EBOLA Whoa, did you know that there's a THIRD Ebola patient in the US? From West Africa??

Betty_Rose

Betty_Rose

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This was reported two days ago in The Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...scharged-very-soon-free-from-the-ebola-virus/

Seems they snuck one in on us. She came from West Africa on September 9th and has been undergoing treatment for five weeks now.

So now we have absolute proof that the US government really is sneaking them in under the radar. Wonder how many more there are?


The Ebola-stricken aid worker arrived in Atlanta from West Africa on a specially equipped "air ambulance" Sept. 9. The patient was driven from the airport to Emory University Hospital, then whisked into a state-of-the-art isolation and treatment facility.

The hospital declined to release any further information, citing confidentiality policies. There was no mention of where or how this person had become infected, or who this person was working with in West Africa, or where the patient was from. The patient has never been identified publicly.

Emory also remained tight-lipped about how the patient was doing, declining for five weeks to provide any updates.

But on Wednesday, as health officials announced that an Ebola-stricken nurse would be transported from Dallas to Emory for treatment, the patient released a statement through the hospital.

“Given the national focus on Ebola, particularly with the diagnosis in two health-care workers, I want to share the news that I am recovering from this disease, and that I anticipate being discharged very soon, free from the Ebola virus and able to return safely to my family and to my community," said the patient, who asked Emory for continued anonymity.​
 
Betty_Rose

Betty_Rose

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Perhaps so, but we sure have been hearing a lot about "only two patients," haven't we?

Maybe this is why Zero is "expediting travel visas from West Africa." If he can overwhelm our hospitals (which won't take much), things will collapse that must faster.
 
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Deena in GA

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Ahhh...I posted yesterday that our news mentioned Emery has two Ebola patients and one was unidentified. This must be it.
 
Baloo

Baloo

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I have read somewhere that the unidentified person at Emory is a WHO worker that was flown here from West Africa.
 
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Ledel

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dstraito said:
What about the nurse's boyfriend, I thought he had it but I'm not hearing anything about him.
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Last I heard was not that he had it but was quarantined in the hospital. I was wondering myself why in the hospital because everyone else self monitored/quarantined at home
 
NoName

NoName

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Ledel said:
Last I heard was not that he had it but was quarantined in the hospital. I was wondering myself why in the hospital because everyone else self monitored/quarantined at home
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Maybe the hospital feels somewhat responsible for him contracting it and they want to mitigate the damages awarded by the impending lawsuit...if he and his girlfriend live.
 
Krayola

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I am glad they gave an update. It was on the news that they brought a 3rd unidentified patient to Emory (Atlanta) after Brantly and Writebol but they never gave a name or any updates on if they recovered or died and this was weeks ago. I had been wondering but could never find any info. I am surprised they are still in the hospital. Most people either die or recover by now. I guess they do not want the stigma for them and their family so they are remaining anonymous.
 
Sleeping Cobra

Sleeping Cobra

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With the news going so fast i missed this thread. Thanks for reposting it. The Government isn't going to tell the truth and the Government isn't going to tell us everything that is happening.
 
Sleeping Cobra

Sleeping Cobra

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Ebola evacuations to US greater than previously known

September 9, 2014 12:25 PM

The State Department confirmed the four known Ebola patient transports but couldn’t provide details on any exposure evacuations to the United States. Phoenix Air, they said, is under contract because of its expertise.

An unnamed State Department official said “every precaution is taken to move the patient safely and securely, to provide critical care en route, and to maintain strict isolation upon arrival in the United States.”

Thompson said Phoenix Air has flown 10 Ebola-related missions in the past six weeks.

“Not everything we do is [related to] a sick person,” he said, adding that the company has also flown supplies. “We do basically whatever needs to be done.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is operating an around-the-clock Ebola emergency operations center, did not immediately respond to an email seeking information about the exposure patient transports.

On Monday, President Barack Obama, who has called the outbreak a U.S. national security priority, pledged more U.S. assistance to West Africa. The White House recently requested $30 million more from Congress to help the CDC’s efforts with the crisis.

With multiple government and aid organizations trying to tackle the unprecedented epidemic, Thompson predicts his team will be flying more precautionary patients back to the U.S.

“There will be a certain number of people who, through no fault of their own, will have an exposure event, and they are immediately identified and immediately extracted,” he said.

Phoenix Air’s modified Gulfstream III jets are “literally intensive care units with wings,” Thompson said. He said even evacuees without a confirmed Ebola diagnosis are placed in an isolation chamber for the 12- to 14-hour flight from West Africa to the U.S.

“You can never, ever let your safety guards down,” he said.

The Georgia-based air transport company got involved in the latest Ebola crisis when the Christian humanitarian group Samaritan’s Purse recruited it to evacuate Brantly and Writebol. The State Department was involved in the logistics, but the trips were funded by Samaritan’s Purse.

Since then, Thompson said, Phoenix Air has solely been under contract with the State Department.

“It became evident that we could no longer treat any of these flights as a private or commercial flight,” said Thompson, declining to divulge the specifics of the government contract.

Brantly, Writebol and the latest patient have been treated at Emory University in Atlanta. Last week, Sacra was flown to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Those hospitals, plus the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula, Montana, have specially-equipped biocontainment units built in collaboration with the CDC. However, the CDC has said any U.S. hospital following infection control recommendations and isolating a patient in a private room is capable of safely managing an infected patient.

Thompson declined to say where patients who have just been exposed to Ebola have been flown to in the U.S.

“They all go to a hospital and they monitor them,” he said. “If they do develop it, then they treat them. And, fingers crossed, they’re going to walk out the way Brantly and Nancy Writebol walked out.”

http://news.yahoo.com/us-ebola-evac...lYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDQzMF8x
 
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