Star Telegram – by Bill HannaParents on Wednesday were removing their children from a Dallas school where a student may have had contact with the Ebola patient diagnosed Tuesday.
A letter to parents of children at L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary School,6929 Town North Drive, says in part:
“This morning, we were made aware that one of our students may have had contact with an individual who was recently diagnosed with the Ebola virus. This student is currently not showing any symptoms and is under close observation by the Dallas County Health and Human Services Department. As a precautionary measure, the student has been advised to stay home from school. Since this student is not presenting any symptoms, there is nothing to suggest that the disease was spread to others, including students and staff.”
At a news conference at noon Wednesday, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said students attending four different Dallas Independent School District schools possibly have been exposed to the Ebola virus.
He said the district was informed the five students were in contact with the Ebola patient over the weekend. They have been in school since, but are now at home and likely will be kept there for 21 days.
Dallas County is working with the Centers for Disease Control to have “boots on the ground” to monitor those who might have been exposed, officials said.
WFAA’s Sebastian Robertson is reporting that concerned parents are picking up their children from the school where one of the students may have attended.
The Ebola patient was visiting a neighborhood where 33 languages are spoken, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said.
According to The Associated Press, the sister of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States says he told relatives he notified officials the first time he went to the hospital that he was visiting from Liberia.
Mai Wureh says her brother, Thomas Eric Duncan, went to a Dallas emergency room on Friday and they sent him home with antibiotics. She says he said hospital officials asked for his Social Security number and he said that he didn’t have one because he was visiting from Liberia.
Duncan arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 20 to be with relatives in Dallas. He began to develop symptoms last Wednesday and sought care two days later. He was released and returned to the hospital and was admitted Sunday.
Questions arose over why the patient was released in the first place.
“He was not exhibiting symptoms consistent with keeping him. If the person is not exhibiting the symptoms there would be no reason to keep them,” Texas Health Resources spokesman Wendell Watson said. “That’s a judgment call one of the carriers would have to make. We are following up as well as the CDC and Texas Department of State Health Services.”
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This disease takes at least 21 days to develop. Sure the child does not show anything but after 21 days how many more from contact
“Dallas County is working with the Centers for Disease Control to have “boots on the ground” to monitor those who might have been exposed, officials said.”
And what kind of boots are those? Jackboots or medical boots…or both?
“The Ebola patient was visiting a neighborhood where 33 languages are spoken, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said.”
Yea, treasonous Clay Jenkins would know all about that, seeing as how he advocated the housing of illegal immigrant invaders in Dallas. That bastard is such a weasel. Just listen to him at the press conference. He looks like a child in a sports coat who doesn’t know his right from his left anymore than Perry does.
“She says he said hospital officials asked for his Social Security number and he said that he didn’t have one because he was visiting from Liberia.”
So this guy’s a foreigner from Liberia and he entered our country at a time when his country is having a pandemic crisis. Thanks for infecting DALLAS, you dumbass! I hope you’re happy, you selfish pr#@k. 😡
More info.
Liberian Government Identifies Dallas Ebola Patient
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/1/Liberian-Government-Identifies-Dallas-Ebola-Patient
Liberian Community in Texas Unites Over US Ebola Case
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/1/Liberian-Government-Identifies-Dallas-Ebola-Patient
This article shows a map of where this patient supposedly had traveled around the Dallas area over the weekend.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/us/after-ebola-case-in-dallas-health-officials-seek-those-who-had-contact-with-patient.html?_r=0
“At an African cafe down the street from the apartment complex where Mr. Duncan had been staying with relatives and a middle school attended by one or two of the students being monitored, a group of Ethiopian men and women sat talking at a table outside. No one knew Mr. Duncan or his family, and one woman was unfamiliar with Ebola and its effects.
“I touch you like this,” a man told her, tapping her on the knee, “and you get Ebola.””
On the upside he had a layover in Washington so if it is infectious and live, and not a hoax, something good can come of it? Evidence that you’re safe NC
Yep, I noticed that too. You beat me to it.
United Airlines scrambles to alert HUNDREDS of passengers who came in contract with Ebola patient as it is revealed he entered U.S. at Washington Dulles before flying to Dallas
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2776786/U-S-airlines-contact-government-Ebola-concerns.html