Ebola in Texas.

[Special Ed]

Many reports now saying he DID inform the hospital staff at his first visit of his travel history. Sounding more and more like the supposedly prepared and trained hospital screwed up.

Oh, and the ambulance that transported him to the hospital for his 2nd visit remained in use for two days after until they got the positive test back. Sounds like the paramedics have been isolated as a precaution.

+1 and then some.

And now they've got one of Ebola Man's family members in isolation because they too may have it.

[hollohas]

The patient, a man, walked into an emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on September 26. A nurse asked him about his recent travels while he was in the emergency room, and the patient said he had traveled to Africa, said Dr. Mark Lester, executive vice president of Texas Health Resources.
But that information was not "fully communicated" to the medical team, Lester said.

The man, who had flown from Liberia to the United States about a week earlier, underwent basic blood tests, but not an Ebola screening, and was sent home with antibiotics, said Dr. Edward Goodman with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
Two days later, on September 28, the man returned to the facility, where it was determined that he probably had Ebola. He was then isolated. He tested positive for the virus Tuesday, health officials said.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health...html?hpt=hp_c2

[hollohas]

There are older studies that suggest possible airborne transmission through aerosol droplets. Infected pigs got monkeys sick when they never had direct contact. This is from 2012

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/1211...srep00811.html

In-contact transmission of Zaire-EBOV (ZEBOV) between pigs was demonstrated experimentally. Here we show ZEBOV transmission from pigs to cynomolgus macaques without direct contact....

... Piglets inoculated oro-nasally with ZEBOV were transferred to the room housing macaques in an open inaccessible cage system. All macaques became infected....

[Dave_L]

No matter what they say, this is scary. It amazes me how many people are almost laughing at the concern over this.

[KestrelBike]

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.

Yikes, glad to hear you recovered. From what I remember (this was back in.. 2002/3?) my friend had woken up with the splotches and could barely look at lights, got to the ER by noon or so and by late afternoon he was gone. He was healthy as a horse, too (great cross country runner, but maybe his very low BMI and smaller frame had something to do with the mortality?)

[HighCaliber]

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). .

Or being female.

Glad you won this battle against meningitis.

I don't think people realize how much strength it takes to battle an enemy that is within.

[Kraven251]

No matter what they say, this is scary. It amazes me how many people are almost laughing at the concern over this.

And it isn't even that nervous laughter, it is just the "nothing bad could ever happen" laughter and rhetoric

[roberth]

No matter what they say, this is scary. It amazes me how many people are almost laughing at the concern over this.

Just wait until some hollywood dipstick or sports star catches it, then the wailing will begin.

[PugnacAutMortem]

Just wait until some hollywood dipstick or sports star catches it, then the wailing will begin.

Please let it be Kim Kardashian and Kanye West...

[hollohas]

New reports - Possible ebola infected patient in Hawaii is being held in isolation. No test results yet.

http://khon2.com/2014/10/01/patient-...a-possibility/