Woman Being Monitored For Ebola Hospitalized In Milwaukie

[boston bean]

Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting

State health officials confirmed this afternoon that a woman who was being monitored for Ebola developed a “sustained fever” this morning in Portland.

Health officials said she was transported to Providence Milwaukie Hospital around 1:30 p.m., where she was put in an isolation unit.

The woman, who health officials did not identify, didn’t have any known contact with Ebola patients, but had visited one of the three West African countries experiencing an outbreak of the Ebola virus, the officials said.

Health officials have been monitoring her temperature twice a day, and responded immediately when she developed a fever.

Read more: http://www.opb.org/news/article/woman-being-monitored-for-ebola-hospitalized/

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This is Milwaukee Providence Hospital in Oregon.

[OKNancy]

1. same thing happened in Tulsa Thursday

The person had been in west Africa, was not exposed, developed a fever, taken to isolation, panic among the uninformed.... test came back: malaria

[boston bean]

4. Hopefully, for this women it will turn out the same. nt

[FLPanhandle]

5. Funny thing is, Malaria is the bigger risk

The Anopheles mosquito has made a huge comeback from the days of DDT and if some start feeding on a Malaria infected person, then it could spread here again.

Ebola is nothing in comparison to the deaths caused by malaria each year.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Malaria kills around 700,000

every year, but Ebola gets all the press.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

11. Most victims of malaria are children

http://www.who.int/malaria/areas/high_risk_groups/children/en/

"Children under five years of age are one of most vulnerable groups affected by malaria. There were an estimated 660 000 malaria deaths around the world in 2010, of which approximately 86% were in children under five years of age.

In high transmission areas, partial immunity to the disease is acquired during childhood. In such settings, the majority of malarial disease, and particularly severe disease with rapid progression to death, occurs in young children without acquired immunity. Severe anaemia, hypoglycemia and cerebral malaria are features of severe malaria more commonly seen in children than in adults."


Although losing a child is the most frightening thought any parent could have, malaria won't devastate an entire village like ebola can. Sadly, you can't quarantine mosquitoes, but we can donate so that more children can sleep under mosquito nets. There are numerous organizations on line if anyone wants to donate.

[mucifer]

2. Does every potential case have to be national news?

Thousands die yearly here from the flu.

One person has died from ebola in the USA. It's not the plague.

[boston bean]

3. Gee Whiz... just posting a news story in LBN at DU...

[PatrynXX]

6. panic?

think with need Elizabeth Warren in there though. Hillary Christie don't know the difference. she's too Conservative for me. and we don't need to swing that hard right. Especially now

[FLPanhandle]

8. Hopefully the public is starting to tire of story.

There are even less of the "plastic and duct tape" crowd posting here too.

[840high]

13. I don't mind.

[TwilightGardener]

14. I think it should be.

[valerief]

15. How many flu deaths are sick old people over 90?

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm

CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people.

In addition, the study confirmed previous findings that about 90% of influenza associated deaths occur among adults 65 years and older.

CDC does not know exactly how many people die from seasonal flu each year. There are several reasons for this. First, states are not required to report individual seasonal flu cases or deaths of people older than 18 years of age to CDC. Second, seasonal influenza is infrequently listed on death certificates of people who die from flu-related complications. Third, many seasonal flu-related deaths occur one or two weeks after a person’s initial infection, either because the person may develop a secondary bacterial co-infection (such as bacterial pneumonia) or because seasonal influenza can aggravate an existing chronic illness (such as congestive heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).

[heaven05]

7. drip, drip, drip

[dembotoz]

10. thank god not the wisconsin milwaukee

all that walker would need to stir fear in the largest dem city

[Worried senior]

12. I worried for a minute

too until I realized the spelling was different.

[riversedge]

16. Like he did demonizing Milwaukee in the Recall election!!

[uppityperson]

17. UPDATE, not ebola.

http://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/2014/11/02/ebola-ruled-out-for-oregon-patient/18383601/