US Ebola Patient Exposed School Age Children, Governor Said
Source: ABC NEWS
Oct 1, 2014, 1:19 PM ET
By SYDNEY LUPKIN
School-aged children in Texas may have been exposed to Ebola by the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States, officials said today.
The children had contact with the patient and are being monitored at home, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said today in a press conference.
"Let me assure you, these children have been identified and are being monitored," the governor said.
"This is all hands on deck," Perry said.
The country's top medical official who has vowed to stop Ebola "in its tracks" in the U.S., conceded today that it's "not impossible" that others will contract the disease.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/impossible-us-contract-ebola-cdc-head/story?id=25885934
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)The Dallas hospital screwed up horribly by letting the sick patient go home.
Geoff R. Casavant
(2,381 posts)Early Ebola symptoms are flu-like. If a patient comes in with flu-like symptoms, in the United States, it makes little sense to test for Ebola.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)had come from Liberia. He told at least one hospital employee but the information didn't get passed on.
In the US, hospitals are supposed to test for Ebola when a patient arrives with flu symptoms, if that person has recently been traveling in Liberia.
Geoff R. Casavant
(2,381 posts)I was not aware he had informed the nurse of his travel when I responded. Yeah, that changes things for sure.
I wonder if there will now be a new protocol when a patient presents flu-like symptoms, to ask of any recent travel.
woodsprite
(11,940 posts)if you'd been traveling. They had a list of countries that they ran down. You had a list that you filled out on the intake paperwork, then we were asked again by the nurse, and again by the doctor. We were there because hubby was short of breath, was breaking out into a cold sweat, and couldn't keep still. It was a reaction to his sinus meds.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)supposed to inform Liberian authorities that he had had close contact with an Ebola patient before boarding the plane? They took his temp--apparently normal, but if he failed to inform them of his exposure, the fault is his.
pnwmom
(109,021 posts)They also screwed up by letting the ambulance stay in service for 2 days after he was finally admitted into the hospital.
And the CDC still hasn't figured out how to dispose of the mountains of virulent medical waste each patient produces.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)pnwmom
(109,021 posts)Even Emory University hospital (the hospital that treated Dr. Brantley) did not -- they ended up sending their waste to the CDC, which happened to be in the same city.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)... are more reliable than the ones shifting the toxic waste products from fracking ...
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Iamthetruth
(487 posts)So you're blaming the fact that the person who was infected went to the hospital told them he was in Liberia and was sent home on the 600MM that was cut and not complete fucking incompetence on the employees at the hospital?
IDemo
(16,926 posts)But potentially for the fallout if Ebola winds up being far more widespread than the Pollyannas are advising.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Perhaps this will be a big wake-up call...assuming it doesn't go pandemic on our stupid asses.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Freedumb.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Trillo
(9,154 posts)where they began, who was in contact, etc., I find myself wondering, if you pass a deadly disease onto someone, why does that someone have to pay for medical treatment or copays, instead of the person who gave you the disease?
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Though I believe they have to know they are carriers, and then not share that knowledge with partners beforehand.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Excellent.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)If they develop stomach distress and a fever, they will be staying at home not going straight to the doctor's office. In the case of anyone infected with Ebola who is without insurance, they will likely be trying to go on with their lives while already showing symptoms and infecting others.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Most jobs doesn't offer sick time or are extremely stingy with it. So most people will just go to work sick.
DotGone
(182 posts)In the places I worked, calling in sick gets you a demerit on your record. 3 call outs within a 12 month span and you were gone. 2 call outs got you a negative review and no raise (however crappy they were). Missing days also meant missing $$$. Needless to say, those places were a germ bank.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)there's just so much he can't do. He's a perfect example of a Teapublican Renaissance man
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Some one f--ed this up big time. Oh,forgot,it's Obama's fault.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Number of Ebola infections in the US under Bush: 0
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)isn't responsible for there being no ban on travel from Liberia, and doesn't run the hospital that gave the patient antibiotics and let him go, I don't think this is one you can blame on Perry. Sorry.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)If Ebola were ever to become a real problem in the West, it would be thanks to incompetent B.S. like this.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)Kablooie
(18,645 posts)they may not go to a hospital until the illness is very advanced.
During this time they Will be contagious and could infect other people who would spread the infection further.
Also there are some people who are stubborn and won't go to a doctor until they absolutely have to.
The fact that our big hospitals are prepared for the disease doesn't mean that smaller rural hospitals will be too.
The comment from the CDC that the chance of an epidemic are close to zero may indicate a different concept of zero than the one we are used to.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that goes to work sick, cooks, and boom, you have an outbreak. And you know they will go to work sick because they need the money.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)It isn't typhoid.
It spreads like AIDS or hepatitis, by contact with blood and other bodily fluids. It is not airborne and will not become so.
The hysteria over this is breathtaking.