Is Dallas Co Sheriff Deputy a second Ebola case?

[pnwmom]

He went into Duncan's apartment but the CDC says he didn't have direct contact with Duncan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2785514/Second-person-rushed-hospital-Ebola-symptoms-contact-patient-zero-Thomas-Duncan.html

The second person with Ebola symptoms is reportedly a Dallas County sheriff's deputy who went to the apartment of first patient Thomas Duncan.

The individual, who has not been named, walked into a Texas clinic on Wednesday and told medics he had been in contact with first victim Mr Duncan.

The CareNow clinic in Frisco, Texas was immediately placed in lock-down after the person appeared on Wednesday and was exhibiting signs of the deadly virus.

The CDC told MailOnline today that the person is not one of the 48 contacts being monitored, and there is no indication of any direct contact with the initial patient, Mr Duncan, in Dallas.

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[Dreamer Tatum]

1. I thought people were quarantined? How can he just "walk in" to a clinic?

Jesus. WTF is going on in Texas?

[pnwmom]

2. He wasn't in the group that's being monitored, apparently because he had no direct contact

with Duncan or the ambulance.

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. I wonder then if he's being too careful.

Or if the media is jumping the gun.

[pnwmom]

4. There's probably no such thing as too careful, in the case of Ebola.

I'd rather he be a false alarm, wouldn't you?

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. Which is why I wonder if the media is a little quick here.

Maybe he just doesn't feel well. Eh. Who knows.

[Wait Wut]

10. Read your subject line again.

When isn't the media a little quick? I'm surprised they haven't published a list of every person in the continental U.S. that has coughed in the last two weeks.

Lets just hope, for his sake, that this is just a case of the flu or a bad cold.

[tularetom]

8. Or he's laying the ground work for a worker's comp claim

I don't believe it's possible to be too cynical about stuff like this.

[TwilightGardener]

6. You know, if he really thought he might have ebola, he should have phoned

a real hospital and made arrangements to arrive in the most isolated way possible, rather than walking in to an urgent care clinic, for god's sake--where they do sprained ankles and flu shots.

[LeftInTX]

18. +++++

[City Lights]

7. I thought the second possible Ebola case said he'd been in West Africa.

I think we just don't know enough yet to say who it is.

[pnwmom]

9. I wonder if he checked that just to make sure they took him seriously. Or maybe

he thought that his being inside an apartment belonging to someone who'd been in West Africa was close enough.

[City Lights]

11. Good point.

I hope we get more information soon.

[WinkyDink]

20. He was IN THE NOW-DECEASED DUNCAN'S APARTMENT, not merely "someone who'd been in West Africa...."

[pnwmom]

27. I realize that. But the CDC doesn't consider the contaminated apartment to be "direct contact."

[ecstatic]

12. If so, the CDC will have to immediately notify everyone who

was given false assurances about safety.

[Go Vols]

13. Live feed here waiting to begin

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/category/264130/stream-1

[City Lights]

14. Press conference is reporting that he had no direct contact with Duncan,

but was in the apartment and had contact with others living there.

[jwirr]

15. Before or after the apartment was cleaned?

[City Lights]

16. They didn't specify whether it was before or after. nt

[WinkyDink]

22. It wouldn't have been cleaned WITH DUNCAN STILL THERE.

[City Lights]

23. Right, but it took awhile to clean the apartment after Duncan left, and they didn't say

whether this person was there before or after the cleaning was done. If he was there before the apartment was cleaned, I would have expected him to be in the group of people being monitored.

[jwirr]

24. That makes a whole lot of difference pr they would not have sent in a hazmat team to clean it.

[B2G]

17. The deputies and the judge went in before

the apartment was cleaned.

[WinkyDink]

21. Obviously before. The apt was cleaned after it was evacuated.

[Whiskeytide]

19. A couple of things....

... Why does a deputy go to the apartment of a known Ebola case without protective gear? I'm assuming he went there after the issue became known (I haven't heard of law enforcement going there for some other reason before the diagnosis - like a domestic dispute, and I'm pretty sure we would have heard ALL about that if it had happened).

