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Title: Dallas lab worker quarantined aboard cruise ship, other passengers stranded aboard
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/ ... gers-stranded/?intcmp=trending
Published: Oct 17, 2014
Author: Fox/AP
Post Date: 2014-10-17 12:13:19 by scrapper2
Keywords: cruise ship stranded, Dallas lab tech quarantined
Views: 301
Comments: 23
A Dallas lab worker believed to have handled specimens from the Liberian man who became the first person to be diagnosed and die of Ebola on U.S. soil is quarantined aboard a Carnival Cruise ship off the coast of Belize. The Belize coast guard is not allowing the ship to dock or its passengers to disembark, although the unidentified woman is being monitored and has not shown symptoms, according to State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. She was identified through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s effort to track everyone who came into contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who died Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital after infecting at least two nurses who have been identified and are being treated. "The employee has been self-monitoring, including daily temperature checks, since Oct. 6, and has not had a fever or demonstrated any symptoms of illness," Psaki said in a statement. "It has been 19 days since the passenger may have processed the since deceased patient’s fluid samples." Psaki said a doctor aboard the ship has monitored the woman and confirmed she is in good health. She and a traveling companion have voluntarily remained isolated in a cabin. Carnival Cruise Linessaid the CDC contacted the company on Wednesday to alert them that a passenger who may have had contact with Duncan's specimens was aboard its ship. "At no point in time has the individual exhibited any symptoms or signs of infection and it has been 19 days since she was in the lab with the testing samples," the company said in a statement. "She is deemed by CDC to be very low risk. At this time, the guest remains in isolation on board the ship and is not deemed to be a risk to any guests or crew. It is important to reiterate that the individual has no symptoms and has been isolated in an extreme abundance of caution. We are in close contact with the CDC and at this time it has been determined that the appropriate course of action is to simply keep the guest in isolation on board." The ship left Galveston, Texas, on Oct. 12. Officials said the lab worker did not have direct contact with Duncan, but may have had contact with clinical specimens collected from him. At the time the woman left on the cruise, the CDC was requiring medical workers involved in treating Duncan to self- monitor and was not restricting their travel.It has since updated requirements for active monitoring. The State Department did not confirm the location or operator of the ship the ship, but Belizean news reports identified it as the cruise ship Carnival Magic, and said it was being kept offshore after the island nation's government learned that a U.S. hospital worker on board may have been exposed to Ebola. The government assured its citizens that neither the health care nor as many as 4,000 others aboard the ship were allowed on the island. "The government of Belize reassures the public that the passenger never set foot in Belize and while we remain in close contact with U.S. officials we have maintained the position that when even the smallest doubt remains, we will ensure the health and safety of the Belizean people," the government said in a press release. The statement added that the passenger is "considered of very low risk for Ebola,” but "nonetheless, out of an abundance of caution, the Government of Belize decided not to facilitate a U.S. request for assistance in evacuating the passenger through the Phillip Goldson International Airport.” Two nurses who treated Duncan at the hospital, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, have been diagnosed with Ebola. Pham was flown on Thursday to the National Institutes of Health facility in Bethesda, Md., and is recovering. Vinson, who got clearance from the CDC to take a domestic flight from Cleveland to Dallas despite advising officials she had a temperature, is being treated at Emory Hospital, in Atlanta. The disease has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa, with most of the deaths coming in the nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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#1. To: scrapper2 (#0)
Belize government must be mad, protecting its own people. Outrageous.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I read that yesterday. Isn't that outrageous? The empty suited desk jockey bureaucrats at the FDA and CDC are going to be the death of us Americans. And today Mr. Dumb A** has appointed a non-medical doctor to be "Ebola Czar."
Here's what Dr. Rand Paul, M.D. had to say re: the CDC lying to us about the ease of Ebola transmission. Ebola is a COMMUNICABLE disease, America!
Beyond disgusting, it's criminal imo. Were I director of any hospital that had that device, I'd be using it on everyone who walked through the door. Ob0la is serious, serious business. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
The device was not usable - it needed an appropriate "kit" in place, which the FDA did not allow Presbyterian Hospital to acquire. The FDA is a very powerful agency.
The government of Belize is clearly racist. These closed nations must be brought to their senses.
I have friends going to Israel next week, cannot dissuaded.
