Posted on 02/26/2015 10:35:23 AM PST by palmer
(Updated at 10:35 a.m.) Arlington County medics, firefighters and the hazmat team are on the scene of a Clarendon apartment building for a potential case of Ebola.
The call came in just after 9:30 this morning, for a possible Ebola patient in the new Beacon at Clarendon apartment building at 1128 N. Irving Street. According to ACFD spokeswoman Lt. Sarah Marchegiani, the department dispatches an Ebola response out of an abundance of caution when a sick person has a travel history and symptoms consistent with a case of the deadly virus.
“While it’s unlikely it’s Ebola, the fire department and the responding hospital are taking all appropriate precautions,” Marchegiani told ARLnow.com.
As of 10:30 a.m., the patient had been transported to Virginia Hospital Center. No definitive diagnosis has been made at this point. Building management declined to comment.
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Maybe you should have said measles.
People are kind of ho hum about ebola these days.
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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...
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Yes take me off ping. Don’t need another show with gay sex in my face!
“No way do I have Ebola—”
(Pukes blood all over the floor)
“Hope I feel better after that! Man, do I gotta crap!”
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
(Virginia is just across the river, of course.)
“While it’s unlikely it’s Ebola, the fire department and the responding hospital are taking all appropriate precautions,”....
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Those ambo guys do not appear dressed for such.
I have no idea what you are talking about, but I removed you from the ping list.
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