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Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by saint047(m): 4:53am On Oct 03, 2014
From Guinea, a country of 11 million people, the Ebola Virus Disease has spread to four other West African nations—Senegal, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leaone — killing more than 3,000 people in a matter of days. The latest destination for this near-genocide is Dallas, a small city in Texas, United States, where the first person diagnosed in the country has been quarantined alongside 80 other possible contacts.

The trip made by Thomas Eric Duncan, a former chauffeur, from Liberia to the United States on September 20 has now raised controversies on how far the virus can travel and may force countries to rethink the flight restriction policy against countries where the disease has been endemic.

Until September 17 when President Barrack Obama sent 3,000 troops to help with the transportation of medical equipments, the US been sitting on the sidelines.

Speaking at the US Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, Obama announced a comprehensive plan, which involves the construction of 17 treatment centres with 100 bed facilities each. Some 500 health care workers will also be trained weekly.

“Faced with this outbreak, the world is looking to us, the United States, and it is a responsibility that we embrace. We are prepared to take leadership on this, to provide the type of capabilities that only America has and mobilize our resources in ways that only America can do,’’ Obama had said.

However, Duncan’s trip to the US has thrown up several issues. First is the inability of officials at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to isolate Duncan on September 26, the day he first reported to the hospital.

Reacting to the development, a Consultant Gynecologist, Dr. Rotimi Akinola expressed hope that the situation would be brought under control soon. He however, remarked that the failure to isolate Duncan on his first visit to the hospital shows a natural weakness in any human system.

“There is no human system anywhere in the world that is above mistake. But they have an effective contract tracing mechanism and better record keeping. I am sure that system will rise to the occasion,’’ he enthused.

Texas hospital explains

A nurse at the Texas hospital was said to have asked Duncan about his recent travels while he was in the emergency room, and the patient was said to have told the nurse that he had been in Africa.

Executive Vice President of Texas Health Resources, Dr. Mark Lester confirmed this but that the information was not “fully communicated” to the medical team.

The man underwent basic blood tests, but not an Ebola screening, and was sent home with antibiotics, said Dr. Edward Goodman with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

Three days later, the man returned to the facility, where it was determined that he probably had Ebola. He was then isolated.

“The hospital followed all suggested CDC protocols at that time. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas’ staff is thoroughly trained in infection control procedures and protocols,” the hospital said Wednesday.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which has helped to lead the international response to Ebola, advises that all medical facilities should ask patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola for their travel history.

Duncan’s travel history “was not acted upon in an appropriate way,” said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent.

“A nurse did ask the question and he did respond that he was in Liberia and that wasn’t transmitted to people who were in charge of his care,” Gupta said. “There’s no excuse for this.”

A U.S. official told CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen that the situation was clearly “a screw-up.” A patient who shows up to a hospital with a fever and a history of travel to Liberia should be treated as an infection risk, the official said.

Asked repeatedly by Gupta whether the patient should have been tested for Ebola during his first visit to the hospital, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said officials were still looking at details about how the case was handled.

“We know that in busy emergency departments all over the country, people may not ask travel histories. I don’t know if that was done here,” Frieden said. “But we need to make sure that it is done going forward.”

Duncan is a 42-year-old Liberian national, according to his friend. This is Duncan’s first trip to the US, where he was visiting family and friends.

The close associate, who does not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case, contacted the CDC with concerns that the hospital was not moving quickly enough after Duncan’s second hospital visit.

The associate said Duncan is “all right” now, but is in pain and hasn’t eaten in a week.

He is in serious condition, the hospital told CNN. Neither the hospital nor government officials have identified Duncan by name.

Tracing contacts

A CDC team is in Dallas helping to find anyone Duncan may have come in contact with, Frieden said.

Once those people are identified, they will be monitored for 21 days — taking their temperatures twice a day — in cooperation with local and state health officials, Frieden said.

Some school-age children have been in contact with the Ebola patient, but the students haven’t exhibited symptoms of the deadly virus, authorities said.

Five students at four different schools came into contact with the man, Dallas Superintendent Mike Miles said.

The children are being monitored at home, and the schools they attended remain open, he said.

Paramedics who transported the patient to the hospital have been isolated, Rawlings’ chief of staff said. They have not shown symptoms of the disease so far, Frieden said.

The ambulance used to carry the patient was still in use for two days after the transport, city of Dallas spokeswoman Sana Syed said.

But she emphasised that the paramedics decontaminated the ambulance, as they do after every transport, according to national standards.

Pupils stay at home

Worries over Ebola kept some Dallas schoolchildren home Thursday after school officials identified five students who might have come into contact with the first person in the US to be diagnosed with the virus.

The Dallas Independent School District was still gathering morning attendance figures from four campuses where the affected students were in class earlier this week, spokesman Andre Riley said. Those students have shown no symptoms and are being monitored at home, where they are expected to remain for three weeks.

But there are already signs of parents taking no chances.

Yah Zuo left L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary on Thursday morning with her two children, including a six-year-old daughter. Zuo hoped to enrol her elsewhere.

Zuo is of Liberian origin and said she knows the family of Duncan.

“In situations like this, you cannot stay friends. You have to protect the ones you love,” ,” Zuo said.

She added, “This virus is not something you play with.”

It was not exactly clear how Duncan knew the students, but his sister said he had been visiting with family, including two nephews.
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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by chinwike2(m): 4:58am On Oct 03, 2014
GOD bless Nigeria

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Alfred200825(m): 5:04am On Oct 03, 2014
saint047: From Guinea, a country of 11 million people, the Ebola Virus Disease has spread to four other West African nations—Senegal, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leaone — killing more than 3,000 people in a matter of days. The latest destination for this near-genocide is Dallas, a small city in Texas, United States, where the first person diagnosed in the country has been quarantined alongside 80 other possible contacts.

