CRISIS Grim Ebola prediction: Outbreak is unstoppable for now, doc says

[Dennis Olson]

I have no problem with domestic, city-dwelling blacks. I DO have a huge problem with ghetto-******s.

 

[TxGal]

Grandson called and said to come get him. They told him he's dehydrated and to drink Pedialyte and eat Popsicles, or wait 10 hours for a room. Sounds like they are swamped. He can't keep anything down. He's been drinking Gatorade which is like Pedialyte and it all comes right back up. I've been going to the ER in Beaumont for a long time, and I've never heard of them wearing mask in the waiting room. I'm not saying it's an Ebola outbreak, but it shows the health system is freaked out if they are wearing mask at the ER intake area because the room is full of puking people. I'll go over to talk to Grandson later to see how he's doing and ask more questions on what was really going on there.

It does sound like norovirus. My DD and I had it a few years ago, it's truly nasty. For the first 24-48 hrs or so, DD couldn't even keep popsicles down. We didn't have Pedialyte at the time, but I vaguely remember sipping flat Coke on day 2. I'm really surprised they didn't give him IV fluids since he was already there and obviously dehydrated. Hopefully your son won't get it, if it is norovirus it's very contagious.

Since they're masking up, they know there is something - or multiple somethings - very contagious out there.

 

[Txkstew]

Please give us an update when you can and let us know how he is & what the situation at the hospital is. This is very concerning.

My Son took his Nephew to the other major hospital ER today. They put him in a room pretty quick. Still haven't heard what he has. Nothing on the local news about any hospital overload. I'm sure not going to make a special trip to see for myself.

 

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/07/health/respiratory-virus-midwest/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

A respiratory virus is sending hundreds of children to hospitals in Missouri and possibly throughout the Midwest and beyond, officials say.

The unusually high number of hospitalizations reported now could be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," said Mark Pallansch, a virologist and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Viral Diseases.

"We're in the middle of looking into this," he told CNN on Sunday. "We don't have all the answers yet."

Ten states have contacted the CDC for assistance in investigating clusters of enterovirus -- Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky.

Enteroviruses, which bring on symptoms like a very intense cold, aren't unusual. They're actually common. When you have a bad summer cold, often what you have is an enterovirus, he said. The season often hits its peak in September.