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    Confirmed: Second Healthcare Worker’s Worst Fears on Ebola Realized

    I think that the introduction of Ebola in this country is the direct result of the Obama administration's refusal to to enforce existing immigration laws, and the policy of the government of paying for foreign national's medical expenses from US taxpayer generated funds. Of course he lied on the application to get here for free medical. Why is the US Embassy in Liberia still issuing travel VISAs to the US? Of course he lied to get here - just like the "refugees" form Central America. People lie for a free ride. Stop making it FREE to these people, I can't afford them.

    Confirmed: Second Healthcare Worker’s Worst Fears on Ebola Realized



    Michael Cantrell




    Texas health officials have confirmed that a second healthcare worker at the Dallas hospital where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was treated, has tested positive for the virus.

    From Fox News:

    The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed that the worker had tested positive in a statement early Wednesday. It did not specify what position the worker held at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, though officials did say that the person was among those who provided care for Duncan, who died from the virus Oct. 8.

    The statement said that the worker had reported a fever Tuesday and had been placed in isolation. Preliminary tests were run at the state public health lab in Austin and results came back at approximately midnight Wednesday. A separate test will be done at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

    The statement also said the health care worker, who wasn’t identified, was interviewed to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures and that others will be monitored. It added that the type of monitoring will depend on the nature of their interactions with the health care worker and the potential of exposure to the virus.

    With this newest confirmed case of Ebola, one has to wonder if the CDC can be believed when they say they are perfectly capable of containing this deadly virus. Perhaps the new measures they are implementing will be more effective, but unfortunately for those coming down with the virus now, it’s too little too late.

    While it might be easy at this point to start panicking, or spending all of our time pointing the finger at Obama for this outbreak, which is justified, everyone needs to focus on spreading awareness about the virus, it’s warning signs and symptoms, and taking common sense steps to prevent an infection.

    It’s also important that Americans across the country keep those who contract this disease in their thoughts and prayers, as this is going to be a difficult time for the infected and their families.


    Read more at http://youngcons.com/confirmed-secon...wy8QUWQ7zXp.99

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    I guess that until Ebola hits Washington DC, very little will be done about travel. JMO
    EBOLA HORROR: STRICKEN NURSE FLEW U.S. AIRLINE


    CDC tracking down passengers for possible exposure

    Published: 2 hours ago.
    Updated: 10/15/2014 at 12:05 PM
    JEROME R. CORSI


    Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, left, speaks to reporters Wednesday with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins


    NEW YORK – Only hours after the Centers for Disease Control reassured the American public the health-care procedures at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were adequate to contain Ebola, CDC announced a second health-care worker who treated the “index patient,” Thomas Eric Duncan from Liberia, has been diagnosed with the disease.

    At an early morning press conference in Dallas, hospital officials admitted they are “learning as they go” as concerns mount nationwide that the CDC may not have fully understood how Ebola is transmitted and that CDC protocols may be inadequate.

    CDC, nevertheless, said in an early morning press release Wednesday, “As we have said before, because of our ongoing investigation, it is not unexpected that there would be additional exposures.”

    The nurse, however, identified as 29-year-old Amber Jay Vinson, took a flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Monday, the day before she reported symptoms.

    Frontier Airlines said in a statement it was notified by CDC at 1 a.m. Wednesday that a customer on a flight Monday later tested positive for Ebola.

    Flight 1143 landed at 8:16 p.m. local time in Dallas-Fort Worth and “remained overnight at the airport having completed its flying for the day at which point the aircraft received a thorough cleaning per our normal procedures which is consistent with CDC guidelines prior to returning to service the next day.”

    The airline said the plane also was also cleaned again in Cleveland Tuesday night. Previously the customer had traveled from Dallas Fort Worth to Cleveland on Frontier flight 1142 on Friday.

    The CDC said in a statement that because of the proximity in time between the evening flight and first report of illness the following morning, it is asking all 132 passengers on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Oct. 13 to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800 232-4636).

    Public health professionals will begin Wednesday afternoon interviewing the passengers about the flight, answering their questions and arranging follow up.

    Health officials have interviewed Vinson, who lives alone with no pets, to identify any contacts or potential exposures.

    Confirmatory testing was being conducted at CDC while decontamination was under way at the patient’s Dallas apartment.

    Only yesterday, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden once again insisted to reporters that CDC protocols are sufficient to control the Ebola outbreak in the United States and West Africa, if they are followed precisely 100 percent of the time.

