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The Ebola patient in Dallas has passed away.

Posted: Oct 8, 2014

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Ebola is about to get much worse - sm

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USA Today:
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Burial teams responsible for collecting the corpses of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone went on strike Wednesday because of a delay in receiving hazard pay.

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/08/ebola-sierra-leone-spain/16898253/

and they didn't get the proper protection (sm) - MAD

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I did hear they are back on the job, but this is so ridiculous. Contain the outbreak where it is. Don't let anyone in the country that might be at risk. I say might, because if they go to another country first, we might not know, but it would certainly cut down on the number. It's not rocket science after all. Contain it where it is, idiot government people!!

and it doesn't help when some people are taking Tylenol or ibuprofen so they don't registe - XYZ

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nm

Blah...revised post - XYZ

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What I meant was there are reports of people who are taking Tylenol or ibuprofen so they don't register a fever - so even these new "security measures" at airports aren't really going to do much. Also the questions - do they really expect people not to lie?

Excellent point! - sm

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I hadn't thought of that.

Ebola has a long incubation period before the - victim develops a fever.

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Temp-taking at the airport only catches those beginning to have symptoms.

This board is kindergarten. No actual conversation here. - Not intelligent anyway. Bye

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nm

How sad - for

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his mom, sister, brother, girlfriend and son who were planning his wedding when he came to Texas for a visit. It's such a shame he met this fate after that simple gesture of kindness he made trying to help a distressed pregnant neighbor get to the hospital. RIP, Mr Duncan.

It is sad, and scary. - sm

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I pray that none of his contacts will become infected.

He will be rewarded in the afterlife for being such a good person.

I feel sorry for his family but not him, lied to get in US SM - anon

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knew he had been exposed to Ebola but also knew he'd be taken care of if he got over here and became ill, at taxpayer expense. Exactly what happened.

This must be - what

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a poster earlier today meant by the GOP's holier-than-thou wing. There has been not one shred of proof that Mr. Duncan knowingly lied on his airport questionnaire. It has not been established that he knew the pregnant neighbor had ebola, only the OB/GYN and ebola wards were full where they took her so she was turned away and sent home where she later died. At least 3 or 4 accounts I read said those who knew her, including family, the cab driver and other neighbors in the complex where they all lived thought her stomach pain, convulsions and vomiting were related to her pregnancy. There is no indication he was even aware of her death or that he knew others who helped her that night later died. I've seen no reports of any evidence the Liberian officials had to prove they had a basis to bring charges against him, only that they were considering the possibility of prosecution. There also have been no reports of any investigations after his arrival in the States by either hospital staff, law enforcement, the CDC or other agencies turning up any such evidence. All there has been is speculation in the media and innuendo. That's it.

The suggestion that he knew he'd be taken care of once he got here, at taxpayer expense no less, is no better than an utterly disgusting bald-face lie, a supposition laced with racist overtones and dog-whistle mentality. The smug certainty that punctuates this perjurious prattle smacks of phony moral superiority we have all come to expect from the right.

Let's say for the sake of argument that ASYMPTOMATIC Mr. Duncan knew he had been exposed, and that his keen ESP accurately forecast he would test positive for ebola 5 days in the future following his arrival. I don't know a single solitary human being in those circumstances who wouldn't do anything and everything within their power to try to fight for his or her own survival. It's the nature of the beast. We are hard-wired that way, all of us, including even the highest and mightiest among us.

IMO, there is little I can think of that is more loathsome than speaking ill of the dead, especially when one deliberately fabricates unfounded slander and deceit while traveling on this lowest of the low roads. This man contracted a horrible disease and suffered an agonizing death, yet certain partisans rush in so they can line up to kick the corpse around one last time. Appalling.

Beautiful post. Thank you. - nm

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Yeah, bring em all over here to be taken care of. They can easily come over through Mexico. NM. - we won't catch ebola

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Is there some special transit line - from W. Africa to Mexico?

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As of now there are no cases documented in Mexico. What is the obsession with the border?

