I have already had people say this. I’ve been told by other bloggers that I waste too much of my site time on the topic. It will never go anywhere except Africa.
Of course it won’t.
From dfw.cbslocal.com:
CDC Confirms Patient In Dallas Has The Ebola Virus
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Officials with the Centers for Disease Control have confirmed that a person in Dallas definitely has the Ebola virus. Tuesday’s official determination makes the Dallas patient the first diagnosed Ebola case in the United States.
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are holding a press conference now. CDC Director Thomas Frieden related the information that the individual had traveled to Liberia. The person left Liberia on September 19, and arrived in the United States on September 20 with no virus symptoms. Frieden said it was four or five days later that the patient, who is believed to be male, began developing symptoms and was ultimately admitted to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Sunday, September 28.
The CDC has already told airlines to “treat bodily fluids as infectious.”
The CDC has already told US hospital to “prepare for Ebola.”
I wrote on July 29th that Ebola was “just one plane ride away” from infecting other nations.
Ebola is quite readily transmitted aboard any aircraft, and the patient in Dallas flew from Liberia to DFW. On a regular commercial aircraft.
In all, four infected patients have returned to the United States in specially outfitted planes — three were treated in Atlanta and the fourth, who Dr. Brantly donated blood to, in Omaha. An American physician who was exposed to the virus, but not infected, was flown to Maryland over the weekend.
This man is now Patient Zero in America. The American index case.
Incubation can range from 2 to 20 days. The patient in Dallas could possibly have been infectious on the aircraft itself, which is not “specially outfitted.” Hospital staff admit this.
The hospital also admits that a family member or someone else could have come in contact with this person whilst he was in fact infectious.
Every aircraft has a closed system of recycled air. Everyone could potentially be infected. Everyone who handled his baggage. Everyone who helped him or serviced him at any point in his trip. And needs to be at least temporarily quarantined until tested and cleared.
Further, infection points would include places where he washed his hands, where he used silverware on the plane, where he sneezed, where he blew his nose, and where he urinated or defecated — those places are likewise potentially infected.
Sweating? Vomiting? Bodily fluids, ladies and gentlemen.
Where he touched his oily or sweating face and touched another object or person, in purposeful or unconscious gestures.
Experts say Ebola isn’t airborne. Unless that person sneezed, uncovered, and you were sitting next to him with an open sore on your face or neck or arms or hands. Or you were unfortunate enough to be yawning when he sneezed in your direction.
No, of course not, there is nothing to worry about regarding Ebola.
I’m just a nutjob.
BZ
P.S.
This does not even take into account the 3,000 soldiers Mr Obama has sent purposely into Ebola’s path.
BZ…
So Obozo sent 3000 high trained soldiers to pitch tents…why not send one ISIS member to teach them how to pitch a tent…?? Just sayin..
Just said. Sir.
BZ
As soon as I found out we had a case of Ebola here I thought of you, BZ, as I knew you would be on it right away. Thanks for not filing me. Seriously, this could be really bad. Now we have Ebola and beheadings in America and that is something to think about.
It’s here. Keep on top of things, BZ.
Yep, I got a post up last night too… It’s in the wild here… Now it’s ONE thing to ‘contain’ it when there is limited movement, but how do you do that in a mobile society (like the USA)…
Honestly, I think the government is underplaying how contagious it really is to prevent panic. Too many people have contracted this disease for it not to be spread relatively easily. They are saying it is spread by bodily fluids but not by a sneeze and I find that hard to believe as a sneeze is a mist of bodily fluids.
They don’t know how the man contracted Ebola as he was not a health care worker nor had sick family in Liberia yet they want us to believe there is absolutely no risk to passengers on any of the 3 flights he took: Monrovia to Brussels to Dulles to DFW.
He gets sick enough to go to the ER, when asked for his SS number he tells them he is from Liberia and this raises NO red flags? Not one? Is this not a major hospital? In a major city? Suppose he had been passing through, traveling with his relatives seeing the USA? Suppose he had died without being diagnosed? Would Ebola have ever been discovered? Imagine the implications.
And what about the people he had contact with who are now being ‘monitored’. What does this actually mean? Is it business as usual for them? Are there no restrictions on their comings and goings? No thoughts of quarantine until all is proven negative? And 5 school children are also being monitored? How pray tell would they have had contact with his ‘bodily fluids’ unless they are concerned about droplet transmission?
So perhaps airborne is in fact a possibility they just don’t want to talk about.
Now I read the man helped transport his neighbor, a visibly ill, Ebola stricken woman to hospital, riding in a taxi with her and helping to carry her into the hospital where she died the next day. Four days later he boards a plane to the West, KNOWING HE HAD BEEN EXPOSED to the disease yet CONCEALING that fact from airport screeners.
So what have we here? The birth of an idea? You know you’ve been exposed big time so before you show symptoms hop a plane to some first world country (preferably the US) where your chances of survival are vastly better than where you are. How long before others come to the same conclusion. Even if it is only a handful how does a country protect itself?
No amount of screening can prevent something like this.
I’m 80 or so miles away from it.
Worried? Some.
This disease can spread quickly.
I think the most probability of it spreading in Dallas is from the small children the carrier hugged and then these children went onto their public school classes.