EBOLA NEWS 10-15-14 - To Be Updated Throughout the Day

Second Nurse Who Contracted Ebola Traveled By Air Two Days Ago

Appears CDC's definition of 'quarantine' needs review as well: 

The second healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola last night flew by air Oct. 13th, the day before she reported symptoms, reported the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a release. 

She flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The CDC is asking all 132 passengers on the flight to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800-232-4636). Passengers will be monitored for symptoms and interviewed about the flight.

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ABC5: Plane that may have carried Ebola patient being cleaned at Clevleand Hopkins International Airport 11:19AM October 15, 2014

BreakingNews: Local reporter @DavidSchechter says family have told him that the newest Dallas Ebola patient is 26-year old Amber Joy Vinson, a registered nurse. We will update when we have further confirmation. - Grace

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Crews from @protect_environ outside #Ebola patients home in #Dallas - 3rd case diagnosed in #US #WFAA #DSLR

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WaPo: Ebola Stricken Nurse Flew On a Passenger Plane a Day Before Being Diagnosed 

The health care worker had flown from Dallas to Cleveland on Friday, Oct. 10. The flight she took back to Dallas on Monday arrived at 8:16 p.m. and remained overnight, because it was done with flights for the day.
After that, the plane “received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures” before resuming service on Tuesday, Frontier said in a statement. It was also cleaned on Tuesday night in Cleveland, the airline said.

Nurses outraged: 'There was no protocol, there was no system'

ABC5 updated 3 minutes ago The patient flew into Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Oct. 10 and out Oct. 13. She came to Akron to visit family, the Ohio Department of Health reports.

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CIDRAP Confirms Ebola Transmittable by Air

"The highly respected Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the Universityof Minnesota just advised the U.S. Centers for Disease Control(CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) that “there is scientificand epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles,” including exhaled breath."

MEANWHILE:

Current page on Ebola at OSHA, Quick Facts:
Ebola virus and EHF do not pose a threat to most U.S. workers.At this time, there is not an EBola outbreak in the U.S. The ongoing outbreak is limited to countries in West Africa . . .

This is your progressive government in action.

Twitter from Jon Gabriel
"The people screwing up the Ebola response? Soon they'll run our entire healthcare system.

Ebola Strain appears to be different

Ebola Outbreak: Liberia Needs 79,940 More Body Bags

Texas College Rejects Nigerian Applicants, Cites Ebola Cases 

Note also, family members have suggested Duncan’s 19-year-old son, Karsiah, has been indefinitely barred from Angelo State University, where he attends college - . University officials denied that, saying he could return whenever he likes.

Texas Ebola patient will move to Atlanta

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A female passenger dressed in a hazmat suit — complete with a full body gown, mask and gloves — was spotted Wednesday waiting for a flight at the airport. Another traveler snapped a photo of the woman and provided it to The Daily Caller.

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Flashback: CDC Identifies Ten Individuals as Being At "High Risk" of Infection from Thomas Eric Duncan; Those Individual Were Told Not to Travel Outside of Dallas

From Ace:

Despite this nurse obviously being a "High Risk" case -- I assume she was, anyway; if she was not on the High Risk list, that opens up a huge Pandora's box of questions -- she was not, apparently, restrained from flying (despite being within the 21 days when ebola is present but not symptomatic), nor were any special precautions before boarding (taking her temperature), nor did the CDC tell Frontier Air to decontaminate its planes.
But hey man -- she was being "closely monitored" out of "an abundance of caution."
Silly me, I thought the High Risk Cases would be confined to their apartments during their 21 days of possible asymptomatic infection.

The Washington Post's Hacktastic Plum Line: America's Fears About Ebola Are Just Due to Media Scare-Mongering

—Ace

The Democrat-Media Complex is blaming the Democratic-Media Complex for the allegedly undue panic about ebola.

Reliable Democrat spinner Paul Waldman at the Plum Line says "Congratulations, media," about the public's fear of ebola, then makes the case that heck, only two people have gotten Ebola in the US so far, and twenty four people have been struck by lightning so far this year alone.

Yeah here's the problem with that: Lightning strikes are not prone to exponential increase the way that an epidemic is. Lightning strikes are a stable phenomenon.

Lightning strikes are not doubling every three weeks as they are in West Africa.

The Secretary General of the UN stated:

The Ebola crisis has evolved into a complex emergency, with significant political, social, economic, humanitarian and security dimensions. The suffering and spillover effects in the region and beyond demand the attention of the entire world. Ebola matters to us all. The outbreak is the largest the world has ever seen. The number of cases is doubling every three weeks. There will soon be more cases in Liberia alone than in the four-decade history of the disease. In the three most affected countries -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the disease is destroying health systems. More people are now dying in Liberia from treatable ailments and common medical conditions than from Ebola....

The gravity and scale of the situation now require a level of international action unprecedented for a health emergency.

And, actually, we've had the first doubling in America these past two weeks too. Yes, it is a minor doubling, from one to two, but you cannot proceed to four, nor eight, nor 16, nor 32, without that first doubling.
One could expect the "doubling rate" in America to be slower than in Liberia. Liberians apparently have cultural practices that make the spread of the disease easier, such as the touching of the dead. Then again, I'm pretty sure the word has gotten out in Liberia -- do not touch the dead -- and yet the doubling continues.
Liberia doesn't have the health care system we do, sure. So again, we could expect the doubling rate to be slower.
But it is the nature of epidemics to double, even if slowly. And it doesn't take many doublings at all to get to truly staggering numbers -- by the twentieth doubling, two becomes just over one million.
WHO, by the way, says to expect 10,000 new ebola cases a week in West Africa.
I don't think the American people are wrong to take a serious health risk seriously. I also don't think they're panicking -- I think they're alarmed, as they should be.
Paul Waldman seems to take the fact that 67% of the public wants a travel ban from West Africa as a sign of panic, and then notes "experts say" such a ban could make things worse.
It seems to me that Paul Waldman concludes the public is in an unnecessary and irrational panic based on having a different position on a Travel Ban than Obama.
This is the same position that Obama Zealots always take: If you disagree with Obama, you are guilty of some sort of defect in thinking, whether it is "racism," "hating women," or, now, being irrationally afraid of the outbreak of a disease well into its exponential doubling phase and which kills 50% of people infected with it.