Patient at Duke Hospital being monitored for possible Ebola - tested NEGATIVE

[NRaleighLiberal]

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Source: WRAL TV News website Raleigh NC

"DURHAM, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is monitoring a patient at Duke Unversity Hospital who traveled from Liberia and has developed a fever.

Officials said the patient departed Liberia and arrived Friday at Newark (NJ) Liberty International Airport, which is one of five airports in the nation that has begun screening travelers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone for fever and other signs of illness linked to the Ebola virus.

The patient had no symptoms upon arrival and had no known exposure to Ebola while in Liberia, officials said.

The patient, whose age and gender were not released, arrived in Person County on Saturday and developed a fever Sunday. The person was transferred to Duke University Hospital in Durham “using the appropriate health and safety protocols,”officials said in a statement.


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more - and will update if/when more is released

Updated link here with the Negative test result news

http://www.wral.com/duke-hospital-patient-tests-negative-for-ebola-/14142583/


Read more: http://www.wral.com/patient-at-duke-hospital-being-monitored-for-possible-ebola/14141848/

[still_one]

1. if he had no contact with ebola patients it is highly unlikely

[LisaL]

4. Mr. Duncan, even in the hospital, denied he had any contact with Ebola patients.

[still_one]

12. My comment stands. If the person had no contact with an ebola patient, it is highly unlikely that

he is infected.

You brought up Duncan. You do realize that no one in Duncan's personal life in Texas got the infection, and the only reason the care givers got it, was because the hospital was NOT trained how to deal with it, and the administration of that hospital put the care givers at unecesary risk

[Warpy]

11. Plus, it seems he's self monitoring

and checked in to the hospital just to be certain.

There really is nothing to see here, folks. Might as well move along.

[brooklynite]

2. He flew through NEWARK?

...and Chris Christie did nothing?????

[deurbano]

3. Did he run out of tents?

[TwilightGardener]

6. Asymptomatic upon airport screening.

[LeftInTX]

5. Why does the media need to report every time someone is tested for Ebola?

[Kalidurga]

7. Cuz if they don't the hair on fire crowd will forget that their hair is on fire...

[LeftInTX]

8. Haa Haa

[still_one]

13. because they are hoping for the worst. Remember how they pushed how Iraq had WMDs?

[Yo_Mama]

16. They aren't reporting all the tests, but more hospitals are giving pressers to stop rumors

Now that we have more of an isolation protocol, it's safer for hospital administrations to disclose this information rather than have it leak out in an uncontrolled manner and have reporters suddenly calling about the "secret Ebola case". Those sorts of rumors are very disruptive and waste your time.

Also, in this case they are doing contact tracing, so they want to reassure the public. This person isn't an Ebola case, but a case under investigation.

The flip side to doing it this way is that people discover that lalala! most cases investigated are in fact not Ebola Virus Disease.

[amandabeech]

9. This will probably get a lot of attention if the patient develops Ebola

because he or she traveled from New Jersey to North Carolina by bus, according to the article.

[still_one]

14. and what kind of attention will it get if he doesn't have ebola? The media were very careful not to

give too much attention to the fact that members of Duncan's friends a family in Texas all tested negative.

The media also does not discuss other risks in those regions that include Malaria

[LeftInTX]

15. Not enough

They make these Ebola scares and barely follow up if the results are negative. I had to hunt all over the place to find the results of the woman who was admitted in Oregon.

[deurbano]

21. Me, too! And when all the "contacts" clear the monitoring period...

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I found one TV news report from a Florida TV station regarding that for Duncan's contacts once he entered the hospital. And I think today is the final day of incubation for Vinson's pre-hospitalization contacts, and I could find two reports (from Cleveland). There may be more, but the point is all the hype and panic about all the people "exposed," and hardly anything once that panic proves to be unwarranted.

Update Edit:
I found a few more end of monitoring period updates, but almost all (if not all) seem to be local, like this one for a kid on the airplane Vinson flew back to Dallas and two kids who live with a healthcare worker who treated an "Ebola patient":

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/11/03/kids-go-back-to-class-after-ebola-quarantine/

We get the panic mongering national news coverage for the initial reporting... and then it fades to this brief, local update. Pathetic.


Seems this would be newsworthy:

"There are only four more days until all of Dallas County can finally be declared Ebola-free. North Texas has seen three confirmed cases of the virus, but there were more than 170 people either in direct contact with one of those patients or in possible contact with them. Friday is the day when the last few people are expected to be cleared."

[still_one]

25. This is reminisent from what I have heard from the McCarthy era. The press had no problem letting

McCarthy call his enemies communists, but when it was later proven they were not, a very small retraction was presented.

[amandabeech]

22. He or she sat on a motor coach for several hours.

When I wrote, the person's tests had not been completed.

If he or she had tested positive for Ebola, there may have been a fairly large groups of contacts to trace, and that would have made the news, certainly.

IMHO, it will take some time before the media, and indeed the majority of Americans, views a possible Ebola case or an actual Ebola as non-newsworthy.

You may not like it, but that's the way it may go.

[Voice for Peace]

10. kick

for kicking ebola wherever it pops up

[R Merm]

17. And he tested negative

http://www.wral.com/duke-hospital-patient-tests-negative-for-ebola-/14142583/

[NRaleighLiberal]

20. yup thanks - added the link to my OP.

[JoePhilly]

18. A guy on a flight from RDU to Orlando gave me something nasty ...

I was stuck in a middle seat.

He coughed and sniffed and blew his nose, the whole flight ... he had the attendant get him some water, he drank half, then spilled the other half on me.

2 days later ... I can't stop coughing, sniffing, blowing my nose. Totally Sucks.

Now I'm self quarantined and monitoring my condition.

[etherealtruth]

19. The Duke hospital patient tested NEGATIVE for Ebola!

http://www.wral.com/duke-hospital-patient-tests-negative-for-ebola-/14142583/

[Kingofalldems]

23. Republicans not liking this one.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

24. Preliminary test negative -- 72-hour quarantine -- retest, plus possible CDC analysis.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/11/02/4287831_state-duke-monitoring-recently.html?sp=/99/100/&rh=1

[bluesbassman]

26. Locking.

Host consensus is that every new "patient being monitored for Ebola" does not constitute Latest Breaking News.