EBOLA Possible Ebola in Wisconsin!

[Oreally]

right next door to me.


actual symptoms!

http://www.channel3000.com/news/per...onitored-for-possible-ebola-symptoms/31097034

MADISON, Wis. - A person in Dane County is being monitored for possible Ebola symptoms, public health officials said Wednesday.


Public Health Madison & Dane County spokeswoman Amy Vieth said any travelers from West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been monitored as a policy since last fall.


Approximately 30 people who traveled from those countries and returned to Dane County have been monitored by PHMDC, which means the agency checked in with those travelers daily to see if they were exhibiting symptoms of Ebola.


Meriter Hospital officials told News 3 Wednesday afternoon that a person was brought to Meriter on Monday when they became symptomatic. The patient is being monitored in an "enhanced isolation unit" for possible Ebola according to national protocols.


"It's important to immediately isolate the patient to eliminate any potential exposure to health care workers or the public," Meriter Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. Geoff Priest said. "Once we have the patient isolated we keep them in a very strict enhanced isolation environment until we can confirm the disease is not present."
Meriter officials said the patient was given a baseline Ebola test on Monday, which came back negative.


The person will be tested again in a few days, but they will still be monitored for 21 days even if the test comes back negative, officials said.


This is the first case in Dane County since October in which someone who returned from one of the West African countries has shown symptoms. Vieth said this does not mean the person has the Ebola virus. It means the person will be monitored for the 21-day period.


"It is important to know that people can only get Ebola by direct contact with the body fluids of someone who has the disease and is showing symptoms of being ill," PHMDC said in a news release Wednesday afternoon.
Vieth said there is no risk to the public.


Right now, there are no cases of Ebola in the United States, according to the CDC. Four patients have had Ebola in the United States, and one person has died.
Four hospitals in Wisconsin have the capabilities to treat Ebola, including UW Hospital and American Family Children's Hospital in Madison and Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee.
For more information about Ebola visit www.cdc.gov/ebola. PHMDC also has Ebola information available on its website at www.publichealthmdc.com/ebola.

 

[Red Baron]

I added "Possible" to your thread title.

Nothing has been confirmed yet.

 

[Bardou]

I added "Possible" to your thread title.

Nothing has been confirmed yet.

We had 2 "possibles" last week in Sacramento, CA and neither were Ebola. It's best to wait and see before panic sets in, and even then the possibilities of contracting it is slim to none.

 

[Be Well]

"It is important to know that people can only get Ebola by direct contact with the body fluids of someone who has the disease and is showing symptoms of being ill," PHMDC said in a news release Wednesday afternoon.

Umm, I remember reading people catching Ebola from someone who was infected but not yet symptomatic.

Why does everyone connected with government in any way, shape or form, always have to LIE about everything?

 

[Doomer Doug]

"The Powers that be" have declared there will many cases of NOBOLA in the USA. In fact, we have no problems at all in the USA. Obama has assured everybody of this<G>

 

[pinkelsteinsmom]

I added "Possible" to your thread title.

Nothing has been confirmed yet.

...............and it wont ever be confirmed, just another case of nobola.

 

[Oreally]

i have some serious contacts at the uw and the uw hospital system that i think i can mine over the next week or so to get some facts out of this.

of course, it wil probably turnout to be Nobola (ie., a variant of ebola that doesn't click for the current reagent test, like so many other cases since that of poor ron ogilvy in canada last april. he was visiting Guinea , never touched a dead body, or ect, flew home to canada with raging symptoms, died in isolation, tested "negative" and was buried in a closed casket and forgotten)

this is raging on. the exponential rate hasn't changed . as the lying msm would have you believe, only it as gotten more dispersed in west africa, and is certain to continue to spread world-wide.

continue to prep for a fall crisis (in this and everything else!).

 

[Abdon]

i have some serious contacts at the uw and the uw hospital system that i think i can mine over the next week or so to get some facts out of this.

That would be awesome O

 

[1eagle]

Have they changed what classifies as the 'death (certificate) symptoms' of ebola? So now maybe it's something else; flu, MRSA or what have you to not cause panic?

 

[homecanner1]

Yep, was expecting this as Dane County regional airport receives African visa students arriving to UW. Classes resumed after MLK day for spring semester, so its been a fortnight incubation period. Could be a prof or charitable missionary returned.

Watching and waiting.

