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Researchers claim the Ebola virus disease (EVD) is rapidly and continually mutating, making it harder to diagnose and treat.
When Thomas Eric Duncan left Liberia, he made his way to Brussels and boarded a United Airlines plane for the US.
Here is what we know about the planes he took and the routing:
On Sept. 20, Duncan took a United Boeing 777 from Brussels to Washington Dulles and arrived at 2:36 p.m.
According to flight records, Duncan had three hours on the ground at Dulles, clearing customs and then boarding his connecting flight, a United Airbus 320 from Washington to Dallas that departed 5:29 p.m.
Since then, based on their tail numbers, those exact two aircraft have carried passengers to 27 different cities.
According to flight records, the 777 that flew the overseas leg was in Chicago on Sept. 29.
The airbus was in Chicago several times on Sept. 26-28 and is scheduled to be here Thursday.
originally posted by: Staroth
If it's mutating rapidly how can they possibly know we are safe in America? Just curious as to why all the "experts" keep saying this on the news. Also wondering why they never specifically say how anyone contracted it, they only say body fluids. What are people doing with each others body fluids and how easy is it to get it from the fluids and how much of what body fluid does it take to get the virus?
Researchers claim the Ebola virus disease (EVD) is rapidly and continually mutating, making it harder to diagnose and treat.
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originally posted by: muse7
I think this man knew right away that he had a high chance of having Ebola and that's why he decided to come to the U.S.
He wanted to get treated here.
some areas of concern include insufficient supplies of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), lack of isolation accommodations, and an increased need for staff members when a patient is isolated. Some nurses have also reported that they have not been informed of any emergency measures or precautionary plans for handling Ebola in their facilities.
The first patient to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the United States was picked up by paramedics at an apartment building in Dallas in the 7200 block of Fair Oak Avenue.
Dallas Fire and Rescue came to The Ivy Apartments to take Thomas Eric Duncan to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
“It’s crazy,” said Chris Barrios, who lives in the Ivy Apartments. “I can’t believe it’s here man, the last place I would expect it to be.”
Neighbors who live in the Vickery Meadow area of Dallas say they are concerned.
Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.
Mr. Duncan, who was a family friend and also a tenant in a house owned by the Williams family, rode in the taxi in the front passenger seat while Ms. Williams, her father and her brother, Sonny Boy, shared the back seat, her parents said. Mr. Duncan then helped carry Ms. Williams, who was no longer able to walk, back to the family home that evening, neighbors said.“He was holding her by the legs, the pa was holding her arms and Sonny Boy was holding her back,” said Arren Seyou, 31, who witnessed the scene and occupies the room next to Mr. Duncan’s.
Sonny Boy, 21, also started getting sick about a week ago, his family said, around the same time that Mr. Duncan first started showing symptoms.In a sign of how furiously the disease can spread, an ambulance had come to their house on Wednesday to pick up Sonny Boy. Another ambulance picked up a woman and her daughter from the same area, and a team of body collectors came to retrieve the body of yet another woman — all four appeared to have been infected in a chain reaction started by Marthalene Williams. A few minutes after the ambulance left, the parents got a call telling them that Sonny Boy had died on the way to the hospital.