Ebola in Texas.

[colorider]

Just fucking wonderful. Some jackass spends some time in the epicenter off Ebola land and casually comes back to the us bringing it back with him. Does not know untill a few days after he gets here and starts feeling sick.
Just curious, where are the god damn precautions with these people retuning from a country where Ebola is spreading like bad news ? No quarantine ? No travel ban ? To me this is just fucking rediculous. Thanks Obama.

[OtterbatHellcat]

No kidding.

It was only a matter of time. Now watch the insurance companies and O Care freak out about everything. It's only money, right?

[Irving]

Guy I work with just got back from two weeks in Africa. A trip like that you probably have planned for over a year, if not two. I can see people not canceling.

[MarkCO]

We have people infected with all manner of disease coming to the US on a regular basis. One reason I limit flying and then avoid International hubs if at all possible.

[HoneyBadger]

Am I the only one sitting at my computer in MOPP 4?

[Ronin13]

Am I the only one sitting at my computer in MOPP 4?

I've been there since the first sign of outbreak over here...

[th3w01f]

Gotta love this part.

The patient, who was in the U.S. visiting family in Texas, initially sought care on September 26, but was sent home and was not admitted until two days later.

[Special Ed]

Gotta love this part.

The patient, who was in the U.S. visiting family in Texas, initially sought care on September 26, but was sent home and was not admitted until two days later.

I went to Longmont United in July 2006 complaining of severe headaches, neck pain and an inability to control thought or emotion (no, I'm not female). Had a fever of 102. Emergency room intake nurse said, "Sounds like a classic example of an upper respiratory infection." I told her I thought she was wrong but she made me wait until someone could get around to me. One attentive ER nurse, a quick thinking ER doctor and a spinal tap later, I was diagnosed with meningitis and hooked up to more IVs than I'd ever seen in my life. I bet the look on that intake nurse's face was classic when she learned that she had to be quarantined until they could determine what kind of meningitis I had (two days later).

These stupid people who get into auto pilot and don't stop to really listen to patients are one day going to seriously regret their ineptitude.

I live north of Ft. Worth now and was in Dallas last weekend. I can tell you that I am not at all happy that the idiots at the hospital didn't take the right precautions and test the guy for Ebola. Even more discouraging is that the EMTs said they believed the guy had Ebola when they responded to the call and they STILL KEPT THE AMBULANCE IN SERVICE FOR TWO DAYS! I don't care that they decontaminated it after transporting him. If that was a sufficient action after transporting a possible Ebola patient, the friggin' ambulance wouldn't have been taken out of service after they confirmed it was Ebola!

So glad I moved to the DFW area earlier this year.

[KestrelBike]

I went to Longmont United in July 2006 complaining of severe headaches, neck pain and an inability to control thought or emotion (no, I'm not female). Had a fever of 102. Emergency room intake nurse said, "Sounds like a classic example of an upper respiratory infection." I told her I thought she was wrong but she made me wait until someone could get around to me. One attentive ER nurse, a quick thinking ER doctor and a spinal tap later, I was diagnosed with meningitis and hooked up to more IVs than I'd ever seen in my life. I bet the look on that intake nurse's face was classic when she learned that she had to be quarantined until they could determine what kind of meningitis I had (two days later)

Did you have the blotches/rash on the lower half of your abdomen? Severe photosensitivity? Also, did you wake up with these symptoms in the morning, or did they develop later in the day? Just curious; a former classmate who had been a good friend died of bacterial meningitis many years ago, and those were his symptoms.

[Special Ed]

Did you have the blotches/rash on the lower half of your abdomen? Severe photosensitivity? Also, did you wake up with these symptoms in the morning, or did they develop later in the day? Just curious; a former classmate who had been a good friend died of bacterial meningitis many years ago, and those were his symptoms.

Severe photosensitivity, unable to control emotions (difficult to explain that one but imagine trying to talk to someone and crying for a few words in the middle of a sentence and then stopping crying but continuing with the sentence - doc said that was normal given a brain infection). Don't recall any blotches but I don't remember much of what happened over the course of the four days I was in the hospital. Symptoms started in the morning and progressed throughout the day to the point where I couldn't even stand up on my own by the time my wife got home at 5:00PM. The bugger of it all is that they never did isolate the specific type of meningitis. The ER doc said my spinal fluid was the consistency of cottage cheese and my neurologist said the spinal tap revealed it was bacterial but couldn't understand why it didn't get worse since all they did in the hospital was give me antibiotics and fluids. My family doc said he thought it was West Nile but the tests (he did them several times) came back negative for it (negative as well for equine flu, avian flu and a host of others I've long since forgotten).

I'm sorry to hear you lost a good friend over that disease.