First diagnosed case of Ebola in the U.S. *Patient dies*

[Doomsday101]

CNN) -- A patient being treated at a Dallas, Texas, hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.
Several other Americans were diagnosed in West Africa and then brought to the United States for treatment.
The person who first tested positive for Ebola in the United States is a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, hospital spokesman Stephen O'Brien said Tuesday.
The adult patient developed symptoms days after returning to Texas from West Africa, and was admitted into isolation on Sunday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The CDC is expected to provide more details on the case in a press conference at 5:30 p.m.

 

[Doomsday101]

this is some scary stuff. Now who has he been in contact with since boarding the plane to the US and before going to hospital?

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Without going off on a tangent that will surely get the thread locked just let me say this is insanity.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Let the madness begin.

 

[Rack]

This is scary. Don't want my wife to leave the house.

 

[Future]

stop going to freaking Africa!!!!

 

[Phoenix]

And so it begins...

 

[MissouriCowboy]

Ban flights from Africa

 

[maxdallasfan]

Nobody in, nobody out. If you leave, adios.

 

[joseephuss]

Ban flights from Africa

Someone could just fly from Africa to someplace in Europe or Canada and then take a separate flight into the U.S.. It also isn't the entire continent of Africa that has the issues.

 

[MissouriCowboy]

Someone could just fly from Africa to someplace in Europe or Canada and then take a separate flight into the U.S.. It also isn't the entire continent of Africa that has the issues.

Very scary joseephuss.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Nobody in, nobody out. If you leave, adios.

a tad over the top

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Of course you guys get Ebola just before I arrive. Some in my office are now afraid of those of us going. I'm like please, 1 in a city of 8 million has it, nothing to worry about.

 

[WoodysGirl]

 

[Eric_Boyer]

time to build that wall a little further north

j/k

 

[Blast From The Past]

Of course you guys get Ebola just before I arrive. Some in my office are now afraid of those of us going. I'm like please, 1 in a city of 8 million has it, nothing to worry about.

I flew into DFW on Sept 20th, the same day as this affected passenger and am flying out this Sat to go back to New England and I am not in the least worried.

 

[CyberB0b]

Not a big deal.

 

[bounce]

It's not an airborne disease. It's not something that's very easily catchable at all.

 

[trickblue]

It's not an airborne disease. It's not something that's very easily catchable at all.

Viruses frequently evolve...

When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air.

The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys. They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species.

Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection. In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease.

Within eight days of exposure, two of the four monkeys showed signs of Ebola infection. Four days later, the remaining two monkeys were sick too. It is possible that the first two monkeys infected the other two, but transmission between non-human primates has never before been observed in a lab setting.

While the study provided evidence that transmission of Ebola between species is possible, researchers still cannot say for certain how that transmission actually occurred. There are three likely candidates for the route of transmission: airborne, droplet, or fomites.

- See more at: http://healthmap.org/site/diseaseda...ola-goes-airborne-112112#sthash.KwBhsCIj.dpuf​

 

[Future]

It's not an airborne disease. It's not something that's very easily catchable at all.

Yea, I don't get how it keeps spreading if people are getting quarantined. You can't pass it on unless you have symptoms, and since it's not airborn I'm not really sure what's going on.

Maybe I should rephrase my first response...

Don't freaking go to Africa and touch anyone's blood or semen lol