Dallas Texas Ebola Case

Yeah, I trust the government. It just keeps getting better.

DALLAS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A second Texas nurse who tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the virus had traveled by jetliner a day before she reported symptoms, U.S. and airline officials said on Wednesday.
The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas had taken a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland, Ohio to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Monday, the officials said.
The woman, identified to Reuters by her grandmother as Amber Vinson, 29, was isolated immediately after reporting a fever on Tuesday, Texas Department of State Health Services officials said. She had treated Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola and was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States.
The circumstances under which Vinson traveled were not immediately known. But the latest revelation raised fresh questions about the handling of Duncan's case and its aftermath by both the hospital and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

the word on the street is that this is due to improper procedures at this particular hospital.
I'll wait untill more develops, but it sounds like gross negligence. I wouldn't be surprised if the two nurses have good grounds for a lawsuit. It's also likely that proper protocols are not in place at other hospitals across the country.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-nurses-union-claims/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

I just checked the Fox News website and they haven't panicked like this since a black man won the Presidency.

Don't forget there was the time they found out Santa was black. Just wait till Jesus returns. Then again, maybe he already has and he lives at 1600 Pensylvania Avenue.

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In this country the only people who have contracted it are healthcare workers. They were in the midst of a literal human s$h!tst0rm of bodily fluids.

No doubt. but then they go home to their neighborhoods... 76 possible contacts per each initial contact...do the math... how many "medical detectives" are on the case? in Dallas? Boston? Atlanta? St Louis?... too many people looking at computer models, and not enough people explaining the correct way to take off gloves.

No doubt. but then they go home to their neighborhoods... 76 possible contacts per each initial contact...do the math... how many "medical detectives" are on the case? in Dallas? Boston? Atlanta? St Louis?... too many people looking at computer models, and not enough people explaining the correct way to take off gloves.

I think those are terrible procedural mistakes, but if these workers did in fact infect others, then it is an indirect result of being exposed to said s$h!tst0rm. I think it is unlikely that the infective agents would have come from their own bodily fluids. This imagined scenario is hardly casual contact as ottomatik implied. Another way of putting it is, I think there is less risk in shaking hands with an asymptomatic ebola patient than caring for a highly symptomatic one while wearing a hazmat suit. Strict and proper procedure changes the healtcare workers' odds for the better. Even in the event of best practices, these workers should should not be allowed to use public transportation until it is determined that they are asymptomatic. This is just my opinion.

I know I am seriously concerned by this as a healthcare provider/ worker.

The tinfoil lobby must be raking it in this month.

Yep. That's why the President has decided not to travel. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Obama hugged and kissed ebola nurses last month in Atlanta.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...nta_n_5990584.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

Obama hugged and kissed ebola nurses last month in Atlanta.

One nit to pick with the story. He's talking about Emory. One of 4 (?) places set up for infectious disease treatment.

I just find it bizarre that they won't let him travel. How do you convey the message that everything is OK, then tell the President he has to stay home.

Meanwhile, Rick Perry flees the country.

Flees for a family vacation..traveling on a plane..going to Europe where there are four confirmed cases..Hopefully Caddies don't catch it at the country club or Chief "Hussein" Vacation is in a third world of hurt.

For a BIG government presidency, your fearless leader sure gets about 9 out 10 things wrong and you make fun of Bush? By now Bush would have been having a scotch with his hunting buddies talking of tales of "whippin' some Ebolza (you know he can't pronounce anything correctly) ASS!

The newest Ebola patient is allowed to fly to Cleveland last week..now knowingly with a fever..and somehow that is Perry's fault? This is Murika, so it is Obama's fault. Certain Death Continues. Epic failure of a presidency, what a legacy, I would be so proud to be a Democrat.

Epic failure of a presidency, what a legacy, I would be so proud to be a Democrat.

Jimmy Carter is thrilled.

Obama is coming to Seagrove for the whitest beaches in the world, it is the best and fluffiest sand to stick his head into http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-delivers-shock-awe-arms-103000525.html

My Texas bashing posts a while back were at one time tongue in cheek. That's no longer the case.

Flees for a family vacation..traveling on a plane..going to Europe where there are four confirmed cases..Hopefully Caddies don't catch it at the country club or Chief "Hussein" Vacation is in a third world of hurt.

Why is the right so afraid of a name? Silly question, I should ask why is the right always afraid anything non-white?

I love watching people lose their minds!

Does this mean Dr. Ben Carson is scared of himself? Poppy seems to think so.

Edit to add: Alan West is a loon.

Republicans are sure afraid of non-whites voting. Every voter suppression law they passed affected mostly non-whites. Fortunately they are being overturned.