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  • Officials with the CDC also said they believe the breach in protocol, ‎that led to the infections, happened sometime on September 28, 29 and/or on the 30th — a time frame that officials called the “highest risk period.” Those are the first three days when Duncan was hospitalized in isolation, before he was confirmed to have Ebola and before the arrival of a special CDC team in North Texas.

    Perhaps even more important on Wednesday, the CDC said the protective gear provided and worn by Dallas healthcare workers might have been inadequate.

    “Some of the forms of PPE (personal protective equipment) used, did allow exposure of some parts of the skin,” said Frieden. “We have discussed in detail and there are right ways to do it and the key is the adherence to protocol.”

    There have also been published reports that workers were only wearing gowns and scrubs until Duncan was officially diagnosed on September 30, and that it was only then that workers changed into hazmat suits when treating him.
    http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/3...sity-hospital/

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    • No hazmat suit of course...

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      • Always a loose end, at least one, with this moronic tale to date. There are five people in full body suits, why is Chuck Norris required?

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        • rocwell wrote: View Post




          No hazmat suit of course...
          Well... he's a goner.

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          • Heard on American radio just now, you know that nurse infected with Ebola who took a flight with 134 people while contagious? Yeah, well, the plane went on five more flights after she got off. Let that digest for a second. It's about to hit the fan.

            Turns out the CDC told her it was ok despite she was showing a slight fever. She was traveling to do wedding planning.

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            • Apparently it can only be caught if bodily fluids from someone with ebola were to enter your body. But I still don't understand why America isn't trying to control this. Its like they want people to catch it...

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              • It's caught via body fluids. If someone sneezes, ejecting droplets of mucus and you inhale that you can catch the virus.

                If someone leaves traces of fluids in objects that you touch and then say you eat something with your bare hands or you touch your mouth, eyes, nose, then you can catch it.

                Clearly it's far easier to catch than the CDC suggests and there are doctors everywhere coming out aggressively against almost everything the CDC is saying and doing.


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                • Apollo wrote: View Post
                  It's caught via body fluids. If someone sneezes, ejecting droplets of mucus and you inhale that you can catch the virus.

                  If someone leaves traces of fluids in objects that you touch and then say you eat something with your bare hands or you touch your mouth, eyes, nose, then you can catch it.

                  Clearly it's far easier to catch than the CDC suggests and there are doctors everywhere coming out aggressively against almost everything the CDC is saying and doing.


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                  In defense of the CDC, they have always been and continue to be the best central authority (probably in the world) for disease control of a pandemic nature. If not them then who? The following piece is a sober defense of the CDC and it's efforts on the subject...


                  http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgot...homas-frieden/

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                  • A hazmat team was called out to an apartment complex in Houston, Texas last night after a woman who recently returned from a trip to Nigeria was found dead.
                    http://www.infowars.com/ebola-scare-...ia-found-dead/

                    The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department (HHSD) is monitoring a Travis County resident who was a passenger on Frontier Airlines Flight #1143 from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday night.

                    While the passenger is considered low risk, and was not in close proximity to the health care worker later identified with the Ebola virus, the Health and Human Services Department is following the appropriate protocols to ensure that the individual does not present symptoms of the virus.
                    http://www.newsradioklbj.com/news/au...as-flight-1143

                    ARLINGTON, Va. (CBSDC/AP) — The Pentagon is now the latest place to suffer from an Ebola scare.

                    Around 9:10 a.m., a woman began vomiting in the Pentagon parking lot while on a bus tour, according to Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Valerie Henderson. The woman indicated she has recently traveled to Africa.
                    http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/...s-on-tour-bus/

                    This stuff is gonna be a daily affair until they close the border.






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                    • The Pentagon scare was a hoax. http://news.sky.com/story/1355428/pe...suspected-hoax

                      Apparently the CDC has 1000 people under watch, so there are going to be a lot more false alarms. I'm much more concerned about actual confirmed cases. A lot of times we hear about the alert, but not the negative tests, like the four cases in Spain:
                      http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...gative-disease

                      Also this is somewhat comforting if correct:

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                      • NoPropsneeded wrote: View Post
                        Apparently it can only be caught if bodily fluids from someone with ebola were to enter your body. But I still don't understand why America isn't trying to control this. Its like they want people to catch it...
                        Also known as natural selection to some in older times
                        A key that opens many locks is a master key, but a lock that gets open by many keys is just a shitty lock

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                        • Not to make light (too much) of a serious subject but I thought this was topical of some efforts at containment!


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                          • Well, Canada has a lot lower chance than the US.
                            The name's Bond, James Bond.

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                            • The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated. Good news.

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                              • rocwell wrote: View Post
                                The outbreak in Nigeria has been defeated. Good news.
                                Yes it is but I would be cautious because of neighbouring countries still having the problem. Nigeria also has many advantages over a Liberia or Sierra Leone starting with wealth and a more advanced health system and other institutions.

                                http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/how-nig...reak-1.2785632

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