EBOLA Belize Confirms Dallas Nurse With Ebola Symptoms On Cruise Ship Off Its Coast...

Kendo

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naturallysweet said:
Blood samples for someone who is not showing symptoms are completely worthless. In fact, blood samples from someone who is just starting to show symptoms are almost completely worthless. So for them to rush samples off, she has been showing symptoms for days.

God help us if she just exposed 4,000 people to run around America. Will they ever let us know if she is sick or dead?
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Is it the antibody they look for or the actual virus ? To look for the virus don't they have to do a PCR analysis? That takes a few days as I recollect.
 
Lilbitsnana

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this guy is a reporter in Dallas. He is a bit behind the time and not being truthful by fudging the time period, but he does have a good side view of the chopper. (he/they must have gotten a screenshot from the Denver reporters FB page; he had posted a video on it.)

Foti Kallergis ‏@FotiKallergis 19m19 minutes ago

US Coast Guard chopper at #CarnivalMagic right now. Collecting blood sample from passenger to be tested for #ebola

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helen

helen

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Are they flying with the blood sample in the cage outside of the helicopter? Is this the preferred method?

 
Lilbitsnana

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helen said:
Are they flying with the blood sample in the cage outside of the helicopter? Is this the preferred method?
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I think they were just lifting it up into the chopper, but the post above tells how to find/view a video of it on FB if anyone is interested. (I assume the video should show the whole thing...landing, picking up and taking off)
 
babysteps

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Okay.

I'm calling it.

This has to be a gigantic, world-level, Candid Camera episode.


It DOES!! Either that or someone has cast us ALL unknowingly into a sci-fi movie. Seriously. One guy that comes to the states infected, who through slow/botched responses manages to infect family, neighbors, nurses... who then go to bridal shows and on cruises... this has to be a huge, enormous, episode of Candid Camera or next year's blockbuster movie.

All I want to know is, where's Chris Hemsworth? :lol:
 
Betty_Rose

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So, this boat is supposed to dock in 12 hours?

It'll be interesting to see if this woman walks off, unescorted and unencumbered.
 
Lilbitsnana

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Betty_Rose said:
So, this boat is supposed to dock in 12 hours?

It'll be interesting to see if this woman walks off, unescorted and unencumbered.
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Yes.

I want to see how she comes off too.

The passengers aren't even sure what will happen to them.

from several hours ago:


Eric Lupher @EricLupher7News · 8h 8 hours ago

@ekwyzla if we'll actually be allowed off with no trouble. We can only wait and see


Eric Lupher @EricLupher7News · 8h 8 hours ago

From the Carnival Magic: Biggest concern for passengers -- what will REALLY happen once we dock in Galveston? Go home? Quarantine?
 
Heliobas Disciple

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Lilbitsnana said:
I don't have/do FB, but he lists his FB page if anyone wants to search for the video.
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I don't have/do FB either but I found the video via google. I can't figure out how to embed from facebook so if anyone wants to see it, you'll have to follow the link, you don't need to be a member to watch.

The video is 51 seconds, and it looks like it starts after they picked up the blood because all you see is hovering and it leaving. I wonder if they set down on the ship or just lowered a cage for the sample.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=786777961364629

HD
 
Dennis Olson

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This is the report that will be issued:


"The woman has been taken to the NIH, where she will be monitored and treated."




You heard it here first...
 
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Heliobas Disciple said:
Read between the lines of what the prime minister is saying.

If the patient on the ship had no symptoms after 19 days she really wasn't that much of a risk to Belizians if the US sent a helicopter to land on the ship to take her straight to an American plane out on the tarmac. She wouldn't see a single Belizian on her trip back. Also keep in mind that the cruise ship had docked there earlier in the day and all the passengers who had been exposed to her had been mingling with the locals for the day (she herself stayed in her cabin - another clue, she may have been too sick to leave). So Belizians were already exposed to MILD risk of mingling with people who were possibly exposed by not infectious. Am I the only one who thinks that the only way this statement makes sense is if she HAD ebola? Because it's way overboard of a reaction if she was completely symptom free and was "only possibly involved in processing his lab samples" or some other way they described her low risk. Not something that would cause anxiety to deliberate over. ????

