CalStateTempe wrote:I like to edit the above...Ebola patients are not contagious in the symptomatic stages. So if this patient didn't become symptomatic until arriving in Dallas, all of those in the airplane and in Brussels are fine.
I have some more good into that came across my email today that ill post when I get to a real computer and not a mobile.
as promised
Ebola Virus Disease Update
New information for September 30, 2014: According to U.S. CDC, 1 imported laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been reported in Dallas, Texas State, on September 30, 2014. This is the first ever Ebola Zaire infection diagnosed outside of Africa. The African traveler was asymptomatic on commercial flights from Liberia to the U.S. on September 19 and 20, became symptomatic with fever and vomiting on September 24, sought hospital care but was released on September 26, and was subsequently admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on September 28. He is known to have stayed with family in the Dallas area, and initial indications are of limited community contact, although the epidemiological investigation has just been initiated. EVD is not contagious during the asymptomatic phase. All contacts of this traveler while he was symptomatic will be contacted by the Texas Department of Health with support from the CDC and followed daily for 21 days. EVD should be considered in any person presenting with abrupt onset of fever or extreme malaise within 2-21 days of contact with this traveler. The risk of community-based or sustained transmission is very low.
According to the affected countries' Ministries of Health, 463 new cases of EVD and 124 deaths have been reported from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone from September 24 through September 28, 2014, as follows: Guinea, 19 new cases and 5 deaths; Liberia, 126 new cases and 106 deaths; and Sierra Leone, 318 new cases and 13 deaths. This brings the global total to 7,068 cases (including 3,221 deaths) since February 2014.
Air Cote d'Ivoire will resume air traffic to and from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone as early as this week, after suspending flights and closing its land borders in late August 2014.
This information has been incorporated into the "Ebola Outbreak Report" available from the Travax home page.
The bold is especially concerning especially since recent reports state that the correct travel history was elicited "but not fully communicated to the medical team"
This also tells me that clearly this hospital, for whatever reason, was not preparing for all possibilities and isolation of suspected patients which they rule-in/rule-out.