    Even while trying to reassure the public, Frieden yesterday admitted CDC has not yet identified the incident that led to nurse Nina Pham becoming infected with Ebola as she treated Duncan.

    Still, Frieden made clear CDC is counting on preventing future infections of health-care workers not by reexamining protocols but by placing a site manager in an Ebola war “to make sure protective gear is put on correctly and taken off correctly.”
    He emphasized CDC intends to increase Ebola training for health-care workers and plans to limit the number of workers treating Ebola.

    “We have created a CDC emergency response team that can be dispatched to be on-site at any hospital in the United States where a case of Ebola is confirmed,” he announced, doubling down on the commitment to treat Ebola patients locally rather than create a small number of specialized regional facilities.

    Tuesday, Freiden stressed that every hospital in the U.S. must be capable of taking in Ebola patients as long as travel with the disease-affected West African countries remains open.

    CDC is monitoring a total of 125 people, including health-care workers, who may have had contact with the virus. None have showed signs of having contracted the disease, he said.

    On Wednesday, CDC announced it was sending to Dallas a second emergency Ebola health-care team. It includes doctors experienced in treating Ebola patients in Africa and experts who have worked with Doctors Without Borders on infection control protocols and trained others in Africa to follow them.

    CDC also announced it was putting a site manager in place at the Dallas hospital around the clock as long as Ebola patients are receiving care.

    CDC appears resolved to adhere to previously announced public policy preferences to keep open air travel with West Africa and to make all U.S. hospitals capable of diagnosing and treating Ebola patients.

    To reinforce the point, CDC announced Wednesday the creation of a dedicated response team that could be on the ground within a few hours at any hospital treated an Ebola patient.

    The CDC Response Team aims to provide in-person, expert support and training on infection control, health-care safety, medical treatment, contact tracing, waste and decontamination, public education and other issues.

    “The CDC Response Team would help ensure that clinicians, and state and local public health practitioners, consistently follow strict standards of protocol to ensure safety of the patient and healthcare workers,” CDC said on Wednesday.

    On Wednesday, CDC also held to its medical conclusion that Ebola cannot be spread by airborne contact with the disease.
    “Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to objects such as needles that have been contaminated,” the CDC said.

    “The illness has an average 8-10 day incubation period (although it could be from 2 to 21 days) so CDC recommends monitoring exposed people for symptoms a complete 21 days. People are not contagious during the incubation period, meaning before symptoms such as fever develop.”

    On Tuesday, WND reported the World Health Organization contradicted CDC by disclosing that 21 days is not necessarily the end of the at-risk period for the incubation of Ebola.

    “Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval,” the WHO situation assessment said.


    Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/2nd-nurse...DUstAKe2sSH.99

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    Second Ebola Nurse Flew to Cleveland to Prepare for Her Wedding

    Oct 15, 2014, 2:58 PM ET
    By MEGHAN KENEALLY



    2nd Nurse Infected With Ebola Was on Plane Before Diagnosis

    The Dallas nurse who traveled to Ohio before being diagnosed with Ebola had flown to Cleveland to prepare for her wedding, officials said today.

    Amber Vinson, 29, a nurse at the Dallas hospital where an Ebola patient had died, was identified today as the second health care worker at the hospital to contract the deadly virus.

    "She flew into Cleveland to prepare for her wedding. She came in to visit her mother and her mother’s fiance," said Toinette Parrilla, director of Cleveland Department of Public Health.

    Health Second Ebola Nurse Violated Guidelines By Flying on Commercial Jet

    Health Dallas Ebola Patient Being Transferred to Emory

    Vinson stayed at her relatives' home while visiting Ohio and those relatives are employees of Kent State University, the school said in a statement.

    "She did not step foot on our campus," Kent State President Beverly Warren said.

    The relatives were sent home from the school and asked to monitor themselves for the next 21 days, school officials said.

    WEWS

    PHOTO: Frontier Airlines has confirmed that their plane, seen at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on Oct. 15, 2014, is the plane that has been decontaminated after carrying a patient with Ebola from Cleveland to Dallas.

    Vinson went on her trip after being one of the nurses who was very involved with the care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola at the Dallas hospital. She drew his blood, inserted catheters, and dealt with his bodily fluids, according to Duncan's medical records obtained by the Associated Press.

    Vinson arrived in Cleveland on Friday Oct. 10 and returned to Dallas on the evening of Monday Oct. 13. She was diagnosed with a fever, which is considered to be the first symptom of the disease, on Tuesday Oct. 14. She was tested and her diagnosis was confirmed late Tuesday.

