EBOLA Inmate at Cobb county jail being tested for Ebola in Atlanta area

[Countrymouse]

Has anyone heard an update on this story?

last I heard was what I posted in # 35....

(and psst---I don't believe them.........)

 

[Deena in GA]

Are they saying if they have opened the jail back up? It just seems like this story is being kept as quiet as possible.

 

[Bolt]

Absolutely true! Patrick Sawyer tested negative initially. Where is he? Oh, yeah, he's dead....of Ebola. The tests are not accurate and have a very high rate of false negatives until later in the active stage of disease.

I wonder how many more "negatives" we will get before they realize the conversion rates differ possibly, and I stress possibly, due to mutating viruses. I am with you 100%. How does someone test negative and then "poof" they're dead from the same virus they tested negative for?

 

[Kris Gandillon]

Thanks. Maybe it was something I read over at Pixie's forum, but I could have SWORN I read that you have to allow time for a culture of virus to grow, and that takes about 24 hours.

???

from the Dallas Ebola thread post #742 official timeline:

Testing and tracing

Blood samples from the Dallas patient were sent to both the CDC and to the Texas public health lab in Austin, which has a team specially trained to handle high-risk specimens, said Dr. David Lakey, director of the Texas Department of State Health Services.

He said the lab received the blood sample at 9 a.m. and at 1:22 p.m. got the result back showing the sample was positive for Ebola Zaire, the strain that has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.

This was the day they announced it at 1:38pm and then had the first news conference at 4:30pm.