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Or, he's determined to hang tough no matter what. He's right, there are way too many unanswered questions. I like this guy!!
 
ainitfunny

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While THIS ship and passengers may not be at any appreciable risk, I am willing to bet there is probably at least ONE CRUISE SHIP now somewhere with one passenger who does not realize s/he has contracted an Ebola infection before boarding.
 
susie0884

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NWPhotog said:
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NWP, that badly timed article title kinda reminds me of the ill advised Hong Kong travel ad campaign during the SARS epidemic: "Hong Kong will take your breath away." Oops!
 

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Sparco

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Lilbitsnana said:
this guy is a reporter in Dallas. He is a bit behind the time and not being truthful by fudging the time period, but he does have a good side view of the chopper. (he/they must have gotten a screenshot from the Denver reporters FB page; he had posted a video on it.)

Foti Kallergis ‏@FotiKallergis 19m19 minutes ago

US Coast Guard chopper at #CarnivalMagic right now. Collecting blood sample from passenger to be tested for #ebola

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Successful operation: a medical chopper picked up a blood sample from the woman isolated on the vessel. She's deemed "completely healthy". This is under "abundance of caution".
 
Kris Gandillon

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shane said:
I think they'll get in before the sun comes up, fewer witnesses...

http://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=370491000

- Shane
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Vesslefinder notes that the LAST REPORTED time is specified in UTC. I wonder if the ETA of 8:00 is also UTC? If so, that would be 3:00am CDT. And they don't look to be more than about 30 to 45 miles offshore at this moment so THAT would work out to be about 3:00am at their current speed.
 
Kris Gandillon

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Countrymouse said:
You may be right---she looks like she's getting quite close, now:
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For a point of reference it is about 45 miles as a crow flies from downtown Houston to downtown Galveston. The ship is that close or closer to the actual port of Galveston at this point. However, I could see it taking a while to actual maneuver into port and get docked. It is not like they are going to cruise all the way into port at 13.7 knots which is what they would have to do to make it by 3:00am. Assuming the last few miles are only at less than 5 knots then it would take til closer to 8:00am to get in there.
 
Mulder

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But real the question is: Can you believe it when they tell us that she is A-OK since they've already been lying to us about so much? The unfortunate fact is that I don't see how anybody with a functioning brain-cell possibly can.
 
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Mulder said:
But real the question is: Can you believe it when they tell us that she is A-OK since they've already been lying to us about so much? The unfortunate fact is that I don't see how anybody with a functioning brain-cell possibly can.
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If a potential patient were alright, I'm sure she'd be smiling and waving to the reporters on the dock and thanking God publicly for sparing her from the Ebola virus. The potentially afflicted ALL would. 'Course, that's in a relatively 'normal' world when reporters were allowed to report (even if not quite truthfully), and the government was remotely interested in keeping the population happy - and reassured.

We don't live in a 'normal' world anymore.

One does not implement a media blackout if there's nothing to hide!


Artie.
 
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It's almost 3AM CST, where is the Magic now?

Any TV news crews, there? Any broadcast? or updates from the CDC or TX gov.? That blood test should be done by now.
 
LilRose8

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CnMO said:
It's almost 3AM CST, where is the Magic now?

Any TV news crews, there? Any broadcast? or updates from the CDC or TX gov.? That blood test should be done by now.
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Even ( especially!) if the blood test is positive, we will never hear about it. It will be negative, mark my words. UNLESS she is direly ill...then off to Atlanta or the NIH for her.
 
Kris Gandillon

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Looks to be 8-10 miles out so at 2.7 knots looks like they will indeed take until 8:00am CDT to get there.
 
Lilbitsnana

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Mulder said:
But real the question is: Can you believe it when they tell us that she is A-OK since they've already been lying to us about so much? The unfortunate fact is that I don't see how anybody with a functioning brain-cell possibly can.
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Even the people on board don't really believe she is "completely healthy".
 
Penguin Zen

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I just got a text tonight from a friend... She said a coworker's little sister is on the floating petri dish. She is scared to death.
 
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So, do we know if the passengers are going to be allowed to disembark - without screening or quarantine?

Artie.
 
Lilbitsnana

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I don't know, but they don't have that much farther to go, the woman will be whisked off before sunrise.

The ship has already progressed much farther along than screenshot above and it's only been approx 15 minutes.
 
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position http://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=370491000

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