Whenever I hear about the Ebola virus, this is what I think.
You’re welcome!
Ebola, the herbal disease that soothes your throat while it kills you.
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White House Petition To Ban All Flights To And From Eb
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A White House petition urging the Obama administration to change its position on allowing flights from Ebola-stricken countries into the United States has received 22,262 signatures in less than two weeks.
The petition states: “Experts had stated it was ‘highly unlikely’ that Ebola would show up on American soil. But now it has, in the City of Dallas, Texas, brought here by an individual who entered our country from the West African nation of Liberia, where Ebola is rampant.”
The petition continues, “We do not want any more Ebola-infected individuals bringing the epidemic to our shores. The longer we allow people to enter our country from Ebola-stricken areas, the higher the chance another person infected with Ebola will arrive here, putting ALL our citizens at risk. Please tell the FAA to ban ALL incoming flights from any/all Ebola-stricken regions.”
In order to receive an official White House response, the petition must receive 100,000 signatures by October 31.
An NBC News poll taken a day before the Liberian man who brought Ebola to America was diagnosed found that 58% of Americans support halting travel to Ebola-stricken areas.
Health Care Worker At Dallas Hospital Tests Positive For Ebola
A Texas health care worker who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola. The worker from the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported a low-grade fever on Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing.
Don’t be surprised if Obama orders Ebola cases in Africa be moved to the US. After all… that was his logic for handling Gitmo prisoners.
A health care worker at a Dallas hospital tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement early Sunday.
The health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who was not identified in the statement, provided care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient in the United States, who died last week.
The worker reported a “low grade fever” Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing. The preliminary result was received late Saturday.
“We knew a second case could be a reality, and we’ve been preparing for this possibility,” Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said in the statement. “We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread.”
Health officials have interviewed the patient and are identifying any contacts or potential exposures.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has come under scruntiny for its handling of Duncan, who first showed up at the hospital’s emergency room late on the evening of Sept. 25, complaining of a fever and severe pain. Although documents show that a nurse recorded early in Duncan’s first hospital visit that he recently came to the U.S. from Africa and his temperature reached 103 degrees, he was prescribed antibiotics and told to take Tylenol, then returned to the apartment where he was staying with a Dallas woman and three other people.
The Associated Press reported that Duncan’s temperature reading was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital’s record-keeping system.
Ebola Scare On Philadelphia Airplane
A man who joked about having Ebola gets taken off the plane by men in Hazmat Suits.
Let’s see… a guy on an airplane jokes about Ebola and a full Hazmat response team shows up even though he explained he was joking. Another guy shows up in the emergency room in Dallas with “actual” Ebola and 103° fever. He’s sent home and dies.
Welcome to Obama’s America!
If you’re going to be flying soon and plan on making an Ebola joke, don’t. Yesterday at an airport in the Dominican Republic, a man who joked about having Ebola and recently visiting West Africa was taken off a flight from Philadelphia by men in blue hazmat suits. Before the men boarded the plane, a flight attendant warned passengers things would “look worse than they really are.”
“Once we landed in Punta Cana we were told by the flight attendants that there was a situation and that a passenger may have been in Africa and had Ebola. She was certain it was a hoax but they did not take any chances and had a full hazmat crew board the plane and take the passenger off. It was later confirmed that the passenger was never in Africa and after 2hrs we were finally able to get off the plane,” the caption on a a video posted by Patrick Narvaez and Jukin Media states.
So, the guy who joked about having Ebola was ripped off a plane by guys wearing hazmat suits, yet the CDC would argue the people who were on the plane sitting next to him would have been totally fine if he in fact did have Ebola. Makes sense.
Meanwhile, CDC Director Tom Friedman is out with an op-ed today tripling down on his position that travel restrictions from Ebola stricken countries should not be implemented.
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