Posted on 10/01/2014 7:24:10 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Oct 1 (Reuters) - All three members of Dallas ambulance crew exposed to a patient who developed Ebola have tested negative for the virus, the City of Dallas said on Wednesday. The crew members have been quarantined. They will be closely monitored for the next 21 days, the city said on its Twitter feed.
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Are they going to quarantine the hundreds or thousands of people he came into contact with while he was traveling, in the ER, and then sent home for two days with only antibiotics?
That’s good to hear...
Okay, so the crew who handled one patient are sidelined for 21 days. this seems to be setting us up for a serious deficit in emergency care if there are even a few cases of Ebola nationwide.
good for them...that would be some anxious waiting (for results) time...
Now we learn the horrible news that the liberian was sent home sick for 4 days from his first dallas hospital visit!! That had to infect others. The ambulance crew has been quarantined because of possible air transmission in my opinion.
That just means they are negative now. Does not mean they wont come down with the illness, just that they cannot detect it at this point.....
They tested negative. Yet they quarantine them for 21 days anyway. The test results are worthless.
What about subsequent patients, who rode in the same ambulance? Have they been tested? Are they being *closely monitored*?
This is also precisely why our nation should not facilitate a pandemic by flying Ebola patients here. They should be treated in-place.
Exactly. Early tests are not accurate
It may be too early for a positive result, if they were infected.
Isn’t it a little early yet to claim the didn’t test positive? They may not test positive the first time, but a few days from now that could change.
What about the other people he came into contact with? Are they being quarantined and monitored, too?
For a good brief on Ebola read “The Hot Zone” by Preston Richards.
Should be required reading by the entire US.
It should be known that the Ebola virus has 7 proteins of which 4 are unknown
What an idiotic report. Of course they tested negative. They were only exposed on Sunday.
I can’t seriously believe they wasted money testing them so soon.
Has the ambulance ITSELF been tested?
You know he is probably living in a “family” house with 10-15 other Liberians.
Found this at the end of another report:
“The illness has an average 8-10 day incubation period (although it ranges from 2 to 21 days); CDC recommends monitoring exposed people for symptoms a complete 21 days. People are not contagious after exposure unless they develop symptoms.”
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