Until September 17 when President Barrack Obama sent 3,000 troops to help with the transportation of medical equipments, the US been sitting on the sideline…
remove nigeria from that list nd besides the world is looking up to Nigeria, Nigerians and President Jonathan.

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Bennyberry(m): 5:06am On Oct 03, 2014
grin grin grin grin

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Bennyberry(m): 5:07am On Oct 03, 2014
Evil that men do live with them.USA face the nemesis

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by aumeehn: 5:12am On Oct 03, 2014
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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by mrofficial(m): 5:12am On Oct 03, 2014
Bennyberry: Evil that men do live with them.USA face the nemesis

They should have a taste of their own pill.

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Nobody: 5:14am On Oct 03, 2014
This is serious
Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by asadike(f): 5:23am On Oct 03, 2014
Na wah 4 back to sender things and why always liberia?

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Bennyberry(m): 5:30am On Oct 03, 2014
mrofficial:

They should have a taste of their own pill.
thats the way forward.

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by segzyj(m): 5:34am On Oct 03, 2014
HMmmm ........ Americans,very trickish

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by vikkyboboski(m): 5:54am On Oct 03, 2014
plot not for sale. pls keep off
Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Tallesty1(m): 6:03am On Oct 03, 2014
This Is Getting Serious............

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Icon4s(m): 6:03am On Oct 03, 2014
All flights to and from America should be banned with immediate effect and all Americans coming from other parts of the World should be quarantined and tested at our Airports. angry
Useless people let them now c how it feels angry

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by bennygreat1(m): 6:09am On Oct 03, 2014
Getting Serious For them... They had Zmapp now,they should use it.. This is one reason I don't trust these Americans.. Very trickish People..

I cover Nigeria with the Blood of Jesus..


God Bless the Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by thrizzle(m): 6:19am On Oct 03, 2014
USA has all it takes to control this, if Nigeria can.. yes we can *in Obama's voice*

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by F117A: 7:28am On Oct 03, 2014
Where is soulglo?
Ebola has entered almighty america.
What do you say about that?

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Dibiachukwu: 7:51am On Oct 03, 2014
.......

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by mesoade(m): 9:36am On Oct 03, 2014
Our borders should be closed to americans,every flight from america to nigeria should b banned.

They did this to us when the ebola was on a rampage.

They treated us like trash,like i quondamly stated"no one can make you inferior without your own consent". we allowed them make us inferior it's hight time they started paying back in their own coin.

The world i looking up to Nigeria

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by englishmart(m): 3:50pm On Oct 03, 2014
[size=45pt] Ebola knows no bounds.
Ebola is scared of nobody except ebola itself [/size]

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Beehshorp(m): 3:50pm On Oct 03, 2014
they have an African president in Obama so they should gladly accept African gifts without panic

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Nobody: 3:51pm On Oct 03, 2014
shocked shocked shocked embarassed embarassed embarassed cry cry cry grin grin grin grin

Dazall

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by akpanikpe(m): 3:51pm On Oct 03, 2014
More comment pls, make I book my space dey wait.

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Leemak: 3:52pm On Oct 03, 2014
What goes around comes around!

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by since2005(f): 3:52pm On Oct 03, 2014
hmm

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by joedejana(m): 3:52pm On Oct 03, 2014
I ran away from Nigeria to California because of this, What do I do now

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Nlmadfreak: 3:52pm On Oct 03, 2014

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Gifted4all(m): 3:52pm On Oct 03, 2014
make dem cry na

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Nobody: 3:52pm On Oct 03, 2014
Paramedics who transported the patient to the hospital have been isolated, Rawlings’ chief of staff said. They have not shown symptoms of the disease so far, Frieden said.

The ambulance used to carry the patient was still in use for two days after the transport, city of Dallas spokeswoman Sana Syed said.

But she emphasised that the paramedics decontaminated the ambulance, as they do after every transport, according to national standards.

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The Ebola patient in Dallas will not be given ZMapp, the experimental drug used to treat several international aid workers and medical staff, including at least two Americans, because stocks have run out.

ZMapp is one of the drugs that is being rushed into trials in the epidemic, along with other drugs that will need more safety data in animals and humans before they are administered to patients.

There have been very few doses available and stocks have all been used up, but the San Diego-based company behind ZMapp is pressing ahead with the manufacture of more supplies. It is not an easy drug to make, however. It includes three man-made antibodies to the virus which are grown in tobacco leaves and take months to produce. (Guardian UK, October 1st 2014)

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

DONT LET YOUR CONSPIRACIES AND HATE GET IN THE WAY OF THE TRUTH. ASK YOUR GOVERNMENT WHAT FACILITIES AND RESEARCH IT HAS PUT IN PLACE.
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Dr. David Brett-Mayor of the World Health Organization saw and conquered Ebola. He single handedly started the Ebola isolation ward having cleared and cleaned the room. He admitted and cared for the patients before any Nigerian doctor joined him.

“Professor S. A. Omilabu, the dedicated virologist at LUTH, saw Ebola and conquered it. He coordinated ......," ?(Fashola speech on October 1st)

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The Bill Gates foundation has pledged $50m to fight Ebola in west Africa, including the hot zones of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The money will go to research and funding Ebola care efforts that are both private and public.

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we are all citizens of the world, stop hating on others for their success; hold your leaders to account.

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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Codedrock(m): 3:53pm On Oct 03, 2014
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Re: Panic As America Quarantines 81 Ebola Suspects by Codedrock(m): 3:54pm On Oct 03, 2014
Wow!

*godforgiveme* for laffing after seeing the title on the frontpage..

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