I'm surprised that we hadn't had a confirmed Ebola case in the US earlier. This was inevitable and it was one reason why the CDC has been talking about this for a month. Also as far closing down air traffic from West Africa I heard on the news that they already screening passengers and if someone has a fever they aren't supposed to allow them on the plane. This guy wasn't showing symptoms so went through the screening. Doing the height of SARS flights too and from Asia were doing the same thing and I remembered getting checked both getting on and off planes in Hong Kong and Singapore to see if I was running a temperature. I'm guessing if I had they probably wouldn't have let me leave the airport.
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The patient DID mention it. Then he was sent home with antibiotics. At that point, there's no reason for him to assume he has ebola. http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 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.
I read that this fellow in Dallas with Ebola has had contact with multiple children. Why has he had contact with school age children? Is he a pedophile of some sort? I think that's the bigger story here.
This is one thing I don't understand is why the doctor sent him home with some antibiotics. Without knowing whether the patient even has a bacterial infection antibiotics will do nothing for a viral infection in the case of ebola or even if the patient just had the flu. Also antibiotic resistance is a big problem and it seems irresponsible for a doctor to just prescribe antibiotics without knowing for sure they will do anything.
I think within the apartment community that he lives ..its like a community for people from Liberia.. Probably kids of his family or neighbors kids ..its not young kids. I read it was middle school to high school ages.
LOL Welcome to America brah. Doctors want to spend as little time as possible with you. Writing a script for antibiotics and pushing you out the door is ideal. If they can get away without actually seeing you at all, even better.
Yup. My understanding is that hospitals nationwide had already been instructed to ask any ER patient about travel. They did that right. But then they didn't follow up properly based on that. That's a major screw up.
More info: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html?_r=1 MONROVIA, Liberia — A man who flew to Dallas and was later found to have the Ebola virus was identified by senior Liberian government officials on Wednesday as Thomas Eric Duncan, a resident of Monrovia in his mid-40s. Mr. Duncan, the first person to develop symptoms outside Africa during the current epidemic, had direct contact with a woman stricken by Ebola on Sept. 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States, the woman’s parents and Mr. Duncan’s neighbors said. In a pattern often seen here in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, the family of the woman, Marthalene Williams, 19, took her by taxi to a hospital with Mr. Duncan’s help on Sept. 15 after failing to get an ambulance, said her parents, Emmanuel and Amie Williams. She was convulsing and seven months pregnant, they said. Turned away from a hospital for lack of space in its Ebola treatment ward, the family said it took Ms. Williams back home in the evening, and that she died hours later, around 3 a.m. Mr. Duncan, who was a family friend and also a tenant in a house owned by the Williams family, rode in the taxi in the front passenger seat while Ms. Williams, her father and her brother, Sonny Boy, shared the back seat, her parents said. Mr. Duncan then helped carry Ms. Williams, who was no longer able to walk, back to the family home that evening, neighbors said. (much more) There's a lot of stupid involved in this.