If they're flying EL AL Airlines direct, they're probably safer going to Israel and leaving this Ebola and SV D68 cesspool called America. I don't think the Israelis engage in any pc stupid thinking when it comes to pandemics. If one case shows up in Israel, you can be sure there will be an immediate ban put in place for flights coming from Africa.
They are flying El Al because of security, however the trip is not needed.
Seriously, Cyni, don't worry. That EL AL plane they'll be on will be pristine clean and disinfected. It would be different if they were flying a Frontier or AA connecting flight to get them to NYC. Then I'd worry about them being infected with creepy stuff. No worries if they're flying only on EL AL airlines.
The government of Belize must be dealt with! How dare they consider the health and safety of their own people? Must be rayciss! Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
The rate things are going, it will be traveling Americans who will be banned from entering other nations.
They are driving to avoid that.
And we deserve to be banned for 400 years of slavery with no reparations and the growing resistance to ZOG!!!
#2. To: scrapper2 (#0)
hospital has, non-fda approved, machine that detects ob0la in minutes -
#3. To: Lod (#2)
(Edited)
#4. To: Lod (#2)
#5. To: scrapper2 (#3)
#6. To: Lod (#5)
Were I director of any hospital that had that device, I'd be using it on everyone who walked through the door.
#7. To: Cynicom (#1)
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#7)
#9. To: Cynicom (#8)
I have friends going to Israel next week, cannot dissuaded.
#10. To: scrapper2 (#9)
#11. To: Cynicom (#10)
#12. To: scrapper2 (#0)
"The government of Belize reassures the public that the passenger never set foot in Belize and while we remain in close contact with U.S. officials we have maintained the position that when even the smallest doubt remains, we will ensure the health and safety of the Belizean people," the government said in a press release.
#13. To: Cynicom, 4 (#10)
#14. To: scrapper2 (#11)
It would be different if they were flying a Frontier or AA connecting flight to get them to NYC.
#15. To: Jethro Tull (#13)
it will be traveling Americans who will be banned from entering other nations.
-Alex Kurtagic
#16. To: Jethro Tull (#13)
Good point.
#17. To: All (#0)
Another article on the Carnival cruise ship - chaos and fear: "Ebola Scare Sends Caribbean Cruise Ship Back Home"
#18. To: scrapper2 (#17)
More questionable & weird shit: By Chelsea Rice and Lara Salahi 4:30 p.m. Hot potato. Baylor Health Care System announced Friday afternoon that a patient was isolated after reporting Ebola symptoms and that they had contact with a person with the virus. The Dallas County Health Department then instructed that the patient be transferred to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, according to a statement from Baylor. But here’s the rub. Spokespeople for Texas Health Presbyterian told local news stations that they had not received a transfer patient and could not say whether the patient had been treated or released. There is no confirmation that this patient has Ebola. Texas Health Presbyterian has not responded to Boston.com request for comment. Whaddaya think about them apples?? Ebola Today: Suspected Case in Texas Goes Missing
Boston.com Staff
October 17, 2014 4:59 PM
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
#19. To: randge (#18) (Edited)
Yikes! Scary sour! I hope you don't live in Dallas. I thought CA was bad with its growing number of antibiotic resistant TB and new cases of EV-68D but now illegal Hispanic diseases look pretty mild in comparison to what Thomas Duncan brought into Texas. Whaddaya think about them apples??
#20. To: randge (#18)
If they're transferring patients out of Presbyterian, why would another victim be sent there? This is becoming circus-like.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#21. To: scrapper2 (#19)
No, we live in H-town. Still, to close for comfort. I hope you don't live in Dallas.
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
#22. To: Lod (#20)
Remember, they have to play their cards carefully. There are very few Level 4 beds in the entire country. With Pham being sent to Atlanta, there is only ONE BED left there for high level isolation. Just a few more confirmed cases and things are going to get tight. If they're transferring patients out of Presbyterian, why would another victim be sent there?
"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
#23. To: randge, Lod, christine, X-15 (#21)
Hey guys, Hairdo Perry has developed a spine and is calling for a travel ban due to Ebola! Lucky you! Now watch, my senile geezer DemRat CA. Governor will volunteer CA. hospitals to take in non-American citizens infected with Ebola for treatment in our state. "Texas Gov. Rick Perry calls for travel ban due to Ebola"
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