Ebola in Brooklyn? [Sudanese]Teen hospitalized after showing symptoms of fatal virus
"A Brooklyn teenager was rushed to the hospital yesterday after showing symptoms consistent with Ebola."..."He is currently in isolation.
The boy was apparently in Sudan for two weeks and hospitalized there as well, but lied to officials about being sick so he could fly home.
Now, NYPD is working with officials to see if any of his family members should also be quarantined."UPDATED - They say Ebola has been ruled out already:
Brooklyn teen who recently returned from a trip to Sudan was rushed to the hospital Friday night with Ebola-like symptoms, but was ultimately cleared of the deadly disease, officials told the Daily News.
The stricken 14-year-old boy spiked a fever and was complaining of feeling fluish, law enforcement sources said. The teenager was brought to Brookdale University Hospital, where staff isolated him from other patients.
He was in a room with the shades drawn and the door tightly closed, but no quarantine sign or warning was posted. Staff ran tests to determine if the boy had contracted the potentially deadly sickness, officials told The News, which was the first to report the story on nydailynews.com.
Doctors had ruled out Ebola early Saturday, according to an NYPD spokesman, but neither the FDNY nor the city’s Office of Emergency Management could confirm these findings. Hospital officials did not return calls.Obviously they did not have time to actually test for Ebola. Ebola tests take 48 hours.
But they did have time to use a Ouija Board.
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NBC Phila.: New Jersey Enforces Isolation Order for NBC Crew Exposed to Ebola Patient
New Jersey officials have issued a mandatory quarantine order for members of an NBC crew that was exposed to a cameraman with Ebola after a voluntary 21-day isolation agreement was violated.
The order went into effect Friday night and lasts until Oct. 22.
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New Jersey officials have issued a mandatory quarantine order for members of an NBC crew that was exposed to a cameraman with Ebola after a voluntary 21-day isolation agreement was violated.
The order went into effect Friday night and lasts until Oct. 22.
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SacBee: 3 more people under observation for Ebola in Spain
The Associated Press
Published: Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 - 4:33 am
MADRID -- Three more people are under observation in a Madrid hospital, boosting the number currently being monitored for Ebola symptoms to 16. A nursing assistant infected with the virus remains stable.
The three are a nurse who treated Teresa Romero, a hairdresser who served her and a hospital cleaner were admitted to Madrid's Carlos III hospital Friday.
The Associated Press
Published: Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 - 4:33 am
MADRID -- Three more people are under observation in a Madrid hospital, boosting the number currently being monitored for Ebola symptoms to 16. A nursing assistant infected with the virus remains stable.
The three are a nurse who treated Teresa Romero, a hairdresser who served her and a hospital cleaner were admitted to Madrid's Carlos III hospital Friday.
YES, IN THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE THEY USE THE WORD "ATTACK", THOUGH IN THE CONTENTS THEY SPEAK OF AN "OUTBREAK"
What's up with that?
Sounds to me like the story got changed midstream.
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Cambridgeshire 'Ebola victim' could have prompted panic by joking about killer disease, friend says
Colin Jaffray died while on a business trip in Macedonia this week with symptoms similar to those associated with Ebola.
Colin Jaffray died while on a business trip in Macedonia this week with symptoms similar to those associated with Ebola.
Liberia rejects increasing presidential power to combat Ebola crisis
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law would have turned Liberia into a police state.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law would have turned Liberia into a police state.
ChannelNewsAsia: Spanish Ebola nurse in 'better' state and talking October 11, 2014 20:09
FWIW...Odd link to add but it popped up in the category of "quarantine" along with all the other 'ebola' links:
Telegraph: Gibraltar to export 30 pesky monkeys to Scotland
Telegraph: Gibraltar to export 30 pesky monkeys to Scotland
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Here's what I think will happen: many, many false alarms, the result of which to relax our personal guard. Then the shark will swim up and bite us on the ass. After the November 2014 elections, of course.
Possibly of interest, albeit anecdotal.
From Alway's link:
"According to National Nurses United, 76 percent of nurses surveyed say their hospital has not communicated to them any policy regarding potential admission of Ebola patients, 85 percent say their hospital has not provided education sessions where nurses can ask questions, and just over one-third say their hospital has insufficient supplies of face shields and impermeable gowns."
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How in blazes can Duncan's survivors have any legitimacy to sue anyone given how unprepared our entire medical system is/was upon his arrival? ...not to mention Duncan's own personal culpability for withholding incredibly crucial details about his recent exposure from the hospital AND his family members!
Had Duncan immediately revealed his exposure to Ebola, the entire sequence of events upon arrival at triage would have been altered.
Instead, Duncan's 'silence' cost him his life AND potentially and recklessly exposed untold numbers of professional and caring individuals working on his behalf.
As we approach zero hour this week...
