Ebola outbreak in West Africa

[kentonio]

Why did he lie about his contact with a symptomatic patient to airport screeners then?

Probably because he didn't want to miss an expensive flight because of an act of kindness he'd shown to a stranger. Certainly not wise, but perfectly understandable. Why do people smoke despite knowing there's a huge cancer risk? Because no-one really thinks that they'll be the one who catches a disease.

[Dauphin]

If he thought he had ebola, would he have accepted being discharged from hospital?

There are irregularities in both narrative versions. Some bigger than others.

[Ben Kenobi]

would he have accepted being discharged from hospital?

Was it his choice to be discharged? I see no evidence for this.

[Dauphin]

He could have said "I have ebola you stupid mother****ers!"

[DaShi]

Wow! What an expose on health care in Texas. Not only is it racist and inhumane, it's entirely incompetent. Texas owes America an apology.

Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens of hospital workers to the virus, according to medical records.

“For their necks, nurses had to use medical tape, that is not impermeable and has permeable seams, to wrap around their necks in order to protect themselves, and had to put on the tape and take it off on their own,” the statement reads.

“Nurses had to interact with Mr. Duncan with whatever protective equipment was available, at a time when he had copious amounts of diarrhea and vomiting which produces a lot of contagious fluids.”

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/presbyterian-workers-wore-no-protective-gear-for-two-days-while-treating-ebola-patient.html/

Duncan was left in a nonquarantined zone for several hours, and a nurse supervisor faced resistance from hospital authorities after demanding that Duncan be moved to an isolation unit, according to the union’s statement. Additionally, Duncan’s lab specimens were sent through the hospital’s tube system, potentially contaminating the system, the nurses said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dallas-nurses-hospital-sloppy-ebola-protocols-union/story?id=26205956

Nurses at a Texas hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola described a confused and chaotic response to his arrival in the emergency room, alleging in a statement Tuesday that he languished for hours in a room with other patients and that hospital authorities resisted isolating him.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-dallas-20141014-story.html#page=1

"He was a man of color with no health insurance & no means to pay," so a Dallas hospital released him--with Ebola

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20141014-exclusive-ebola-didnt-have-to-kill-thomas-eric-duncan-nephew-says.ece

Please secede already Texas!!!!

[Ben Kenobi]

He was a man of color with no health insurance & no means to pay

Glad to see confirmation of raysiss is why the man died.

[DinoDoc]

If he thought he had Ebola, would he have accepted being discharged from hospital?

Did he tell the hospital about his contact with a symptomatic patient in Liberia?

[Guynemer]

The posters in Ohio, unlike you, are not craven lunatics who scurry off like ****ing squirrels because someone in the same rough geographic area got sick.

Get a grip!

Speaking as a (the?) poster in Ohio, you can't make me read Ben's posts.

[Guynemer]

Also, I just saw on the news that the nurse on the plane apparently reported "a fever of 99.5" before getting on the plane.

Please note that, in no way whatsoever, by any definition, is 99.5 a fever.

It is a normal temperature.

98.6 is an average. Your body temperature varies around that on a daily basis, from around 97 flat to about 100.4.

[DinoDoc]

Speaking as a (the?) poster in Ohio, you can't make me read Ben's posts.

Ebola victim wandered around Cleavland for a bit. I'm unsure if were to be hoping the city will soon be depopulated.

[Dauphin]

Did he tell the hospital about his contact with a symptomatic patient in Liberia?

Please set out where you think this takes the conversation.

[Guynemer]

No no, I know the story. I'm just saying that reg can't make me take Ben off ignore to see whatever it is he is claiming about Ohio posters.

[DinoDoc]

Should we hope Cleavland is depopulated?

[Guynemer]

Should we hope Cleavland is depopulated?

Naw, Cleveland seems fine, I was just there yesterday.

[DinoDoc]

Naw, Cleveland seems fine, I was just there yesterday.

Is it a post apocalyptic wasteland yet?