EBOLA Dallas Hospital Ebola Patient - DIED - 10/8/2014 - FIRST IN USA!

[raven]

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If it needs to go elsewhere, do the needful

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/dallas-hospital-monitoring-patient-ebola-25851347

Dallas Hospital Monitoring Patient for Ebola

A patient in a Dallas hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in strict isolation with test results pending, hospital officials said Monday.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said in a statement Monday that the patient's symptoms and recent travel indicated a case of Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected a handful of Americans who have traveled to that region.

Preliminary test results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to come back Tuesday.

Hospital spokeswoman Candace White would not answer any questions about the patient or where the patient had visited.

The National Institutes of Health recently admitted an American doctor exposed to the virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone. Four other patients have been treated at hospitals in Georgia and Nebraska.

Presbyterian Hospital's statement said officials there were following CDC recommendations to keep doctors, staff and patients safe.

According to the CDC, Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding, and can appear as long as 21 days after exposure to the virus.

 

[ainitfunny]

And so it REALLY BEGINS(first patient not INTENTIONALLY brought to America for treatment and discovered among our YET uninfected population).

 

[msswv123]

North Texas Patient Tested for Possible Ebola
By Kevin Young


A patient has been admitted into strict isolation at a North Texas hospital for testing of potential Ebola virus disease.

In a statement released Monday evening, a spokesperson for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said the patient is undergoing evaluation for Ebola based on the patient's symptoms and recent travel history.
Further details on the patient were not released due to medical confidentiality and personal privacy reasons.

"The hospital is following all Centers for Disease Control and Texas Department of Heath recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, hospital staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors," according to the hospital's statement.

Preliminary test results are expected by the CDC on Tuesday.

We'll update this story with more information as soon as it's available. As this story is developing, elements may change.


http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/North-Texas-Patient-Tested-for-Possible-Ebola-277529961.html

 

[raven]

Travel history and Symptoms - wonder how long it will take to confirm

 

[eXe]

Now this is not good news. We've been saying it's only a matter of time until it gets here, and bringing people here for treatment certainly isn't helping the situation.

 

[Flippper]

Simply impossible. They said it couldn't happen.

 

[msswv123]

North Texas Hospital Evaluating Patient For Potential Ebola Exposure
September 29, 2014 9:06 PM


DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas hospital has a patient in isolation as they evaluate them for potential exposure to the Ebola virus.

Officials with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas released the following statement Monday night:

“Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has admitted a patient into strict isolation to be evaluated for potential Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) based on the patient’s symptoms and recent travel history. The hospital is following all Centers for Disease Control and Texas Department of Heath recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, hospital staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors. The CDC anticipates preliminary results tomorrow.”

It is unclear what specific symptoms the patient has or what the patient’s travel history was.

CBS 11 News spoke with Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson who confirmed the patient had been in an area where the Ebola virus exists. “Looking at the travel history is the first indicator and then the next step is [treatment or non-treatment] once we get lab results,” he said.

Thompson definitely felt that there should be a heightened sense of awareness in North Texas, based on what has happened internationally. “With what we’ve seen in the media and how deadly the Ebola virus is, it is a concern.”


Thompson stressed that there are certain procedures that will be followed if tests for the ptient come back positive. “We [health professionals] all had been planning to look at what our next steps are if there is a confirmed case. Again, we have to do the public health follow up, to see what contacts… where this individual has gone since they arrived here in Dallas. There are a number of things that have to be looked at.”

As far as possible infection to others here in North Texas Thompson said, “The key point is, if there’s been no transmission, blood, secretion, any type of bodily fluids by the infected person to someone else, then that risk is low to none.”

The Ebola virus has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected several Americans who have traveled to the region, including Fort Worth Doctor Kent Brantly who contracted the disease while doing missionary work in Liberia.
This is a developing story. CBS 11 News has crews gathering more information and will have that as soon as it is available.


(©2014 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/North-Texas-Patient-Tested-for-Possible-Ebola-277529961.html

 

[vessie]

I have a *feeling* that if the test comes back positive for Ebola, they'll still deny it.

Must keep the flow of commerce going no matter what!

If the info got out that it was positive, people would either do a mass exodus out of Dallas (the informed type) or they won't go out and that'l be bad for business. V

 

[TxGal]

This is too close for comfort...waiting to hear results and travel info. Needed to do a Costco run anyhow, this info may make it a big one.

 

[kelly1mm]

While I have not yet left for my BOL about 100 miles away, this news is the first thing in at least 5 years that has made me give it serious thought. If another case pops up in TX, I will probably be out of here (not TX, but in a suburban environment) for sure! With a 10+ day incubation period (AFAIK), there could be thousands of infected persons in a matter of days/weeks.

I pray that they got this one into quarantine before he/she was able to infect anyone else.

 

[Cyclonemom]

North Texas Patient Tested for Possible Ebola
By Kevin Young

My heart skipped a beat. I read "possible" as positive!!

So, do TPTB try to track down every contact and quarantine those people if it does come back positive? Is there any word on which group does this? DHS? CDC? Who carries jurisdiction if it is +?

