BeBop Posted September 30, 2014 Report Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) (CNN) -- A patient being treated at a Dallas, Texas, hospital is the first case of Ebola virus diagnosed in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. Several other Americans were diagnosed in West Africa and then brought to the United States for treatment. --------------- I'm going to West Africa on Saturday to do some volunteer/relief work, but this is troubling news, depending on forthcoming details. Edited September 30, 2014 by BeBop Quote
BeBop Posted September 30, 2014 Author Report Posted September 30, 2014 Follow-up: Not such a big deal. He'd just returned from Liberia. Hopefully he didn't infect anyone in the US. Quote
kh1958 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Posted September 30, 2014 I drive by that hospital several times a week; it's about a mile from my house. Quote
Guy Berger Posted September 30, 2014 Report Posted September 30, 2014 Many, many more Americans will die of the flu than of ebola over the next year. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted October 1, 2014 Report Posted October 1, 2014 Yes, but Ebola is the new threat and the flu has always been there... Quote
kh1958 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Posted October 1, 2014 They are certainly all worked up on the local news. Quote
JSngry Posted October 1, 2014 Report Posted October 1, 2014 Dude, they stay all worked up on the local news, especially Meredith Land. It's because Texas connexus, and she's the biggest connexuster of 'em all. Quote
kh1958 Posted October 1, 2014 Report Posted October 1, 2014 Taking it all in stride with a pretty awesome version of My Favorite Things (Live at Temple University). Quote
Joe Posted October 1, 2014 Report Posted October 1, 2014 I've seen quite a bit of surprise expressed in both the mass and on social media that Ebola would be diagnosed first in Texas, and specifically Dallas. (And at the hospital where I was born.) But for those who know anything about the neighborhoods adjacent to Texas Health Presbyterian, and for those who know anything about where refugees to the United States find opportunities to start their lives over and make their homes, that surprise is tempered by concerns that this population will suffer more trauma and stigmatization because of misinformation about and panic over this disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickery_Meadow,_Dallas Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 2, 2014 Report Posted October 2, 2014 They are certainly all worked up on the local news. That's pretty much their job, isn't it? To be worked up over something. Anything. Quote
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