HEALTH Possible Ebola Case in New Mexico, USA

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meandk0610

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Sorry if this is a dupe. I also posted some of it on the main Ebola thread.

Possible Ebola Case in New Mexico, USA

The New Mexico Department of Health is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to perform tests to rule out Ebola in a woman who developed a sore throat, headache, muscle aches and fever.

According to The New Mexico Department of Health, the 30-year-old woman recently visited Sierra Leone, Africa and returned to the United States earlier this month. Sierra Leone is one of several countries in West Africa with known cases of Ebola.


NM Department of Health working with CDC to rule out Ebola in UNMH patient



Created: 08/17/2014 3:27 PM
By: KOB.com Web Staff

The New Mexico Department of Health is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to perform tests to rule out Ebola in a woman who developed a sore throat, headache, muscle aches and fever.

According to The New Mexico Department of Health, the 30-year-old woman recently visited Sierra Leone, Africa and returned to the United States earlier this month. Sierra Leone is one of several countries in West Africa with known cases of Ebola.

The woman is currently at UNM Hospital in Albuquerque in stable condition. At this time the patient is not a probable case, but a person under investigation with no known exposures.

“UNM Hospital has isolated the patient, and is following the appropriate protocols to ensure other patients and health care workers are safe,” said Department of Health Cabinet Secretary Retta Ward, in a press release Sunday.

According to the CDC, Ebola poses no substantial risk to the U.S. general population. A person infected with Ebola virus is not contagious until symptoms appear. The virus is spread through direct contact with the body fluids of a person who is sick with Ebola and is not spread through the air or by food or water.

For more information visit, http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/.

Stay with KOB.com for updates on this story.

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ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
naturallysweet said:
I'm sure she will test negative. As will the next 1,000 people who die of Ebola.
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The most depressing part of that statement is that, although cynical and pessimisic, it is probably TRUE, at least until the bodies start stacking up in the streets and denial is absurd.
 
Melodi

Melodi

Disaster Cat
Marthanoir said:
Yup it'll be another case of Nobola, easily confused as the symptoms are the same :whistle: :popcorn1:
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You win for inventing Nobola, but I still have the fame of eventing Mount Unpronounceable in Iceland (which drives my husband nuts since it sort of went viral, I suspect I'm not the only one to come up with it and he says it is easy to say but then he reads and speaks Old Norse and Icelandic...).
 
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poppy

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How many people in the US have been tested or isolated so far and how many cases have been found? Articles like the op are nothing but scare tactics. The woman has been in a country where Ebola is present, had no known contacts, is not likely ill with Ebola, and yet someone writes a scare piece. With today's air travel, I am surprised no one has shown up with it here. Please don't spread garbage about people dying from it here and claim the government is not telling us. If they were, the government wouldn't need to tell us. Surviving relatives would be spreading the word far and wide and, believe it or not, the news media would be on such stories like a duck on a June Bug.
 
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Shacknasty Shagrat

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Insightful post, Melodi
Words mean things, though the facts may be true or untrue.
The ploy, at this time, seems to misdiagnose 'malaria' and 'Ebola'. The symptoms are nearly identical for the onset of infection.
And, a government employee can truthfully say that no Ebola cases have been reported or treated, just a nasty strain of malaria.
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