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A patient at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States, federal health officials announced Tuesday.
The patient was in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, which had announced a day earlier that the person’s symptoms and recent travel indicated a possible case of Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected a handful of Americans who have traveled to that region.
The person, an adult who was not publicly identified, developed symptoms days after returning to Texas from Liberia and showed no symptoms on the plane, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said the patient came to the U.S. to visit family and has been hospitalized since the weekend.
State health officials said no other cases are suspected in Texas.
What percent of that 1/4 would be attributed to illegal entry into this Country?
Not only that Harold but every single one of them can get treatment at any hospital. so Dewey is once again just bomb tossing.
Ebola isn’t the only health issue to worry about. There’s also a repertory disease going around the county affecting children and leaving them with polio-like symptoms.
Doctors see polio-like symptoms in enterovirus-68 patients:
“A Stanford doctor has suggested a link between enterovirus-68 and polio-like symptoms, but doctors at Children’s Hospital in Boston — who are monitoring four possible cases of the respiratory illness — say that while they also are seeing some alarming symptoms, they aren’t yet convinced of a link.
“Now we have an outbreak of EV-D68 on a widespread basis and polio-like symptoms on a widespread basis,” said Dr. Keith Van Haren, an assistant professor of neurology at Stanford University. “It would be a really remarkable coincidence if these two events were unrelated.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/09/doctors_see_polio_like_symptoms_in_enterovirus_68_patients
Also dicey strains of TB!
Dewey, the Center for Disease Control is responsible for containment of infectious disease like Ebola, it’s not the Surgeon General and it’s not the NRA. And the Republicans had nothing to do with it either. You seem to have no ethical compass when it comes blaming the republicans or NRA. I’m getting sick of this. Dewey, you have been warned and warned and warned! We are a free speech site, but we must have a few rules. You can’t come here and smear just for your own personal politics. Tina and I won’t have it.
DEWEY YOU ARE BLOCKED FROM POSTING – YOU always go TOO FAR.
I didn’t see this until Sunday Evening, Jack. My internet connection was down for over 24 hours. I’ll keep a sharp eye.