 

[msswv123]

My heart skipped a beat. I read "possible" as positive!!

So, do TPTB try to track down every contact and quarantine those people if it does come back positive? Is there any word on which group does this? DHS? CDC? Who carries jurisdiction if it is +?

Hopefully not the CDC since based on reports about the virus hitting children across they country they are having a hard time getting any testing done for the doctors or giving them direction on what to do. (one doctor told to call 911 to try and get information for her patient)

Maybe someone more qualified to answer could enlighten us on what 'should" happen IF it is a positive and who would handle it.

 

[vessie]

Not related to this story but this has got me thinking of vectors.

What bothers me is all those Somalis working as taxi drivers all over the states, especially at the airports like here at SeaTac who are bringing their relatives here from Ethiopia daily and God knows what they're bringing in that would infect their taxi driving family members who in turn are in a closed airspace (vehicle) with a traveler.

I hate taking a taxi with those drivers anyway and I don't trust them one bit. Especially with all this Isis shit going on, who knows if Ebola is out 'there' and just waiting for the incubation periods to end. V

 

[Vegas321]

Travel huh? Over the Rio Grande??? If this person did travel by airplane, they/we got a problem.

 

[meandk0610]

I must have missed this before, but have we been hearing about each individual tested in the US? If not, why this one?

 

[rummer]

What I worry about is all of the false negatives they have with their testing. So even if this patient tests negative i would be still worried.

 

[Stormy]

I am a health insurance agent for Medicare Advantage and PDP. Today I got in my email in-box from two insurance companies information on a "tropical disease rider" they are offering specifically for ebola.

 

[AddisonRose]

There is a huge African population in Dallas who work in nursing homes and hospitals. They routinely go home for a month or two at a time for vacation. I understand that the CDC guidelines just came down the pike to the area hospitals last week.

 

[PyratePrincess]

Well, as a dallas suburbanite, I can say that THIS was exactly the reason I pulled the drawbridge up last week. Early or no...it's only a matter of time - and even the cdc has admitted this.

It's fall (though it doesn't feel like it) and that means state fairs, carnivals, haunted houses and FOOTBALL games. ALL these people (and their kids) also go grocery shopping, to school, to the movies, to costco, wally world, etc.....

I'll be downright SHOCKED if they admit any cases as positive.

 

[33dInd]

Well crapola on a short stick.
Beheadings from muzzle wackos a couple miles down the road and African Ebola possible in my neighboring state.
This country is going to hell in a hand basket

 

[Cyclonemom]

Well crapola on a short stick.
Beheadings from muzzle wackos a couple miles down the road and African Ebola possible in my neighboring state.
This country is going to hell in a hand basket

Agreed. Oklahoma always struck me as a very nice, buttoned up, conservative sorta place.

Hope things get straightened out in your AO soon!

 

[ginnie6]

Well crapola on a short stick.
Beheadings from muzzle wackos a couple miles down the road and African Ebola possible in my neighboring state.
This country is going to hell in a hand basket

It's already gone I'm afraid....

 

[dstraito]

This should wake some people up. Many have the mentality that it only happens in a far away remote place, even Atlanta, if you don't live in Atlanta seems far away.

Being in the DFW area tends to bring the reality much closer than I would like it to be.

otoh, if the prediction of 1 billion by August 2015 comes true that means 1 out of every 7 people will get infected. That dwarfs the Spanish Flu that went around so it sounds pretty scary to me.

 

[BertaBurtonLake]

Travel history and Symptoms - wonder how long it will take to confirm

Preliminary test results are expected by the CDC on Tuesday. From article in post #3

 

[joyfulheart]

Don't know anyone at that hospital, but that's too close for comfort as according to googlemaps, it's only 19.9 miles from my home.
Even closer to where hubby often visits for work. (3 miles)

Scary stuff!

 

[Cyclonemom]

Hopefully this person sought treatment at the very beginning of any symptoms (reportedly also when becomes contagious). Cause if he/she went down to the drugstore, or went to work, or the grocery store........ uhoh!

All you TB'ers down in TX be careful! If you need any supplies (bleach, gloves, masks, groceries, etc) get them NOW!

 

[CnMO]

Preliminary test results are expected by the CDC on Tuesday. From article in post #3

Any news yet on the Test Results? It's going on noon time in Dallas.

 

[Mama Ten Bears]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/30/6162320/cdc-team-mobilizing-to-come-to.html

No confirmation, but CDC is mobilizing. That alarms me. Did they mobilize elsewhere, like San francisco or NYC?

 

[shane]

Preliminary test results are expected by the CDC on Tuesday. From article in post #3

It does not take that long.
They could and would know in well less than 24 hours.
If it was negative, they'd be eager to announce it and let all know.
If it was positive, they'd be more apt to say they did not know yet,
while they got and put resources into place, whatever they needed
to try and do before panic was unleashed.

Assume and act as if it was to be bad news, just to be safe.

- Shane

 

[Wise Owl]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/30/6162320/cdc-team-mobilizing-to-come-to.html

No confirmation, but CDC is mobilizing. That alarms me. Did they mobilize elsewhere, like San francisco or NYC?

