Still scary MK.

I agree scary :(

Wash you hands everyone.

First thing I heard on the radio this morning, they say there's no spreading danger, let's hope so...

No spreading danger until someone hops on board a plane to visit relatives in another country. Oh hang on a minute, that's what happened:

According to Dr Frieden, the unnamed patient left Liberia on 19 September and arrived in the US the next day to visit relatives, without displaying any symptoms of the virus.

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Isn't the middle east supposed to be out of oil by now? I read twenty years ago that there was only about ten years worth of oil left in that region.

The was ten years worth twenty years ago, there's ten years worth today and there'll still be ten years worth in another twenty years.

Amazing what those new fuel efficiency standards have done .........

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Isn't the middle east supposed to be out of oil by now? I read twenty years ago that there was only about ten years worth of oil left in that region.

The was ten years worth twenty years ago, there's ten years worth today and there'll still be ten years worth in another twenty years.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Still scary MK.

I agree scary :(

Wash you hands everyone.

First thing I heard on the radio this morning, they say there's no spreading danger, let's hope so...

And that is a load of BS.

They just say that to comfort people is what I think...

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Still scary MK.

I agree scary :(

Wash you hands everyone.

First thing I heard on the radio this morning, they say there's no spreading danger, let's hope so...

And that is a load of BS.

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Still scary MK.

I agree scary :(

Wash you hands everyone.

First thing I heard on the radio this morning, they say there's no spreading danger, let's hope so...

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"The patient is believed to have had a handful of contacts with people after showing symptoms of the virus, and before being hospitalized, Frieden said. A CDC team is en route to Texas to investigate those contacts."

Thanks Lynn, for a moment, I thought James could be right, a runaway train with no one at the controls. Those contacts & 3 days...

And what have I been saying all along? That all flights out of infected countrys should be quarantined.
So Now its in our backyard. Wonderfull.
And one of the reports I read that he went to the hospital and was sent home. So now we have more people exposed to Ebola. Wonderfull again.
Just think about how many people you interact with in a normal day.
Now wonder who was exposed to ebola.
And what EU country will be next?

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Still scary MK.

I agree scary :(

Wash you hands everyone.

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Still scary MK.

Yes, Sirus, it *IS*.

Especially knowing the hospital he is in. I've been there visiting patients a few times over the years. Not... Impressed...

I'm glad I moved away from Dallas about a year ago.

Still scary MK.

Arrived 20/9 symptoms started showing by 25/9, hospitalised on 28/9...

...scary, what about the three days in between? Anyone else in contact with the patient?

Well, from what I just saw on CNN, yes, he arrived from Liberia on Sept. 20th.
He got sick on Sept. 24th.
He sought medical help at the hospital on the 24th, and again on the 26th.
On the 28th, he was finally admitted into the isolation ward.

Other people exposed? Well other than his friends and family he was visiting, there is also all the health care workers that dealt with him from the 24th to the 28th before they thought he might have Ebola.

Good luck tracing out ALL of his contacts.

What a fuster cluck. Pucker Factor 9.5.

IMO, time to seal the international borders of the USA, nobody leaves without quarantine. Restrict travel inside the USA. And wait for about 6 weeks (the max 3 week incubation period of the Virus, plus the additional 3 weeks that males can be contagious after recovery).

No new cases in that time, we likely would have dodged the bullet... this time.

"The patient is believed to have had a handful of contacts with people after showing symptoms of the virus, and before being hospitalized, Frieden said. A CDC team is en route to Texas to investigate those contacts."

Thanks Lynn, for a moment, I thought James could be right, a runaway train with no one at the controls. Those contacts & 3 days...

Ebola confirmed in Texas patient; First case diagnosed in U.S.

Last Updated Sep 30, 2014 6:28 PM EDT

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first case of Ebola virus diagnosed in United States. The patient, still not identified, had recently flown here from Liberia to visit family, officials said. He was admitted on Monday to an isolation unit at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas to be tested for Ebola after he began exhibiting symptoms.

"This is the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S., and the first case of this strain of Ebola diagnosed outside Africa," CDC Director Tom Frieden said at a news conference Tuesday evening.

