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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| First Ebola Case In MA |
| 2014-10-13 |
| Five miles from my house. Thanks, Obama! Boston officials are stepping up efforts to spot Ebola cases after the Hub area was hit by its first scare yesterday, when a man who recently visited Liberia was quarantined after walking into a Braintree medical clinic complaining of head and muscle aches. Boston hospital officials downplayed the danger last night, saying the likelihood the Braintree patient had Ebola was "extremely low." Yesterday's scare came amid a report that a Dallas nurse who wore a protective suit while treating the Ebola patient who died last week also contracted the deadly disease -- in what a local ER chief called "a game-changer" because it's the first time someone has caught Ebola in the U.S. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #12 Got mine the beginning of the month, Cap. My firm gives them out to all employees who want one. Last year they not only gave me my flu shot, they gave me my needed pneumonia booster shot (which I had planned on paying my doctor for). I love my job. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-10-13 17:56 |
| #11 Outbound Dallas flight held on tarmac 3 hours after Ebola-suspect passenger gets ill during flight |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-13 17:48 |
| #10 My sincere thanks Cap. I immediately copied your #9 and forwarded to friends and family. Your short paragraph and prudent suggestion may have save some lives. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-13 17:22 |
| #9 I would like to encourage all Rantburgers to strongly consider getting a flu shot this week. Contact in HC/ infectious control is telling me that if Ebola stays in the news past the "short attention span news theater", you will not want to be showing up at any medical facility with common flu like symptoms. Chances are you will be put in the room with all the other fever sufferers while they rule out Ebola. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2014-10-13 16:37 |
| #8 I lived in Woburn for 2 years. I liked it there. I liked Boston a lot. Made some good friends and dispelled some myths about southerners. I probably re-inforced some others. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-10-13 15:33 |
| #7 My mistake, AH9418 - I should have put a question mark in the title. I'll follow up on this post once the hospital in question (Beth Israel Deaconness) confirms the results of any test. |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-10-13 15:24 |
| #6 Funny. No street corner pressure cookers? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-13 15:07 |
| #5 I talked to my brother who lives near Boston yesterday. He hasn't seen any dead Ebola patients in the streets, no severed heads, either. Life is good there. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-13 13:03 |
| #4 Please don't call any "Ebola cases" unless & until the blood tests are +. No point in spreading more FUD than is warranted by facts. Discussions of policies & defense strategies against Ebola are a different matter. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-13 13:02 |
| #3 Raj, I used to live in Braintree and we drove through it yesterday. Now I live about 35 miles west. I'm staying here and taking in the welcome mat. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-13 12:52 |
| #2 Moved. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-13 12:27 |
| #1 Sorry, mods - please move. |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-10-13 11:28 |