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

[CashMan]

I think a second person, who lives in the same household as the 1st person, now has it. I heard this morning.

 

[CashMan]

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

I thought I read, you can get it from sweat, or pretty much anything fluid that comes out of the body. So, snot, sweat, ect.

 

[Future]

I thought I read, you can get it from sweat, or pretty much anything fluid that comes out of the body. So, snot, sweat, ect.

Yea I think that's right I wasn't trying to be factual

 

[CashMan]

Yea I think that's right I wasn't trying to be factual

I totally agree with you, stay away from Africa, right now.

 

[jobberone]

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

When the patient is symptomatic, people think they have the flu or something viral. Others come in contact with the secretions and become infected themselves. There is likely a period when patients are minimally symptomatic yet secreting virus. Of course as they become sicker the viral load increases greatly and they secret the virus more.

 

[MonsterD]

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

Unfortunately Africa is very poor and has little to no prevention, education,awareness, and resources. In a first world country like here the Ebola virus is easily contained.

 

[Doomsday101]

for something that is hard to catch it sure as heck has spread like crazy in Africa. The fact this is the very 1st case of Ebola in the US should be of concern.

 

[MonsterD]

for something that is hard to catch it sure as heck has spread like crazy in Africa. The fact this is the very 1st case of Ebola in the US should be of concern.

I live in Dallas County and I am not concerned. Africa has tons of people who live very hazardously when it comes to communicable diseases, that and they simply don't have the hospitals like we do here.

 

[Doomsday101]

I live in Dallas County and I am not concerned. Africa has tons of people who live very hazardously when it comes to communicable diseases, that and they simply don't have the hospitals like we do here.

I don't think people should go crazy but to me it is a concern when a virus like Ebola enters into the US. Will this single case lead to anything else? I don't know but the very fact that Ebola is on US shores to me that is a concern.

 

[CashMan]

I don't think people should go crazy but to me it is a concern when a virus like Ebola enters into the US. Will this single case lead to anything else? I don't know but the very fact that Ebola is on US shores to me that is a concern.

Agreed

My question would be, is this a virus that thrives in warm climates? I mean, how much Yellow Fever is there in the US( I think it is sorta comparable)?

 

[Doomsday101]

Agreed

My question would be, is this a virus that thrives in warm climates? I mean, how much Yellow Fever is there in the US( I think it is sorta comparable)?

Africa is some pretty warm climate so is Texas. Thing with Yellow Fever it's carried by a certain species of female mosquitoes

 

[jobberone]

LOL. I lub it.

 

[EST_1986]

An American NBC camera man working in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola

 

[DallasCowpoke]

The scary thing is, it's almost assured he WON'T be the last to do this I fear!
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DMN: Liberia to prosecute Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan for lying on health form

 

[Phoenix]

Oh snap. I'm going into hibernation.

http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81577493/


Washington, D.C. hospital admits patient with possible Ebola symptoms





REUTERS/Frederick Murphy/CDC



Updated 43 minutes ago
Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. has admitted a patient with possible symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus "in an abundance of caution," it said in a statement on Friday.

The patient, who had recently traveled to Nigeria, is in stable condition and is being treated in isolation, a hospital spokeswoman said, adding that she could not provide additional details about the case because of patient privacy.

 

[jobberone]

Inevitable. People are going to try to save their lives. Contact enough to get infected. Get on a plane to Europe then to the US for treatment lying about contact. Avoid GB and FR traveling. If disease contacted get help her.

They are going to have to quarantine W Africa which I don't think they can do in modern times.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Is it safe to watch the Cowboys game?

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Wikipedia says it's spread through blood and semen (like AIDS or any other STD). People are acting like you can't go outside and breathe the air.

 

[CyberB0b]

Wikipedia says it's spread through blood and semen (like AIDS or any other STD). People are acting like you can't go outside and breathe the air.

Other body fluids with ebola virus include saliva, mucus, vomit, feces, sweat, tears, breast milk, urine, and semen.

Seems like if he sneezed or went to the restroom without washing his hands, it could be transmitted.

 

[Tawney88]

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?

Unless he bleed on someone, or had other contact with bodily fluid everyone should be ok.