Frieden sought to reassure the public, stating "I have no doubt that we will control this importation, this case of Ebola, so it will not spread widely in this country."

Frieden said the patient left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in the United States the next day to visit family. He was not experiencing symptoms at the time, and therefore would not have been contagious to any other travelers. "There is zero risk of transmission on the flight," Frieden said. "Ebola doesn't spread before someone gets sick, and he didn't get sick until four days after he got off the airplane. So we don't believe there was any risk to anyone on the flight." He declined to release any details about the man's itinerary or flight numbers.

Ebola cannot be transmitted through the air, but only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of people who are infected and exhibiting symptoms.

Frieden said the patient started to develop symptoms on Sept. 24, initially sought treatment on Sept. 26, and was admitted to the hospital in Dallas on Sept. 28, where he was placed in isolation. He was tested for Ebola on Monday and the results came back positive today.

"We will contact anyone we think has any likelihood of having had contact with the patient when he was infectious," Frieden said, presumably starting with the relatives the patient was visiting. He said the process of tracing those contacts was still in the early stages.

The virus has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected a handful of American health care workers who were working in the region.

In August, American missionary Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantley contracted Ebola at the treatment center where they were working in Liberia. Both were flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in strict medical isolation and both recovered. A third patient, Dr. Rick Sacra, was also evacuated from West Africa and treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he recovered earlier this month.

The CDC has said 12 other people in the U.S. have been tested for Ebola since late July, including a man at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, but all of those tests came back negative.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-confirmed-in-texas-patient-first-case-diagnosed-in-u-s/

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(CNN) -- A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.

The person, whose identity was not released, left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC.

At that time, the person did not have symptoms. "But four or five days later," that person began to show symptoms, Frieden said. The person was hospitalized and isolated Sunday at a hospital in Texas.

Frieden sought to play down the risk to public health.

"It's a severe disease, which has a high case fatality rate, even with the best of care, but there are core, tried and true public health interventions that stop it," he said of Ebola.

"The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country," Frieden said.

A number of other Americans have been diagnosed with the disease in West Africa and then brought to the United States for treatment.

The person who first tested positive for Ebola in the United States is a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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Arrived 20/9 symptoms started showing by 25/9, hospitalised on 28/9...

...scary, what about the three days in between? Anyone else in contact with the patient?

That report is a bit misleading. Was it contracted in Liberia or the US?

Of course it is ambiguous. The reporter couldn't figure out a way to ask the virus when and where it entered the human it now infests.

The incubation period, that is, the time interval from infection with the virus to onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days.

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That report is a bit misleading. Was it contracted in Liberia or the US?

It's here :(

CDC: First diagnosed case of Ebola in the U.S.

(CNN) -- A patient being treated at a Dallas, Texas, hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.

Several other Americans were diagnosed in West Africa and then brought to the United States for treatment.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/09/29/north-texas-hospital-evaluating-patient-for-potential-ebola-exposure/

For those that think that Ebola will not make it to the USA, it may already have.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas hospital has a patient in isolation as they evaluate them for potential exposure to the Ebola virus.

Officials with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas released the following statement Monday night:

“Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has admitted a patient into strict isolation to be evaluated for potential Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) based on the patient’s symptoms and recent travel history. The hospital is following all Centers for Disease Control and Texas Department of Heath recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, hospital staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors. The CDC anticipates preliminary results tomorrow.”

Ebola Update:

UN's Ebola virus HQ in Ghana opens

The UN mission to combat Ebola opened its headquarters on Monday in Ghana, where it will coordinate aid for the accelerating West African crisis.

The spread of Ebola has spiralled into the worst ever outbreak, and the World Health Organization says it is has linked more than 3,000 deaths to the disease, although that is likely an underestimate of the true toll.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/un-s-ebola-virus-hq-in-ghana-opens-1.2781142

Some good news about Ebola: It won’t spread nearly as fast as other epidemics

As a mathematical epidemiologist, I can tell you there is some good news in the Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa. This Ebola is not spreading nearly as fast as some scourges of the past.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/29/some-good-news-about-ebola-it-wont-spread-nearly-as-fast-as-other-epidemics/

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