    The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention addressed the fact that while she was not ordered into protective custody by the time she traveled, he did suggest that it was a mistake for her to do so.

    "Because at that point she was in a group of individuals known to have exposure to Ebola, she should not have traveled on a commercial airline," CDC Director Tom Frieden said today.

    The CDC reiterated, however, that they released her flight data out of an abundance of caution since she would not be contagious until she began showing symptoms.

    Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said this morning that she was dealing with her diagnosis "with grit and grace."

    Vinson will be transferred from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory successfully treated both missionaries who were the first two Americans to be diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Kent Brantley and nurse Nancy Writebol.

    They are also treating a third individual, a World Health Organization worker who has never been identified, who was admitted to Emory on Sept. 9.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ebola-n...ry?id=26218029

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    Cleaning between flight legs usually involved, cleaning out the trash from the seat back pocket,brushing the crumbs off the seats and crossing the belts and running a sweeper on the aisle.

    Frontier jet made 5 flights before taken out of service in Ebola scare


    Frontier Airlines jetliners sit at gates at Denver International Airport in 2010. The carrier is working with federal health officials to contact passengers who flew with an Ebola-stricken healthcare worker this week. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)



    By HUGO MARTIN

    Frontier Airlines jet that carried Ebola patient made five more flights before being taken out of service

    The Frontier Airlines jet that carried a Dallas healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola made five additional flights after her trip before it was taken out of service, according to a flight-monitoring website.

    Denver-based Frontier said in a statement that it grounded the plane immediately after the carrier was notified late Tuesday night by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the Ebola patient.


    Amber Joy Vinson of Dallas, traveled by air on Oct. 13, the day before she first reported symptoms.

    Flight 1143, on which the woman flew from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth, was the last trip of the day Monday for the Airbus A320. But Tuesday morning the plane was flown back to Cleveland and then to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., back to Cleveland and then to Atlanta and finally back to Cleveland again, according to Daniel Baker, chief executive of the flight-monitoring site Flightaware.com.

    He said his data did not include any passenger manifests, so he could not tell how many total passengers flew on the plane Tuesday.

    The airline said it is working with the CDC to contact all 132 passengers on the Monday flight that carried the Ebola patient.
    Frontier could not be reached to confirm the FlightAware data, and it was unclear if passengers on the additional flights were being contacted.

    The passenger "exhibited no symptoms or sign of illness while on Flight 1143, according to the crew," Frontier said.

    The plane went through a routine but "thorough" cleaning Monday night, Frontier said. Airline industry experts said routine overnight cleaning includes wiping down tray tables, vacuuming carpet and disinfecting restrooms.

    The healthcare worker also had flown to Cleveland from Dallas three days earlier on Frontier Flight 1142, the airline reported.

    In response to the news that another Ebola patient flew on a commercial flight, the union that represents 60,000 flight attendants on 19 airlines is asking the CDC to monitor and care for the four flight attendants who were on flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth.

    The Assn. of Flight Attendants “will continue to press that crew members are regularly monitored and provided with any additional resources that may be required,” the group said.

    The Ebola scare prompted the union last week to call for better measures to protect flight attendants from exposure to the deadly virus.

    The group's international president, Sara Nelson, suggested that flight attendants are being asked to do too much in the fight against Ebola.

    "We are not, however, professional healthcare providers and our members have neither the extensive training nor the specialized personal protective equipment required for handling an Ebola patient," she said in a statement.

    Earlier this month, United Airlines was rushing to contact passengers who flew on two flights that carried a Liberian man infected with Ebola from Brussels to Washington, D.C., and then to Dallas.

    The Ebola-stricken healthcare worker who flew on Frontier had been treating the Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, who has since died.

    Airline-industry stock prices have taken a beating in recent weeks, with some analysts blaming the Ebola scare.

    On Wednesday, stocks of Delta Air Lines and American Airlines fell more than 6% in early trading before partially recovering. With less than 90 minutes remaining in the regular trading session, the two stocks were each down about 2% from Tuesday's closes. Frontier is privately held.

    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...015-story.html

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    More of asked to monitor themselves? Pretty intelligent way to conduct quarantines, from Kent State U. Wait a minute, Dallas tried that, did'nt anyone inform Ohio or Kent State? It does not seem to work very well! Does anyone suspect conspiracy? If it is not conspiracy we are not learning from unnecessary mistakes. Is that a display of intelligent life? Well, probably no. more dangerous than open borders, releasing alien criminals. That seems to be what college educated derelicts are doing. Cal Coolidge said in the 1920's that we had enough of those.

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