Person in Dane County being monitored for possible Ebola symptoms

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[Ellendra]

MADISON, Wis. - A person in Dane County is being monitored for possible Ebola symptoms, public health officials said Wednesday.

Public Health Madison & Dane County spokeswoman Amy Vieth said any travelers from West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been monitored as a policy since last fall.

Approximately 30 people who traveled from those countries and returned to Dane County have been monitored by PHMDC, which means the agency checked in with those travelers daily to see if they were exhibiting symptoms of Ebola.

Meriter Hospital officials told News 3 Wednesday afternoon that a person was brought to Meriter on Monday when they became symptomatic. The patient is being monitored in an "enhanced isolation unit" for possible Ebola according to national protocols.

"It's important to immediately isolate the patient to eliminate any potential exposure to health care workers or the public," Meriter Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. Geoff Priest said. "Once we have the patient isolated we keep them in a very strict enhanced isolation environment until we can confirm the disease is not present."

Meriter officials said the patient was given a baseline Ebola test on Monday, which came back negative.

The person will be tested again in a few days, but they will still be monitored for 21 days even if the test comes back negative, officials said.

[Ellendra]

Hopefully another false alarm, but this is too close for me!

[Ellendra]

Pinging the Wisconsin and BOYD lists!

[afraidfortherepublic]

Ebolal scare in Dane County (Madison, WI)

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[broken_arrow1]

Ebola is so out, we are on to other important things...like measles.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BTTT!

[Captain7seas]

Well if it’s not ebola he has...what is it?

[rabidralph]

A bad case of the Mondays.

[RicocheT]

Is plague and pestilence in Dane County, WI a bad thing? It’s Berkeley Mid-West, home to smug socialist leftists unionistas and Gov. Scott Walker haters.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Is plague and pestilence in Dane County, WI a bad thing?”

Um...YES, LOL! I live & and work there! Someone has to run the Underground to thwart the LibTards! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ panicked for a few days, there.

Now they can go back to more important matters such as hating Jews, harboring illegals, cheering for ISIS and cramming high speed rail down the Taxpayers throats.

(Wish I were kidding, Folks!)

[RicocheT]

Diana in Dane, paint the words “TED CRUZ” in red over your front door and the angel of death will spare your household.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! Can’t hurt, might help! :)

[Morpheus2009]

Or THE FLU!!!!

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

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If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!