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by KD5NRH
Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:46 am
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Topic: Dallas Hospital Isolates Possible Ebola Case
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Re: Dallas Hospital Isolates Possible Ebola Case

Dragonfighter wrote:Let's review. This guy goes into Presbyterian ER and says he's sick and he's from West Africa. They send him home. He exposes neighbors, goes outside to vomit and exposes a school aged child that goes to help him up.
Unless you're a hermit, imagine how hard it would be to identify everybody you've come in physical contact with in the last three days. Maybe I could, but only because I had very limited public interactions Friday and the weekend was pretty well full of church functions. Attendance wasn't terribly high, so by the time you ID and question the first 3-4 that I remember being there, you would have a pretty solid list. All stops were at otherwise empty quick stops due to the timing.

Oops; forgot the stop at the dollar store for snacks. There were probably a dozen other customers in there that probably can't be identified, (lots of cash customers, so pulling receipts won't help much) and given the layout of the store, I was close enough to cough on most of them at some point.

Now, had I been vomiting recently, I probably would have handled the whole weekend a lot differently, but that's me, my desire not to put others at unnecessary risk and Southern culture. Others with different morals from different cultures, who knows?
by KD5NRH
Fri Oct 03, 2014 6:17 pm
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Topic: Dallas Hospital Isolates Possible Ebola Case
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Keith B wrote:And this one disputes it, so who is correct?
Given that the Reston strain is airborne, saying that human-lethal strains of Ebola can't become airborne is like watching a Norwegian break a world record and authoritatively stating that no Californian will ever be able to do that simply because they haven't yet.
by KD5NRH
Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:54 am
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Topic: Dallas Hospital Isolates Possible Ebola Case
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AlaskanInTexas wrote:Mental note - stay away from other peoples' fluids.
Lest you be accused of being part of the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. :grumble
by KD5NRH
Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:59 pm
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Topic: Dallas Hospital Isolates Possible Ebola Case
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Re: Dallas Hospital Isolates Possible Ebola Case

Skiprr wrote:The result from the CDC's blood test is expected before 4:00 p.m. Central today. No additional identifying info on the patient, but it's a male and he traveled from Liberia.
Isn't ebola pretty transmissible for up to a week or more before onset of symptoms?

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