We had a patient come to our ER on monday & he was the same decent as duncan. He was shytting EVERYWHERE & it smelled like a dead person feces after they die. We put him in a OR isolation room. Blood tests came back negative, turns out he has upper gastrointestinal bleeding that was causing all his problems but it was very surreal & chaotic.
I think the other shoe will drop ONLY if another patient dies. Right now the family who had direct contact with duncan have no symptoms, neither does anyone who directly entered the apt including Dallas county judge clay jenkins who went in with no gear.
This what people don't understand. Have you ever seen a person with full blown aids??? Are you aware of the massive amounts of vomiting & diarrhea that goes along with that, the symptoms are like that with ebola patients. The disease has to be "active" in order catch it & that's what I think is being lost, when you have a high fever along with diarrhea, that alone is very contagious coupled with blood mixed in with it can be a disaster & that's how the RN's caught it.
For those who don't know Texas Health(presby dallas) is one of the best hospitals in the state & in the country. If this would've happened at parkland, baylor or a HCA hospital then we would have MAJOR problems dealing with this disease....