And if your the deputy, wouldn't you look around at all the chaos around this, maybe find someone with a CDC badge around their neck, and pose the question "hey, do you think I fucked up?", and get yourself on the damn monitoring list.

Maybe this is the hoax I've seen referenced. Or maybe he just has the flu and they are being overly cautious - if so, never mind. But it looks like a developing story now, and I am just bewildered at how our system keeps shooting itself in the foot.

[WinkyDink]

25. Because, remember, IT'S NOT AIIIIRBORNE! So PLAINLY he had nothing to fear if he didn't TOUCH

Duncan.

#bloodysheetsnotwithstanding #ifyouthinktheywereonlysweaty,haha

What "hoax"?
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Frisco-Investigating-Possible-Ebola-Case-278555081.html

Dallas County sheriff's deputy in Frisco who said he was feeling ill and who had been in the apartment of Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who died of Wednesday of Ebola, has been hospitalized.

The person was transported to the hospital is a deputy with the Dallas County Sheriff's Office who was in Duncan's apartment, Sgt. Chris Dyer with the Dallas County Sheriff's Association confirmed to NBC 5.

NBC 5 has confirmed the man is Sr. Sgt. Michael Monnig with the Dallas County Sheriff's Office.

Dyer said the symptoms exhibited were not Ebola-like, but because he was feeling ill and had been at the apartment he was transported to Texas Health Presbyterian out of an abundance of caution.~~~~~~
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As to WHY no protection: they followed orders.

"The deputy was ordered to go inside the unit with officials to get a quarantine order signed. No one who went inside the unit that day wore protective gear."

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/10/08/patient-frisco-ebola-suspect/16924603/

[Whiskeytide]

28. Hoax = I saw something about a high school...

... kid posting something about a second Ebola case in Frisco a few days ago, and getting arrested for inciting panic, etc.... It now seems clear this deputy case is unrelated to that event.

[PADemD]

31. What about the deputies who were sent to find the homeless man

who rode in the ambulance immediately after Mr. Duncan and before the ambulance was decontaminated?

Could the sick deputy be one of those?

[Cali_Democrat]

26. It's my understanding that he didn't need to have to have direct contact with Duncan to get Ebola

Just direct contact with Duncan's fluids.

[angstlessk]

29. Someone said, the cure was 3 white people away

well, the white folks who were flown into America were saved, but the black man died..

[pnwmom]

30. They had run out of Zdapp or they might have given it to the missionaries in Spain

who were diagnosed before Duncan.

Duncan might have had a better chance, however, and so might the white nurse in Spain, if they were tested as soon as they developed any fever, rather than waiting for 101.5. The biggest mistake was sending Duncan home.

[darkangel218]

32. Hey are you alright?

Please check in

[angstlessk]

33. For now

I do anticipate he will kill me and my friend...he is now wielding the axe when he is angry and drunk..there are times when there is nothing one can do except accept the inevitable...hey, I drink too...not sure what will happen to me if I cannot drink?

[darkangel218]

34. Dont even say that!!!! Call the cops!!!

Let us know if we can call help for you!! NO, you cannot "accept the inevitable..."
Please stay strong and let me know, or anyone else, of how we can help you!! That asshole has no right to take your life away!!! And that has nothing to do with wether you "drink" or not!!!!


Please please please, let us know if we can help in any way!!!!

[hopemountain]

35. run! choose to save yourself!

choose! yes, you do have a choice. you say no one will help you and that you don't want to leave your things and all that you worked so hard for - i can understand this thinking. btdt. i can tell you, that there IS something better for you out there and that it is your choice. no one or anything can be responsible for making that choice for you - other than you. i hope some day you are on here posting: what took me so long? what was i so afraid of that i risked my life?