*mean incubation period was estimated to be 12.7 days (standard deviation 4.31 days), indicating that about 4.1% of patients may have incubation periods longer than 21 days.
... ALL those individuals who were exposed to Duncan and the materials/facilities used to treat him will either stay healthy (Thank GOD) or begin to show symptoms (Dear GOD).
Any victim(s) of Duncan's reckless exposure should sue for the proceeds from any party (including race-baiting charlatans like Jesse Jackson & ambulance chasers lining up to line their pockets)who will benefit from those legal $henanigan$.
Did Duncan or his family disclose to the hospital that he had Ebola when he made his initial visit?
If not, case closed.
Several reports from MSM document several family members going on record to deny any knowledge of Duncan's exposure to Ebola. Just a few examples:
CNN Oct 03, 2014 ·
Wilfred Smallwood Duncan's half-brother said that when Duncan first visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, neither Duncan nor the hospital knew then that he had Ebola.
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WaPo October 8
Family members said Duncan did not know that he, too, had contracted Ebola before he boarded a flight. When he received the diagnosis, he told Troh, whom he called “the love of his life,” that he regretted bringing the virus to Dallas and possibly exposing her.
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Fox October 4, 2014
[Younger Jallah]is a 35-year-old nurse's aide and the daughter of Louise Troh, Duncan’s girlfriend. He traveled from Ebola-racked Liberia to visit Troh on Sept. 21. Troh and Duncan met in West Africa. They have a college-age son.
"I knocked at the door and he gave me a big hug," Jallah told the Journal, describing her initial encounter with him and the first time she had ever seen him."...
" She said she knew well that Ebola was a big problem in Liberia. Duncan didn’t tell her he had been in contact with anyone who was sick but she wasn’t taking any chances."
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Hold.
The.
Phone.
Anonymous at Saturday, October 11, 2014 7:34:00 pm left a link about extended incubation of Ebola Subtype Zaire.
Which subtype is the outbreak that's going on right now?
This is a second posting of response to AoW's question of subtype . . .previous entry accepted then ??
Who.int
The current outbreak in west Africa, (first cases notified in March 2014), is the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak since the Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976. There have been more cases and deaths in this outbreak than all others combined. It has also spread between countries starting in Guinea then spreading across land borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia, by air (1 traveller only) to Nigeria, and by land (1 traveller) to Senegal.
The most severely affected countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have very weak health systems, lacking human and infrastructural resources, having only recently emerged from long periods of conflict and instability. On August 8, the WHO Director-General declared this outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
A separate, unrelated Ebola outbreak began in Boende, Equateur, an isolated part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The virus family Filoviridae includes 3 genera: Cuevavirus, Marburgvirus, and Ebolavirus. There are 5 species that have been identified: Zaire, Bundibugyo, Sudan, Reston and Taï Forest. The first 3, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, and Sudan ebolavirus have been associated with large outbreaks in Africa. The virus causing the 2014 west African outbreak belongs to the Zaire species.
Dr. in Liberia Explains MILLIONS Wasted in Ebola Fight
The Zaire strain, then.
Trouble for the world.
Big trouble!
Thomas Sowell: Ebola and Obama
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is both a danger in itself and a wake-up call for Americans — about President Obama, about the institutions of this country and, most important, about ourselves.
There was a time when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring virtually unanimous agreement that our top priority should be to keep it overseas. Yet Barack Obama has refused to bar entry to the United States by people from countries where the Ebola epidemic rages, as Britain has done.
The reason? Refusing to let people with Ebola enter the United States would conflict with the goal of fighting the disease. In other words, the safety of the American people takes second place to the goal of helping people overseas.
AoW - New England Journal of Medicine, Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea
Brief October 9, 2014 with 25 citing articles
continued:
In March 2014, the World Health Organization was notified of an outbreak of a communicable disease characterized by fever, severe diarrhea, vomiting, and a high fatality rate in Guinea. Virologic investigation identified Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) as the causative agent. Full-length genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis showed that EBOV from Guinea forms a separate clade in relationship to the known EBOV strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. Epidemiologic investigation linked the laboratory-confirmed cases with the presumed first fatality of the outbreak in December 2013. This study demonstrates the emergence of a new EBOV strain in Guinea.
WTF?
MSNBC, The Syllabus
Melissa Harris Perry MHP
10/11/2014 08:46 PM
By Victoria Asbury
This Sunday on Melissa Harris-Perry: contagion, court, and A Cup of Water.
First, the relationship between Ebola and ISIS: an irrational push to “secure the border.” Hillary Mann Leverett, professor at American University, will join host Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss why a secure border is essential to national security, yet, the focus on “keeping the bad guys out” can distract from solutions that address the root causes of these global crises.
Anonymous @ Sunday, October 12, 2014 1:47:00 am,
Thanks for that link.
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