SECOND EBOLA CASE reported, schoolchildren exposed

News has broken that a second person is under observation with a possible case of Ebola in Dallas. Also, the Ebola patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was likely in contact with several school-age children.


Dallas police may already be securing the hospital where Ebola patients are thought to be under observation. If Ebola is so hard to catch, why all the official response?

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - As swiftly as the disease has appeared in the United States, there are new fears it may already be out of control. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control as well as other government officials are trying to reassure a frightened public that the outbreak is contained.

It has been revealed that patient, Thomas Eric Duncan is the first American to develop full-blown Ebola on American soil, although he contracted the disease on a trip to Liberia. Worse, it is believed he has put several others, including multiple children at risk. A second person is also under observation.

It is time to pray for our nation, as we fall under the apathy of our leaders.

Officials from the CDC are now trying to find out who he may have contact with since arriving in the United States.

According to records, Duncan arrived in the US on September 20, already infected, but without showing any symptoms. It is believed that Ebola is not contagious during this time. However, when he developed symptoms on September 26, he reported to the hospital which did not ask him if he had recently traveled. Reportedly, Duncan did tell one person on the hospital staff he had recently returned from Africa, but that information was not passed along to other hospital staff. Instead, Duncan was sent home with antibiotics.

Within two days, Duncan's illness become so debilitating that he had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. The ambulance crew and others who worked with him are being sought for evaluation and possible quarantine.

In all, Duncan spent four days showing symptoms of the disease and interacting with others.

During the interval of time before his latest hospital visit, Duncan is believed to have had contact with five children who may have themselves contracted the disease. Although Ebola is supposedly difficult to catch, it seems to have had little problem propagating across Western Africa and may now have infected others in the United States.

The children who had contact with Duncan are not being quarantined, although their schools have reportedly been staffed with extra personnel to monitor for any possible outbreak and to answer questions parents and the public might have.

In addition, a second adult is under observation. This second person is believed to be a "close associate" of Duncan.

Ebola may take between four days to three weeks to manifest itself in a victim. That means anyone who had contact with Duncan will have to be monitored for at least three weeks before they can be cleared. If a second person is showing symptoms of the disease, then all associates of that person will also need to be monitored.

The disease is also transmittable through sexual contact for up to seven weeks after a person is supposedly cured.

It should be clear to all just what we are dealing with and that despite all claims that Ebola is difficult to catch and can be easily contained in the modern American healthcare system, the disease is actually much more contagious and difficult to control than the mainstream media is saying.

Source: www.catholic.org

Lobatan

(In p square's voice) E don happen......e don happen

errrr..seems the US now have theirs hands full.

Thank God it has not reached my house in California

Dis is a global issue,not jxt west Africa...hope d USA realise dis and quickly get d world a vaccine...

Gbes!
It don dey flow.
Last Bullet
I wish the US well as they manage Ebola.

The disease is also transmittable through intimate contact for up to seven weeks after a person is supposedly cured.

Please can someone explain the above sentence.

if muhammed refuse to go the mountain, mountain will come to muhammed..

Na turn by turn.

henchamb: if muhammed refuse to go the mountain, mountain will come to muhammed..

nasooo

They should use salt and water.

Omo
See danger wahana dey

iluvnaija:
The disease is also transmittable through sexual contact for up to seven weeks after a person is supposedly cured.

McWhillion:
Please can someone explain the above sentence.

What this means is that after a victim must have been cured and discharged from hospital, the virus is still in the some parts of the body like the sperm and still transferable through sexual interval, that is why cured males are asked not to engage in sexual intercourse (or at least, use condom) until after about three months after cure, this is when a cured victim can be said to have been fully cured.

Andyblaze: Thank God it has not reached my house in California

Hey dude, don't try to come home because we are not gonna accept u down here

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Time for Nigerian government to ban all flight to & from US

thewarrior72: Hey dude, don't try to come home because we are not gonna accept u down here

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Time for Nigerian government to ban all flight to & from US

in my own fatherland I'm coming this december and nothing stops me

heyhey, I dont even know how to feel! USA? Abi whiteman don dey fail ni? When it happened to Nigeria, we were called all sort of names, now its happening to the almighty. I really do not wish anybody bad, not to talk of being infected with ebola, but USA, henhen unbeleivable, I pray God grants them the wisdom to curb the thing sha!
Besides this shows that we (Africans/Blacks) could handle any of our problems without begging or kneeling before any fuccking 'super-power'

Since they have Zmapp in abundance why are they worried?


But that's none of my business

please anytime CNN shows countries (maps, lists or whatever) that has had cases of Ebola they should include US too because they are the same with us now, if fact we are better than them cos they still have an active case.

[size=13pt]Why don't i pity these people. Now they will search for a cure like No mans business!! [/size]

thewarrior72: Hey dude, don't try to come home because we are not gonna accept u down here

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Time for Nigerian government to ban all flight to & from US

including canada and mexico

McWhillion:
Please can someone explain the above sentence.

Males that have recovered from Ebola are advised to abstain from s3x as the virus still remains active in the sperm for 7 weeks after the initial 3 weeks

i hate to politicized ebola but the US made it so.

Ban all flights from North American Continent.

onuwaje: Since they have Zmapp in abundance why are they worried?


But that's none of my business

Zmapp is just another name for certain pesticide.

They should try the real deal - Bitter Kola

Nigeria should put a travel ban on US, let them fell the same stigma they showed us

Seriously the government should place a travel ban on the US. Issuance of visa to anyone residing in the US should be suspended for now, until nigeria ministry of health certify that they are Ebola free.

We have our own problems, we don't want the US to add their own.

If not for anything we will flex that we are able to put travel ban on any country that does not meet our standard

ogb5: Seriously the government should place a travel ban on the US. Issuance of visa to anyone residing in the US should be suspended for now, until nigeria ministry of health certify that they are Ebola free.

We have our own problems, we don't want the US to add their own.

If not for anything we will flex that we are able to put travel ban on any country that does not meet our standard

u.s.a is 10 times bigger than Nigeria in land mass so this doesn't hold any sense

diluminati:

u.s.a is 10 times bigger than Nigeria in land mass so this doesn't hold any sense

why so serious?




Na u catch the ebola?

diluminati:

u.s.a is 10 times bigger than Nigeria in land mass so this doesn't hold any sense

What has landmass got to do with banning all flights from N.America.
Borno state alone is bigger than belgium,croatia ,england,holland.

The American ynansh is now outside for all to see

McWhillion:
Please can someone explain the above sentence.

Me sef was surprised wen I read d statement

When Nigeria was begging u to send us Zmapp vaccine, u refused. Now, u better start bringing out your vaccine wherever you kept it.. I also look forward to seeing ur officials coming down to beg us to teach them how we stopped ebola in Nigeria. We won't teach you. Ntoor!