Agreed on this - all those people have better things to be doing. I think the head of the Texas hospital was there too. There will be plenty of time to evaluate their performance and call them in for whatever purpose, but right now, there's no reason to be taking them away from dealing with ebola full time.
... Are all basically Nancy's puppets -- no one has had the power of Snyderman since the General C. Everett Koop died.
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Airline notifying 800 passengers linked to flights taken by nurse infected with Ebola A nurse infected with Ebola may have had symptoms sooner than originally believed, authorities say, and an airline is notifying up to 800 passengers linked to flights she took between Dallas and Cleveland. In addition to Amber Vinson's round trip, Frontier Airlines is also reaching out to others who were in five subsequent flights that used the same plane. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/17/health/us-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I know the media is just loving this, and they can parade her around as a new typhoid Mary, but the chance that she was really very contagious during these flights is very, very low. And you would *think* she was being extra careful... (but then, if she was extra careful, she never would have taken that flight, IMHO).
Well, I would think they would be extra careful at a freaking hospital too, yet at least two people caught it. Hard to believe.
Health Worker Who May Have Had Contact With Ebola Is on Cruise Ship http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ebola-cruise-ship-dallas.html?_r=1 DALLAS — Adding a new and troubling dimension to the search for Americans possibly exposed to the Ebola virus, the State Department said Friday that an employee of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who might have had contact with specimens of the disease had left the United States aboard a cruise ship. The employee and a traveling partner, who were not identified by name, agreed to remain isolated in a cabin aboard the vessel, the State Department said, and “out of an abundance of caution” efforts were underway to repatriate them. A physician aboard the cruise ship told the authorities that the employee was in good health. News reports quoting an official statement from the government of Belize said the ship was in that country’s waters, but the authorities there refused to allow American officials to evacuate the passengers through their territory. While United States officials “had emphasized the very low risk category in this case,” the statement said, “the government of Belize decided not to facilitate a U.S. request for assistance in evacuating the passenger through” an airport. The disclosure of the presence of the employee on the cruise ship, made by a State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, added to the growing concerns that have gripped Americans, health care workers, lawmakers and leaders across the country since a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, tested positive for Ebola last month and died on Oct. 8 at the Texas hospital. Since then, two nurses, Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson, have become infected. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, already trying to trace passengers who were on a flight that Ms. Vinson took to Dallas from Cleveland on Monday, have now extended the search to passenger who were a second airplane she took in the opposite direction last Friday. Ms. Vinson and Ms. Pham were among nearly 100 workers at the Dallas hospital who cared for Mr. Duncan. On Thursday, in response to public fears stirred by Ms. Vinson’s air travel, health care workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who are being monitored for Ebola symptoms were asked by Dallas County officials to voluntarily agree to avoid public places and not use public transportation, including commercial airliners and trains, during the 21-day incubation period of the virus. State and county officials are asking hospital workers to sign agreements that appear to effectively limit their movements to staying at home. The move differs from the steps taken to quarantine Mr. Duncan’s fiancée and three others who had contact with Mr. Duncan. On Oct. 1, state officials hand-delivered orders to his fiancée and the others requiring them to remain in their home until their incubation periods passed. The orders — known as communicable disease control orders — are permitted under the state’s health code. “This is a situation where part of what we’re doing here deals with people in the public being afraid that they’ll bump into an asymptomatic disease contact while getting a carton of milk at a Kroger, so we’re not going to let these people go to the Kroger for 21 days,” said County Judge Clay Jenkins, Dallas County’s chief executive and its director of homeland security and emergency management said. If someone chose not to sign the agreement, Mr. Jenkins said, they would be placed under a quarantine. “These are hometown health care heroes,” he said. “We’re not going to need to do anything that we have the legal right to do here.” While the hospital workers are at home, they will be under two sets of monitoring: A self-monitoring regimen in which they check their town temperature regularly, as well as active monitoring by officials, who will visit them twice a day. The state and county agreements to avoid public transportation were issued after the cruise ship passenger had already set off on vacation. Ms. Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said Friday that as part of the C.D.C.'s “detailed contact trace investigation conducted in response to the first Ebola case in Dallas, it was discovered that an employee of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had departed the United States via a commercial cruise ship on Oct. 12 from Galveston, Tex.” “The employee did not have direct contact” with Mr. Duncan, the statement said, “but may have had contact with clinical specimens collected from him.” “The individual was out of the country before being notified of the C.D.C.'s updated requirements for active monitoring,” her statement said. “At the time the hospital employee left the country, C.D.C. was requiring only self-monitoring.” It has been 19 days since the passenger may have processed samples of fluids from Mr. Duncan, Ms. Psaki said. “The cruise line has actively supported the C.D.C.'s efforts to speak with the individual, whom the cruise ship’s medical doctor has monitored and confirmed was in good health,” the statement said. “Following this examination, the hospital employee and traveling partner have voluntarily remained isolated in a cabin. We are working with the cruise line to safely bring them back to the United States out of an abundance of caution.” Such are the concerns about the spread of Ebola that President Obama raised the possibility on Thursday that he might appoint an “Ebola czar” to manage the government’s response. Some schools were closed in two states, hospitals and airlines kept employees home from work, and Americans debated how much they should worry about a disease that has captured national attention but has so far produced only three known cases in Dallas. The Ebola outbreak was first reported this year in West Africa, and around 4,500 people have died, mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. But concerns have deepened in Western countries about the possibility of travelers spreading the disease far from its center. On Thursday, four new cases of people showing Ebola symptoms were reported in Europe, reflecting fears that measures to contain the virus were insufficient and that more people, especially health workers attending to patients, were at risk of contamination. The French and Spanish authorities would not confirm if any of the four people had tested positive for Ebola. But in each of the cases — one in France, three in Spain — a link to possible sources of contamination had been established. So far, two people have died of Ebola in Spain and one in Germany. In Britain, the authorities have said that 750 military personnel would reach Sierra Leone by November to support health efforts. As part of that deployment, a medical support ship, the Argus, was set to leave England for Sierra Leone on Friday with helicopters, crew members and medical personnel onboard.
May have had contact with ebola? So is that like a janitor that worked in the hospital? I'd wait for more details before judging or panicking.
So, you're ill and vomited, we don't know what it is and we're mid-air, the Ebola scare is on (and overhyped), and we're going to keep you in the plane bathroom because you're black? Hmm...not so sure Selby is right on that one. Paranoid maybe...but racist and paranoid?
What distinguishes Schnell's work from that of other scientists seeking to prevent these gruesome diseases is that he is piggy-backing them onto a rabies vaccine. http://articles.philly.com/2014-10-06/news/54657612_1_zaire-strain-schnell-ebola some guy made a new vaccine by combining rabies and ebola virus
Except you wouldn't believe it if you read it in a book. You'd be like, "no way! No way they'd let someone like that get on a cruise ship!!! That's crazy!!!!......I'M BRIAN FELLOWS!!!"
crazy to think the cruise was out of Galveston too. Who knows where she was at in her time from Dallas to Galveston. Could have walked around the Galleria for all we know. Or Downtown Houston, etc. Hopefully she's not infected.
