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Yale Student Hospitalized with Ebola-Like Symptoms

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It continues.
Let's hope Tests are Negative (we'll know very soon), But this is ridiculous.
Obumble&co Must Ban Commercial Flights and Passengers originating from the Infected countries, if not all of West Africa.
Only Special Precaution Charter flights (with quarantines in Africa) should be making the transit.


Yale Student Hospitalized with Ebola-Like Symptoms
Thursday, Oct 16, 2014 • Updated at 3:07 PM EDT
Yale Student Hospitalized with Ebola-Like Symptoms | NBC Connecticut
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A Yale University doctoral student who recently returned from Liberia has been admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he is in isolation and being evaluated for Ebola-like symptoms.

Two Yale students who had been conducting research in the West African country where Ebola is widespread returned on Saturday, Oct. 11 and have been kept in voluntary sequestration, Laurence Grothier, Director of Communication for Mayor Toni Harp, said this morning.

A patient was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital Wednesday night after showing symptoms of Ebola.

The student who was admitted to the hospital had no symptoms when he left Liberia and preliminary test results are expected back from a Massachusetts lab within 24 hours, hospital officials said.

While hospital officials said it could take a day for results to come back, Gov. Dannel Malloy said during a news conference at 2 p.m. that the preliminary tests could be back in an hour to an hour and a half.

Last week, Malloy declared a public health emergency in the state as a precaution, which granted the commissioner of the state Department of Public Health the authority to quarantine and isolate people whom she "reasonably believes has been exposed to the Ebola virus." Now, he has taken additional steps for the state to be prepared, including assembling a unified command team, led by the public health commissioner, and he has asked all hospitals to perform a drill within the next week to be sure that their procedures are up to standards.​

Earlier today:

Air France Flight Grounded in Madrid Over Suspected Ebola Virus Case

Passenger on the Flight Showed Symptoms of Ebola, Including Shaking, an Official Said
http://online.wsj.com/articles/air-...ebola-virus-case-1413462553?#livefyre-comment
 
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I hope for everyone's sake this isn't another case of Ebola, but FFS someone needs to stop the commercial planes from willy nilly going back and forth here. This is not good.
 
I hope for everyone's sake this isn't another case of Ebola, but FFS someone needs to stop the commercial planes from willy nilly going back and forth here. This is not good.

I agree, however, I know there are many on the right that will just say "Obama is abusing his power" should he stop flights.
 
Um, no they wont. This is a national heath issue.

Sure they won't sure they won't. Many on the right's hatred for Obama trumps national care.
 
It continues.
Let's hope Tests are Negative (we'll know very soon), But this is ridiculous.
Obumble&co Must Ban Commercial Flights and Passengers originating from the Infected countries, if not all of West Africa.
Only Special Precaution Charter flights (with quarantines in Africa) should be making the transit.


Yale Student Hospitalized with Ebola-Like Symptoms
Thursday, Oct 16, 2014 • Updated at 3:07 PM EDT
Yale Student Hospitalized with Ebola-Like Symptoms | NBC Connecticut
VIDEOS within Link

A Yale University doctoral student who recently returned from Liberia has been admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he is in isolation and being evaluated for Ebola-like symptoms.

Two Yale students who had been conducting research in the West African country where Ebola is widespread returned on Saturday, Oct. 11 and have been kept in voluntary sequestration, Laurence Grothier, Director of Communication for Mayor Toni Harp, said this morning.

A patient was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital Wednesday night after showing symptoms of Ebola.

The student who was admitted to the hospital had no symptoms when he left Liberia and preliminary test results are expected back from a Massachusetts lab within 24 hours, hospital officials said.

While hospital officials said it could take a day for results to come back, Gov. Dannel Malloy said during a news conference at 2 p.m. that the preliminary tests could be back in an hour to an hour and a half.

Last week, Malloy declared a public health emergency in the state as a precaution, which granted the commissioner of the state Department of Public Health the authority to quarantine and isolate people whom she "reasonably believes has been exposed to the Ebola virus." Now, he has taken additional steps for the state to be prepared, including assembling a unified command team, led by the public health commissioner, and he has asked all hospitals to perform a drill within the next week to be sure that their procedures are up to standards.​

Earlier today:

Air France Flight Grounded in Madrid Over Suspected Ebola Virus Case

Passenger on the Flight Showed Symptoms of Ebola, Including Shaking, an Official Said
Air France Flight Grounded in Madrid Over Suspected Ebola Virus Case - WSJ

Might be nearly time to stop flights coming from the US.
 
I agree, however, I know there are many on the right that will just say "Obama is abusing his power" should he stop flights.

Doubtful. This isn't a political debate. It's a national health and safety issue.

I remember the left bitching to high heaven to this day that Bush didn't stop all flights indefinitely when he received the"intelligence" that Bin Laden planned to attack with planes, which would have been the only way to stop 9/11 from happening. Where are those same people today and why aren't they complaining that Obama is allowing free air travel in spite of the warning signs (which are very real and are causing problems now).
 
Doubtful. This isn't a political debate. It's a national health and safety issue.

I remember the left bitching to high heaven to this day that Bush didn't stop all flights indefinitely when he received the"intelligence" that Bin Laden planned to attack with planes, which would have been the only way to stop 9/11 from happening. Where are those same people today and why aren't they complaining that Obama is allowing free air travel in spite of the warning signs (which are very real and are causing problems now).

Yeah and I remember the right defending Bush saying "Well we didn't know for sure". Works both ways. You just proved that politics DOES trump national health and safety issues.
 
Yeah and I remember the right defending Bush saying "Well we didn't know for sure". Works both ways. You just proved that politics DOES trump national health and safety issues.

I actually didn't prove any such thing. And my example was after the fact, wasn't it, so yes, that was a political issue. This is a current issue - and a national health issue. It needs to be addressed before it becomes a crisis, and it's addressable right now. People weren't dying in advance of the 9/11 attacks to indicate to the nation what could potentially happen, were they?

The tie in to closing the airports. Not politics and Monday morning partisan hackery.
 
How many cases from West Africa need to keep appearing in the US before they stop flights from affected countries or check passports?

Africa stems Ebola via border closings, luck

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five countries - and two of them appear to have snuffed out the disease.

The developments constitute a modest success in an otherwise bleak situation.

Officials credit tighter border controls, good patient-tracking and other medical practices, and just plain luck with keeping Ebola confined mostly to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since the outbreak was first identified nearly seven months ago.
 
Rhetorical question?

Not for long, eventually they'll (CDC) probably ban flyers who've been to those countries, till they've had a clean 21 day period. But how much worse will it get, hopefully it doesn't pick up momentum first.
 
Not for long, eventually they'll (CDC) probably ban flyers who've been to those countries, till they've had a clean 21 day period. But how much worse will it get, hopefully it doesn't pick up momentum first.

I do hope you're right, because the ban seems to be the only controllable action they can take right now.
 
I do hope you're right, because the ban seems to be the only controllable action they can take right now.

With 120-150 people a day flying into the US from those areas, it's only a matter of time before a few more cases causes enough pressure to install a 'no fly ban'. They're actually afraid if we start a ban now that it will hurt emerging countries economies, or cause other nations to restrict flights. But letting this drag on into something worse, will eventually hurt the world's finances far more. I'd rather be safe and wrong, than right and aloof about potential deadly diseases spreading.
 
Thanks to all the scare mongering pretty much anyone who coughs and goes to the ER is going to make front page news.

Ebola can have symptoms initially just like malaria or other diseases... that this student just came back from West Africa --- probably a good move to put him in isolation and check it out. With a 70% mortality rate I think if someone just came back from West Africa and has a temperature or other similar symptoms of Ebola they'd better check it out and make sure.
 
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