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New Patient ‘Screened Positive’ For Ebola At Baylor Hospital, Testing Not Confirmed
CBS DFW ^ | 10-17-2014 | CBS DFW

Posted on 10/17/2014 10:54:58 AM PDT by tcrlaf

On Friday morning Baylor Hospital in Dallas confirmed a patient with ‘ebola similar symptoms’ also triggered a positive on a verbal screening questionnaire.

Although a positive blood test has not been confirmed, sources says it’s not unusual to have a patient screen positive considering the wider net for ebola now over Dallas. A positive screening means the patient met some of the criteria to cause concern.

A source at Baylor Hospital Dallas says the patient came to the Emergency Room through a private entrance and went straight to isolation.The source says Baylor transferred the person to Presbyterian Hospital a short while later.

A spokeswoman at Presbyterian read a statement to 1080 KRLD reporter L.P. Phillips on behalf of Texas Health Presbyterian spokesman Wendell Watson saying the hospital does not have a transfer patient – but could not say whether the patient was treated and released.


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21 posted on 10/17/2014 2:04:31 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: steve86

Guatemala find it yourself


22 posted on 10/17/2014 2:12:23 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: rolling_stone
Claim is false.

Fueling speculation in part was a research article published in 2013 in Virology Journal titled "Human rhinoviruses and enteroviruses in influenza-like illness in Latin America." That study was often referenced in such rumors despite the fact it did not specifically address a higher prevalence of such illnesses in the Central/Latin America region. Many readers mistakenly conflated the location of the study's participants with the location of an epidemic or geographic predilection for contracting and transmitting the virus, when in actuality Latin America was simply the place from which data was collected for the research.

The rumor was addressed by MLive after the claim spread heavily in Michigan. Experts explained that Enterovirus strains have been in the United States for more than 50 years, with EV-D68 first being detected in 1987: Enterovirus was first detected in the United States in 1962, according to the CDC. The specific EV-D68 strain was first detected in 1987, said Eden Wells, Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

"I think that this really sort of argues against the fact that this is a new virus introduced by anybody," Wells said.

Dr. Matthew Davis, the state's Chief Medical Executive with the Michigan Department of Community Health, said that "While it's theoretically possible that someone from any part of the world can bring an infection to another part of the world, it seems unlikely that children from Central America have brought this particular enterovirus strain into the United States." --snopes


23 posted on 10/17/2014 2:19:54 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86
I cruise the internet every day and go to very many sites. I know that I have seen this connection mentioned. Looking for something to show you, I found this from The American Thinker:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/connecting_the_dots_on_enterovirus_evd68_spreading_among_our_children.html

24 posted on 10/17/2014 2:24:49 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: steve86

Snopes? ROFLMAO might as well ask Obama his opinion


25 posted on 10/17/2014 2:25:25 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: steve86

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2555316/


26 posted on 10/17/2014 2:28:11 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: rolling_stone; LibertarianLiz
LOL You show me an article from 1960 before D68 had been discovered!!!!! (and another article that claims finding D68 in Central America in 2013 means that it came to the US in 2014, although D68 was first in the United States in 1962!)
27 posted on 10/17/2014 3:49:18 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: rolling_stone

Ad Hominem. Try debate.


28 posted on 10/17/2014 3:53:24 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86

I suggest you read the original article and see if you can pick up on anything from it before you start yapping. thank you


29 posted on 10/17/2014 4:07:00 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: steve86

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/cdc-speaks-on-enterovirus-link-to-illegal-alien-kids/


30 posted on 10/17/2014 4:11:59 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


31 posted on 10/17/2014 7:59:21 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: steve86

Don’t yell at me you troll.


32 posted on 10/18/2014 10:43:56 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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