How about copying the story to the board so we all will know. Stuff like this tends to disappear from news sites fast if they are told to get rid of it. Better to paste the whole deal here so we have references later. We all know how they spin stories to how they want them to sound, later on.

From your link.

Ebola unconfirmed, CDC coming to Dallas

A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is coming to Dallas in case a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital tests positive for Ebola, media partner WFAA reported from the Dallas County Commission meeting Tuesday.

Reporter Sebastian Robertson reported that the patient has not yet tested positive, but that a CDC team is mobilizing.

The patient, who came to the hospital on his or her own, according to Dallas County Health Director Zachary Thomas, is being kept in strict isolation at the hospital, according to a statement released Monday by the hospital. Thomas said in an interview with WFAA that the patient had traveled to Africa.

Dallas-Fort Worth Airport has no direct flights to and from Africa, so if the patient were flying, he or she would have had to make a connection elsewhere.

Ebola has affected more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected a handful of Americans who have traveled to that region.

Presbyterian Hospital released a statement Monday saying that officials there were following CDC recommendations to keep doctors, staff and patients safe.

The National Institutes of Health recently admitted an American doctor exposed to the virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone. Four other patients have been treated at hospitals in Georgia and Nebraska.

Star-Telegram reporters Monica Nagy and Andrea Ahles contributed to this report.

 

[mala]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/30/6162320/cdc-team-mobilizing-to-come-to.html

No confirmation, but CDC is mobilizing. That alarms me. Did they mobilize elsewhere, like San francisco or NYC?

They did once that I remember, and it was quite a while ago when a possible case was reported in Mexico City. That's the only other one I know of.

It's not surprising that they're taking some time to announce a result since the ebola testing often shows negative first, and then positive as the body builds an immune response.

 

[Littleolme]

Any news yet on the Test Results? It's going on noon time in Dallas.

They just said on Fox the test results would be known early afternoon..

 

[Dennis Olson]

Dallas hospital monitoring patient for potential Ebola infection

Dallas hospital monitoring patient for potential Ebola infection
Published September 29, 2014
Associated Press


DALLAS – A Dallas hospital says it is isolating a patient who is showing signs of having the Ebola virus.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a statement Monday night that the patient's symptoms and travel history suggest the patient may have Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa.

The hospital expects to receive preliminary test results Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Presbyterian Hospital says it's taking measures to keep its doctors, staff and patients safe.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...-potential-ebola-infection/?intcmp=latestnews

 

[Wise Owl]

Dupe......
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...oring-Patient-for-Ebola&p=5365375#post5365375

 

[msswv123]

but CDC is mobilizing


I don't think that's a good sign.

 

[shane]

For newbies, a good primer on what Ebola is, does
and what to acquire to protect one self is here...
http://www.ebolaready.com/

- Shane

 

[Adino]

a walk in w/ ebola that is already symptomatic in a major metro area is beyond absolutely serious imo

damn

pinch me i wanna wake up

 

[Countrymouse]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/30/6162320/cdc-team-mobilizing-to-come-to.html

No confirmation, but CDC is mobilizing. That alarms me. Did they mobilize elsewhere, like San francisco or NYC?

but CDC is mobilizing


I don't think that's a good sign.

What exactly does the article quoted "mean" when they say "CDC is mobilizing"?

Are they talking about the CDC "team" that is coming (or has arrived, by now) there, or something more? Some signs, for instance, that the hospital is being put under an even tighter quarantine, or that special HC workers are being designated and suited up differently (to the max, as they were here at Emory) to care for him, or something else?


Please give more information (with links & stories and / or pics, if you have them) as to what is meant by "CDC is mobilizing", if you can find it.


As a poster above noted, if CDC "is" doing this then it means the patient "is" positive.


And if he couldn't fly directly in---he PROBABLY CAME VIA HARTSFIELD---that's the major connection point for the entire SE or eastern U.S., I would think.

How many hours layover in whatever connecting airport
How many flights
How many PEOPLE on those flights (each and every ONE of them now a possible separate disease vector ALREADY spreading in their OWN areas)
How many people handled his LUGGAGE at the airport
How many restrooms did he use (and doorknobs touched) in the airport(s) and on the plane(s)
How many cabs did he take
How many buses did he ride
How many hotels did he stay in

AND

WHAT HAS HE BEEN DOING THE PAST 21 DAYS WHILE HERE---working, sleeping, traveling, eating out, going to church or social gatherings, commuting, shopping..........


(ETA)

This man may be our own "Patrick Sawyer."



God help us.

 

[homecanner1]

Rahm is setting the Chicago River on fire this Saturday in some halloween ritual festival " celebrating " the great Chicago Fire Tragedy. Ebola maybe in Texas. I really am starting to hate this movie folks.

 

[MtnGal]

I don't know the connecting flight this person took from Africa. Delta expanded its service to Africa in the spring with direct flights out of Atlanta.

If the flight was from Africa to Atlanta, that's an international airport, a very large city and a connecting flight to DFW. Lots of people to come in contact with if this is the route patient took.