DALLAS (AP) — A Texas health care worker who provided hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive for the virus, health officials said Sunday in a statement. If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.

A statement posted on the Texas Department of State Health Service's website said "confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta."

http://news.yahoo.com/state-health-officials-2nd-ebola-case-texas-102955708.html

Might see a few more before it is over!

Yep, we are still in the incubation period.

Slide this under the door

Just make sure no one sneezes on it.

CDC: Protocol breach in treating Ebola patient


WASHINGTON (AP) — A top federal health official says the Ebola diagnosis in a health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at a Texas hospital shows there was a clear breach of safety protocol.

Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the worker had treated Duncan multiple times after the Liberian man was diagnosed.

Frieden tells CBS' "Face the Nation" that all those who treated Duncan are now considered to be potentially exposed. Frieden couldn't give an exact number.

Health care workers treating Duncan were to follow CDC protocol that included wearing protective gear.

Among the things CDC will investigate is how the workers took off that gear — because removing it incorrectly can lead to a contamination.

Duncan died of the disease last Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/cdc-protocol-breach-treating-ebola-patient-133253723--politics.html

great.

I'm glad we have water here, and these too.



Also ALL health care workers are tested on their knowledge of how to take off PPE gear. So I kinda think those in the immediate care were following protocol.

I know I post pictures of Pizzas and all that, but all joking aside, just how hard is this Ebola to catch.

The experts say it's hard to catch as long as you're sensible, but these doctors and nurses are wearing full PPE and they are catching it, so what chance have us mere mortals got, so who is kidding who here?

I'm really worried by this Ebola, cos I don't like Pizza

Not liking pizza is unamerican. Oh wait never mind.

Last week, a woman entered at least two doctors offices in Sherman, Texas
about 65 miles north of Dallas, coughing on people and claiming to have ebola.

At last report, she has been arrested and remains in custody.

Just been on the news here that even more people from this medical team may have caught Ebola.
WTF

if we can send a man to the moon, we can quickly eliminate this as well

we CREATE and study viruses here at our CDC , they have what they need

but, the money involved in allowing it to prevail for a while far outweighs the money involved in eliminating it,,,,


as far as the greed goes, I would worry,,, but when fear supercedes greed,, the threat should decline

From what I've been hearing,
ebola is as easy to catch, as the common cold.

maybe they're not washing the freaking door knobs? sheesh

We bleach everything down, several times a day... Just because.

At work? the public exposure?...yeah.

Yup!
We don't want cooties in the office.

Thanks a lot Stan.
I usually find your posts quite funny,
but not this time

The virus weaponizes all your bodily fluids. The coughing and sneezing aerosolize your saliva, allowing transmission over a greater distance.

The real problem is that the more people that become infected, the greater the chance the virus has to mutate into a different strain. Each time it changes, it can add new properties. Like becoming truly airborne.

stan is right. And dropplets being coughed or sneezed from blood expelled in those droplets due to the breakdown of clotting...yes, that is airborne.

In some medical hospitals they have enclosed quarantine rooms with the air out take recycled and filtered/cleaned. This is the way it should be done, if it is, I have no idea.