Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola

CNN.com ^ | 10/12/2014 | Cnn.com

[ican'tbelieveit]

It will play out one of two ways. This person was either treating Mr. Duncan the first ER visit, before they knew he had Ebola.

Or, and this is my guess, the hospital will blame the employee for not following “strict” containment and sterile procedures. Staff will be retrained.

Either way, their policies will not be at fault.

Until another person comes down with it.

[Jim Noble]

Can you merge this with the other thread?

[PghBaldy]

FluTrackers.com @FluTrackers · 4m 4 minutes ago
Varga: This patients was wearing PPE per CDC directions when in contact with Duncan. Very concerned that this worker was infected. #ebola

FluTrackers.com @FluTrackers · 6m 6 minutes ago
Varga: Health care worker infected in Duncan’s 2nd hospital visit. #ebola

[3catsanadog]

I don’t know if hospitals keep “the space suits” in supply. I’ve never seen one at the hospital I work at. We have the yellow gowns and gloves and masks and PAPR equipment if we have a patient with TB or waiting for the lab to rule out TB. But I’m not aware of any biohazard protective gear being in stock just in case.

[BobL]

“I’d almost agree, but when the potential fatality rate from Ebola is around 70%, that has to override all political considerations.”

To Democrats NOTHING overrides politics. We will not even lift a finger on this until the November elections are over, and it will be another month after that if Baby Fat is still viable in her Senate race.

[Mamzelle]

I’m not condemning the hospital admin, just observing that they are probably doing a lot if testing if personnel. I do condemn the government—they are going to create a panic through earning public distrust.

[tomkat]

Contaminated air? I thought ebola wasn’t airborne.

Not having a go at you, but . . . believing much of anything originating from or connected to .gov at this point is, imho, rather naive.

[ecomcon]

Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects such as needles. People are not contagious before symptoms such as fever develop.

Or not.

[LibsRJerks]

Yep.... Once we either designate certain hospitals as “Ebola treatment centers” , care at other hospitals will be limited to non existent ... Forget that triple bypass , that emergency appendectomy... Or what have you .. No beds available .....

This is assuming that our government even has the sense to quarantine within the hospital system ....

Good luck recruiting anyone to treat Ebola pts now ....

What a freaking mess ... and it was all preventable

Really kills me because as a health care provider. We are constNtly urged to be pro-active and stress prevention over all else ....

[matt1234]

Contagion on American soil. Completely preventable with a pre-Duncan flight ban. obama, the dems and their open borders policy are to blame. I hope the dems get pulverized on election day.

[TomGuy]

RE: DSHS press release:

"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services.

How many of the original 100 prospects are still being monitored? Was this healthcare worker even one of the original 100?

If DSHS knew a second case could be a reality, how many more cases do they suspect they might have -- directly and indirectly related to Dallas Patient Zero?

[Paul R.]

Hi, Mom MD,

Can anyone answer these questions:

Is an incubation period of 2-21 days an unusually wide range of time for a disease to become symptomatic? (Basically, it’s a 10 to one ratio...)

Is it likely that genetic factors enter into the incubation period, resistance to the virus, etc.? Ie., maybe Duncan’s entire family is more resistant or tends toward longer incubation times, than some others (like the Texas healthcare worker)?

Are the mortality rates generally stated for individuals who become symptomatic? Is there any data on exposure vs. development of symptoms? Ie., how many people exposed, and at what level(s), typically become ill?

Perhaps persons from areas of the world (or descended from areas of the world) that Ebola or an Ebola-like virus has been around in for a long time* have better resistance to infection or development of symptoms?

*I know Ebola has only been “recognized” since 1976, but who knows how long it has actually been around...

I know some of these are probably “dumb” questions, but better to ask than stay ignorant... :-)

[Paul R.]

Ah, I forgot to ask that (below) - thanks for the info.

[upchuck]

This could be the event that breaks our health care system

Wasn't that the job of nobamacare?

[OleShep]

I see 3 freep posts on this. I heard it on radio so came here.

I knew there’d be a lot more ebola patients in USA. Thats the Agenda21 plan. This has nothing to do with US govt being unable to protect us - they DONT WANT to protect us. Even the CDC has been lying to us.

Vitamin C, colloidal silver, acidophyllus !

I wonder if an image would work?

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[jetson]

Is it likely that genetic factors enter into the incubation period, resistance to the virus, etc.? Ie., maybe Duncan’s entire family is more resistant or tends toward longer incubation times, than some others (like the Texas healthcare worker)?"

Mutating to adjust to all of the sweet white meat here in the USA.

[CMB_polarization]

Ebola: Health care worker tests positive at Texas hospital

"People who had contact with the health care worker after symptoms emerged will be monitored ..."

[Paul R.]

Please don’t do the “victim thing” before it even happens: It’d be equal opportunity criticism (if it does - hopefully not - happen in the UK). Right now, the self-criticism in the US from the sources you mention is pretty heavy, and this thing is just getting started, I fear.

Heck, we “racist” FReepers generally acknowledge that some of the African leaders have responded with more common sense than our own. Granted, that is not an especially high bar.

[tomkat]

The other thread was apparently locked in the interim between hitting 'post reply' and composing same.

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Those three guys appear to be actual grownups, in 180° contrast to the lawn jøckey and all the kneepad children still moronically enthralled by the PoS.

The gentlemen pictured certainly don't look happy, do they ? !

Don't know any of 'em from Adam, but the guy on the left looks like someone you want on your side when the fightin' eventually breaks out.

[Art in Idaho]

Read somewhere 150 a day are still flying in daily from hot zones. Of course, they're being 'screened' but if they had just been exposed before they left and the incubation period is 2 to 21 days with maybe the average symptoms starting 8-10 days after exposure. . . .