Oreally keep us posted. Am surprised they went to Meriter and not UW Health campus hospital as that is the teaching hospital, as well as the local level five trauma intake IIRC. Meriter must have the superior isolation capability??

CDC very own list of the 35 Designated Ebola hospitals say UW Health is the one for central Wisc...NOT Meriter.

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/healthcare-us/preparing/current-treatment-centers.html

so there goes the established protocol...

* waves to neighbor across the pond *

 

[homecanner1]

All clear came in late yesterday afternoon to local media for the evening news, not ebola.


By: Amy Pflugshaupt - Email

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MADISON, Wis.--- Public Health Madison & Dane County reports that a traveler, who recently returned from an Ebola affected West African country, does not have Ebola.
(MGN)

UPDATE: Friday, February 6, 2015 ---11:21 a.m.

MADISON, Wis.--- Public Health Madison & Dane County reports that a traveler, who recently returned from an Ebola affected West African country, does not have Ebola.

Earlier this week the traveler was taken to a local hospital after developing symptoms.

Two laboratory tests confirmed that the individual does not have Ebola. The person is no longer in isolation and presents no risk.

Since last fall, the PHMDC has been monitoring travelers from the countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia for 21 days following their return for symptoms of Ebola.

This was the first time that a traveler returning to Dane County developed symptoms during the monitoring period, and was hospitalized

http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines...cal-hospital-290836431.html?device=tablet&c=y

 

[Natty Bumppo]

Oreally, I am very much interested in what you see here in the next couple of weeks....

1) constant government activity.

2) continued sickness by the neighbor

3) the neighbor moves in the middle of the night

4) the dress of any visitors

and so on.

 

[Countrymouse]

Has ANYONE---to this DAY----ever SEEN (as on a picture, video, news story, etc.---NOT "heard second--hand") the ORIGINAL family of that man in Texas who came here with Ebola, Thomas Duncan?

The family that was supposedly given the 'all clear' (when just NURSES treating the guy--with all the special GEAR---got sick) and released, but asked for "privacy"?


Has ANYONE heard ANYTHING about them SINCE?


Are they going back to their CHURCH there in Texas?


Contacted any of their folks?


Talked to the media--or anyone else, for that matter?


Updated their Facebook pages (with provable current pics)?




anyone????

 

[Oreally]

Oreally, I am very much interested in what you see here in the next couple of weeks....

1) constant government activity.

2) continued sickness by the neighbor

3) the neighbor moves in the middle of the night

4) the dress of any visitors

and so on.

i am reaching out to people in town.

a good friend of mine "dates" a Liberian woman, so we are going to make discreet inquires over there.

doctor appt w/ a specialist at uw hsp. in a week, etc.

 

[kittyknits]

Countrymouse--

As was the intention, most people have long forgotten about this. I admit even I haven't thought about it lately. Thanks for bringing it up.

 

[homecanner1]

I agree, they wouldn't tell us the truth with guns to their heads, see Brian Williams thread!

That they used the smaller ( more containable ) Meriter location, rather than the sprawling UW Health complex is interesting.

I will keep ear to ground also, Visa students continue to travel to and fro here, so its a potential patient zero hotspot at some point.

The answer is continual vigilance with regard to the quote in the original posted article:

"... 30 people who traveled from those countries and returned to Dane County have been monitored by PHMDC..."

That tells me they have been monitoring since fall semester several potential cases.

 

[Straycat]

A friend of mine wasn't involved in this exact case, but in another one nearby around the same time. She rode along with her cousin and the cousin's toddler to a clinic because the child had a nagging cough.

They live rurally outside a small town and have never been out of the state.
They have had no direct contact with anyone who has been out of the state.

The conversation apparently went something like this:

Dr.: Are you SURE you haven't been exposed? No travel? No family members having traveled?
CM (Child's Mother): No, no, nothing like that.
Dr: Are you REALLY, REALLY SURE? I mean, are you REAAAAAAALLLLLLY SURE?
CM: I'm sure. The closest we could possibly get is we know somebody who knows somebody who was in Africa a few months ago with the Army, but-
Dr: OMG FREAKOUT EBOLAAAAAAAA!!!!!
~SLAM~ Isolation.

Eventually, cooler heads from the State level prevailed, especially since the person they've never met who was in the Army was cleared quite some time ago, and they were allowed to go home. They did not enjoy their day.

No one is certain if the doc involved was just primed to freak out at the slightest provocation or wanted in on the attention and excitement in the news, but needless to say they won't be going back to that doc again.