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Title: Craig Spencer Tests Positive For Ebola In New York City
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Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/ ... g-spencer-ebola_n_6038916.html
Published: Oct 24, 2014
Author: Andrew Hart & Anna Almendrala
Post Date: 2014-10-24 00:08:28 by nolu chan
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Views: 1053
Comments: 3
Craig Spencer Tests Positive For Ebola In New York City The Huffington Post | By Andrew Hart & Anna Almendrala Posted: 10/23/2014 8:38 pm EDT Updated: 7 minutes ago A New York City doctor who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea, tested positive for the disease on Thursday. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, reported experiencing symptoms like fever and gastrointestinal problems Thursday morning, and was transported to Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance staffed by a "specially trained HAZ TAC unit wearing Personal Protective Equipment," according to a statement from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He was found to have developed a 103 degree fever. [...] On Oct. 21, Spencer began feeling tired, but he didn't experience any symptoms until late Thursday morning, said Bassett. He also went on a three-mile jog (a sign he was "feeling quite well," said Bassett) before his symptoms. On Wednesday, Spencer took subway trains A, 1 and L, visited the High Line park, a restaurant and then a bowling alley called The Gutter in Williamsburg. The Uber driver who transported him part of the way that night is not considered at risk, said Bassett, as Spencer didn't have any symptoms at the bowling alley. In a statement, Uber confirmed that public health officials personally met with the driver in question to say Spencer posed no risk to anyone in the car, nor subsequent passengers. Of the three people Spencer had contact with since returning to the U.S., one is in isolation in the hospital, said Bassett. CNN reports that this person is Spencer's fiancee. Spencer's Manhattan apartment was quarantined. Spencer also told officials that he was in full protective gear during his time treating patients in Guinea, and is aware of no breach in safety protocols. [...]
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#1. To: All (#0)
Ebola spread by aerosol http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997182/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997182/pdf/ijexpath00004-0007.pdf Int J Exp Pathol. Aug 1995; 76(4): 227–236. PMCID: PMC1997182 Lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola virus. E. Johnson, N. Jaax, J. White, and P. Jahrling At 229: At 233: [emphasis added] Essentially, Ebola may spread more easily at lower temperature and humidity than that typical of sub-Saharan Africa.
The doctor from hell, did everything possible to spread the disease. Bowling for Ebola!
They are going to close and clean the bowling alley. Perhaps they would like to try that with the 8th avenue line of the subway, starting with the 34th and 42nd street stations (Penn Station and Port Authority Bus Terminal).
Clinical disease occurred in all four Ebola virus exposed monkeys, but not in either of the control monkeys. The clinical disease in the aerosol challenged monkeys was similar to the syndrome previously described in parenterally inoculated rhesus monkeys (Baskerville et al. 1978; Bowen et al. 1978; Fischer-Hoch et al. 1985).
We also demonstrated aerosol transmission of Ebola virus at lower temperature and humidity than that normally present in sub-Saharan Africa. Ebola virus sensitivity to the high temperatures and humidity in the thatched, mud, and wattel huts shared by infected family members in southern Sudan and northern Zaire may have been a factor limiting aerosol transmission of Ebola virus in the African epidemics. Both elevated temperature and relative humidity (RH) have been shown to reduce the aerosol stability of viruses (Songer 1967). Our experiments were conducted at 24ºC and < 40% RH, conditions which are known to favour the aerosol stability of at least two other African haemorrhagic fever viruses, Rift Valley fever and Lassa (Stephenson et al. 1984; Anderson et al. 1991). If the same holds true for filoviruses, aerosol transmission is a greater threat in modern hospital or laboratory settings than it is in the natural climatic ranges of viruses.
#2. To: nolu chan, Bowling for Ebola (#0)
Spencer took subway trains A, 1 and L, visited the High Line park, a restaurant and then a bowling alley called The Gutter in Williamsburg.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
Bowling for Ebola!
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