First US Ebola diagnosed in Dallas

[dottiesyrky]

This guy got the virus while traveling to Liberia and was only recently diagnosed.
Don't they quarantine people who come to the US from there?
They are now contacting any people he had contact with. He was not involved with treating patients. Scary!

[KazzyK810]

With so much international travel it was inevitable. It seems like most new viruses start with cold/flu like symptoms, and so aren't recognized immediately upon contraction. Scary! It makes me a little paranoid about anyone coughing & sneezing in public.

[matese]

I just saw this on the 6 o'clock news, I pray this is the first and last I hear on this virus.

[matese]

wow, I just googled systums of Ebola, this is what I found
Ebola Virus Diagnosed in U.S. Patient in Texas After Travel From Liberia,




CDC Confirms

this hit google 47 minutes ago.


Modern technology is awesome

[TxVicki]

I'm from the DFW Area and I'm so tried of it being on all the TV Channels !!
Heck they even interupted the World New's for the Local Press Conference from the Hospital on it.

This was bound to happen with all the International Travel that goes on.

[Wylie's Mom]

This was always inevitable, most esp given the extent of the current outbreak in Africa. He only would've been contagious when he was symptomatic, in Ebola's case...which is a very good thing. Also, Ebola isn't an air-borne disease which is also very lucky for us. I think we will hear of more and more of these cases bc of travel and bc the disease is still so active in Africa currently...it's just bound to happen.

I'm super glad that the vaccine did apparently work for that guy in Atlanta bc that means a lot of hope for those who get Ebola here in the US. My guess is that it will be made available on a case-by-case basis and/or they may tap that doctor for his antibodies against the disease since he got the vaccine.

[yorkietalkjilly]

What makes me so furious is I had a diagnostic mammogram in early September at Cass Imaging at Baylor University Hospital Dallas and was TWICE asked if I had a fever and about my travel history to Africa - once on a form placed on each of the patient check-in desks and again by the Patient Intake worker. And I was just going in for a breast test. I can only imagine what an interface in the ER with flu-like symptoms would be like at Baylor!

Wonder why in the world Presby never asked this guy his travel history once he presented with flu-like symptoms?!?!?! That just burns me up as the media is reporting he was never asked about his travel history and Presbyterian Hospital Dallas isn't refuting that shameful allegation so far. Betcha they are asking now! I just hope their lack of sound clinical practices doesn't cost someone a horrible, possible fatal case of Ebola.

The difference in hospital protocols just amazes me and one reason I always go to Baylor Dallas, given a choice.

My prayers go out to that patient in Presbyterian Hospital, his family, hospital personnel and all who had contact with him during those 4 days he was contagious and not in isolation.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

This was always inevitable, most esp given the extent of the current outbreak in Africa. He only would've been contagious when he was symptomatic, in Ebola's case...which is a very good thing. Also, Ebola isn't an air-borne disease which is also very lucky for us. I think we will hear of more and more of these cases bc of travel and bc the disease is still so active in Africa currently...it's just bound to happen.

I'm super glad that the vaccine did apparently work for that guy in Atlanta bc that means a lot of hope for those who get Ebola here in the US. My guess is that it will be made available on a case-by-case basis and/or they may tap that doctor for his antibodies against the disease since he got the vaccine.

Oh, I heard they are out of the vaccine! I heard a couple of epidemiologists on TV yesterday who said there is no more Z-Mapp for now and while two people given it lived, two others died, but who knows what kind of disease management and support the latter two poor patients had. I read that it worked 100% on the 18 monkeys with a full, lethal load of the virus who were given it, the best result of any other drug so far, though that's no assurance it will work in humans until clinical trials are done. But at least there is ongoing work to develop more of it and other types of Ebola vaccines. Hopefully one day soon we get one that can be relatively quickly developed, tested and mass-produced.

It just looks like one of the worst diseases there is for those who progress to the hemorrhagic phase. I don't think the US or other first world countries around the world will have anywhere near the kind of raging outbreaks as they have in Western Africa.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Dallas TV reporters have tracked the apartment complex down where the Ebola patient was staying in NE Dallas down. The Dallas Police just rolled onto the scene there.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson confirms there may be a second case of Ebola in a close family member of Patient #1. They are monitoring a second person.

[thelittleyorkie]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

This was always inevitable, most esp given the extent of the current outbreak in Africa. He only would've been contagious when he was symptomatic, in Ebola's case...which is a very good thing. Also, Ebola isn't an air-borne disease which is also very lucky for us. I think we will hear of more and more of these cases bc of travel and bc the disease is still so active in Africa currently...it's just bound to happen.

I'm super glad that the vaccine did apparently work for that guy in Atlanta bc that means a lot of hope for those who get Ebola here in the US. My guess is that it will be made available on a case-by-case basis and/or they may tap that doctor for his antibodies against the disease since he got the vaccine.

Isn't Ebola transferred only by bodily fluids?

[Yorkiemom1]

Originally Posted by thelittleyorkie

Isn't Ebola transferred only by bodily fluids?

That is what they say.....doesnt explain to me why docs that are specifically trained to work around these patients, are dressed in isolation hazmat suits, covered head to foot, with no exposed skin whatsoever, still manage to get the disease. And any nurse on here knows very few doctors ever get "down and dirty" handling body fluids....the nurses are left to that task.....

Now here is something to think about.....neighbors said that man was vomiting all over the sidewalk and driveway as they were loading him into the ambulance....so lets just say someone took a water hose and washed down the vomit from the sidewalk and driveway....that went straight into the street gutter, down the drainage gutter and into the maze under the street, eventually ending up in the water resoivar system, where the water moves into the sewage treatment/ water treatment plant, where it is treated and processed and sent out as purified, treated drinking water.....or it washes into some lake system, where swimmers and anyone exposed to the lake water, come into direct contact with the ebola virus that is now in the water system. If I lived in ANY area where there are cases of ebola, I would be drinking bottled water......

.........just a thought..........

[Yorkiemom1]

They are now saying the list of people he came in contact has grown up to 80-100....he must have been a very busy man in the 4 days that he became "symptomatic".....

[dottiesyrky]

The plot thickens! He is now being prosecuted for lying to authorities. It is said he carried a person dying from Ebola hours before getting on a plane to TX!! Also his family did not stay in the house as ordered. Hope this is not true!!

[dottiesyrky]

He carried the Ebola woman hours before she died, and 4 days later he flew to Dallas.