t quite meet expectations.
Crowds were disappointed when the spectacle of fire ended up fizzling on the Chicago River this weekend. Elaborate sculptures of Victorian homes did not go up in flames like they were supposed to.
Organizers blame recent heavy rains for an electrical malfunction.” ****
>to deal the most merciless sledge-hammer blows to the reckless riff-raff dignity defamers, no matter who or where they might be. Especially even down south. <
so you are commie scum?
Nope, I am Chicago Democrat.
Although, tomato, tomahto.
so yes to commie scum?
>Nope, I am Chicago
Democratfascist/communist .Plus, I’m not the one looking for social system slanderers.
It’s the Norks.
In order to deal the most merciless…
>In order to deal the most merciless…<
like baracky and ebola pal
“so yes to commie scum?”
Even worse, I’m thinking of becoming a Registered Packer Fan.
Ronald Reagan TV Ad: “The Bear”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwdcmjBgNA