CDC confirms Texas patient is first case of Ebola diagnosed in U.S.

[jem]

wait all of a sudden a leftist is worried about legality?

I remember a recent U.S. Dept issuing a warning and the FAA suspending flights to Isreal recently.
Which seems like a perfect example of what the executive branch can do.

So perhaps we go with an executive order and a request for Congress to vote on it.
otherwise the President should ask Congress back for an emergency session.

And how exactly, legally, would you accomplish all this?

 

[Lucrum]

I have good news. The same administration that said we could keep our doctors ISIS is a JV and the world has never been safer. Also says we have nothing to fear from Ebola being in our country.
So there, we got that going for us.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Here's my worry. Some ISIS jihadists volunteer to get infected so they can come over here and openly mingle and cause an infection outbreak.

 

[Spike Trader]

Here's my worry. Some ISIS jihadists volunteer to get infected so they can come over here and openly mingle and cause an infection outbreak.

Especially if he ends up in Texas.

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Atlanta (CNN) -- It's a lapse that has Americans concerned and health officials asking how it could happen.

A man who had Ebola but didn't know it walked into a Dallas emergency room September 26. Although his symptoms could have indicated Ebola among other things, no one at the hospital asked him if he had recently traveled, a source close to the case told CNN.

The man, who had just flown from Liberia to the States didn't offer the information either, the source said, and the man left the hospital. A spokesman for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital says it's investigating whether he was questioned.

Regardless, two days passed between the time the man left and then returned to the facility September 28 where it was determined he likely had Ebola and was isolated. He tested positive Tuesday, health officials said.

The CDC advises that all medical facilities should ask for patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola for their travel history. It's possible others were infected because of the lapse.

The virus is contracted through bodily fluids. It's not like a cold or the flu, which can be spread before symptoms show up. It doesn't spread through the air.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Yeah , Huffpo,
its not on Fox as yet.
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[CaptainObvious]

Government says nothing to worry about. That's what worries me. Sort of like the government saying we're here to help. They seem awfully sure of themselves about a disease that can mutate and spread, and containment? Containment is all about restricting who comes in and out of the country and we don't make much of an attempt to control that. Lord knows we might offend someone. We'd rather risk a pandemic than do that.
http://news.yahoo.com/questions-answers-us-ebola-case-070636597--politics.html

 

[jem]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01/cdc-releases-qa-ebola-america-rumors-swirl-second-us-case

Dallas County Health Officials earlier noted at least one person who had been in contact with the first US ebola patient was also being tested for the deasdly virus. They subsequently backed off that statement (oddly). Governor Rick Perry will be holding a press conference later today to calm the public we are sure, but in the meantime, the CDC has issued a helpful Q&A to ensure Americans continued to fly, spend, and consume at their leisure and don't worry about the plague...

 

[Tsing Tao]

Especially if he ends up in Texas.

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Atlanta (CNN) -- It's a lapse that has Americans concerned and health officials asking how it could happen.

A man who had Ebola but didn't know it walked into a Dallas emergency room September 26. Although his symptoms could have indicated Ebola among other things, no one at the hospital asked him if he had recently traveled, a source close to the case told CNN.

The man, who had just flown from Liberia to the States didn't offer the information either, the source said, and the man left the hospital. A spokesman for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital says it's investigating whether he was questioned.

Regardless, two days passed between the time the man left and then returned to the facility September 28 where it was determined he likely had Ebola and was isolated. He tested positive Tuesday, health officials said.

The CDC advises that all medical facilities should ask for patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola for their travel history. It's possible others were infected because of the lapse.

The virus is contracted through bodily fluids. It's not like a cold or the flu, which can be spread before symptoms show up. It doesn't spread through the air.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Yeah , Huffpo,
its not on Fox as yet.
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that was on Fox this morning. It's old news now.

 

[DHOHHI]

Government says nothing to worry about. That's what worries me.

Just like Odumbo wasn't worried about ISIS. He was too busy playing golf and decided it wasn't important to attend security briefings as the threat escalated. Same in this case I suspect ....

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

They are refusing to say what nationality the patient is. That probably means he is african. He had to know it was important to tell the doctors he had just been in liberia. Instead, he waltzes out and likely infected dozens of other people.

We'll know in three weeks, but of course by then, those people could have infected hundreds, maybe thousands, more.

But by all means let's let travel continue without interruption. I wonder if it was Israel or Russia with the infection if this would be our attitude?

 

[DHOHHI]

They are refusing to say what nationality the patient is. That probably means he is african. He had to know it was important to tell the doctors he had just been in liberia. Instead, he waltzes out and likely infected dozens of other people.

We'll know in three weeks, but of course by then, those people could have infected hundreds, maybe thousands, more.

But by all means let's let travel continue without interruption. I wonder if it was Israel or Russia with the infection if this would be our attitude?

That's what the idiots don't apparently realize ... it can takes days for symptoms to show up .. and then those infected may blow it off at first given things may not seem too bad ... and in this time more get infected to where it could eventually start growing at an exponential rate ...