I still stand that it is going to come through LaGuardia, Washington National, O'Hare, etc.

As soon as the first case is documented in Central America thee will be. - xx

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And they'll all be fleeing North for treatment. I agree with the airports you mentioned.

They are not all in W Africa - all over the world

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and coming through the borders.

Thanks Mr. Make believe Prez.

Another fact-free observation from the outskirts - of reality

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Please point to one case of ebola--just one--from "all over the world" that did not originate in West Africa. Make sure to alert us to the specifics of those hordes penetrating our "borders."

All they have to do is wear their pointy tinfoil - hats, & they"ll be safe.

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xm

Where all over the world? - another poster

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Where did you get this information? Would you kindly care to back up your assertion with facts?

That's right, blame Ebola on the Prez. Following - that mindset, lets blame it on Boehner.

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Or that intellectual giant, Rick Perry. After all, it was HIS state the first Ebola victim died in. Must be PERRY'S fault. Or hey - if we're gonna blame Ebola on somebody, let's blame it on George Bush, because it's so easy.

What does this nonsense - have to do with

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the right deliberately spreading lies and speaking ill of the dead? Nothing, except it's just another sterling example of how desperate the right is to politicize a disease epidemic to advance unpopular agendas. Their racist, xenophobic and class-based bigotries are cultural anachronisms, throwback values of a dying breed destined for extinction.

Not nonsense. Try reading the news - not the lib cheerleader

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wish it was true news.

CDC and WHO know exactly where ebola is, and - it ain't Mexico.

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Speaking of make believe

He HAD NO SYMPTOMS when he arrived, - and didnt for several days.

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If you get it, I reckon not too many people will be feeling sorry for you, either.

Disturbing that the best that American medicine could throw at - ebola failed to save him.

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I haven't been surprised when people in countries with less advanced medical science haven't survived, but this is very sobering because we threw everything we had at this case - some of the top ID specialists, virologists, etc.

Certainly shows how deadly this virus is, doesn't it?

I don't mean to seem crass, but the question deserves - to be asked...

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How much did this man's care cost the health system? It's a pretty good bet he didn't have health insurance!

I'm not minimizing the tragedy of the situation, but thinking about down the road, what a fiscal disaster it's going to be if/when we're looking at a significant outbreak of this disease.

What in the world is there about this post to "dislike"??!! - The question is very important and...

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...I hope we do get to hear how much it costs to treat an ebola patient. I can't imagine what anyone could possibly object to about that.

The post is disliked because it's abysmally - SELFISH.

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I'd rather be selfish and alive than PC with Ebola - NM

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xx

I'd rather listen to the facts instead of making up doomsday scenarios. - nm

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You know how in every disaster-movie, there's - always one untrustworthy person?

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You know... the one who throws someone else under the bus, or into the cauldron of the volcano, or into the jaws of an alien man-eater, in order to save his own skin? Well look in the mirror, "Selfish & Alive", cuz that's YOU, and it's a disgusting reflection on America in the 21st century.

and they're usually fine at the end of the movie. Thanks! - selfish & alive

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nm

They usually aren't, actually. They're usually - the ones that die the worst deaths.

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And of course, that's always the part of the movie that gets the whole audience cheering.

It was not simply the cost to treat - an ebola patient

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It was the cost of keeping our entire population as safe as possible from this man and others who enter our country, knowingly or unknowingly, with this horrible virus, the cost of setting up future protocols, the cost of contacting every single person he could have possibly passed the virus on to.

I can't imagine why anyone could possibly object to any cost associated with that.

Spend a little, save a lot. - BTW, the drug is still highly experimental.

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My, my... such a kind and charitable bunch you Republicans are. Every post made by that group on the subject of Ebola just gets more and more despicable.

They didn't throw the best at him - One of the survivors

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offered blood transfusion, but did not hear back. He didn't receive proper care when he should have been first diagnosed. How is this the best care?

I think it boils down to... - thinker

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...the fact that he wasn't treated until after his liver and kidneys were affected, and by then it was too late. Maybe if he had been treated earlier, he'd have survived.

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