5 Dallas ISD students possibly exposed to ebola http://www.khou.com/story/news/loca...-students-possibly-exposed-to-ebola/16538601/ There's a lot to that story. Why, exactly?
Biggest issue is that you have hospitals turning away ebola patients because there's nowhere to put them. As much as it's practical to say "don't touch an ebola patient", what are uneducated people going to do when their 7-month pregnant daughter/sister/etc is convulsing on the floor. The failures in just the beginning of that article: 1. Ambulance couldn't come get her 2. Took her in a cab, with people holding her 3. Hospital turned them away 4. People carried her home 5. She died in the home The infection vectors in that are a nightmare. My first reaction was to say the hospital has to find a way NOT to send them back into the public, whether that be a quarantine area or whatnot. But if it sounds inhumane, that also makes it less likely the next patient will even come in. So it's all around a disaster there.
Poverty is certainly a huge part of it. But poverty has nothing to do with the decision to jump on a plane 4 days after you carried around a woman dying of ebola.
That's sad if it's kids. I think it's been harder on younger people in Africa (maybe because the life expectancy already skews the population to that side -- I don't know). This whole story is too crazy. So you take people's temperature before letting them board an airplane, but you don't ask, "have you had close contact with a very sick person in the infected area?" Not like people would be honest anyway when it comes to air travel.
CDC btw, vacillates on the "direct contact" requirement; their own guidelines say "within 3 feet" which is not the same thing. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/10/0...ting-information-on-how-ebola-is-transmitted/
the stupid was touching the woman, without gloves or anything. Ironically he was damn lucky he came to the U.S or he probably would be dead by now.
Remember, it's only contagious after symptoms appear. The children are now being monitored at home. None have shown symptoms. If you're super worried about catching something , strengthen your immune system by eating fruits and vegetables with vitamins C and E. Also, exercise.
nevermind thought this was recent...thats pertaining 2 the first time he made the visit and got sent home with antibiotics. Still r****ded though
so the hospital got rid of someone, then realized it was a big mistake and brought him back in after he was a physical wreck? Who owns this hospital, Mark Cuban?
That's what I was thinking after reading the NY Times article. It seems like he pretty clearly knew he was exposed to Ebola. It's also pretty clear that his home region wasn't going to be able to care for him...they turned away someone while he was there. What are the chances he came here intentionally to get better treatment in case he came down with Ebola? And continuing along the same thought process. How do we stop people of adequate means from traveling here after potentially being exposed?
