2nd case. And so it begins.

STATEMENT from RNs @ TX Health Presbyterian Hospital.

A few good quotes to get your blood boiling (from anger, not ebola)

It is pretty upsetting, especially with the second nurse mentioned being confirmed to have ebola. Having read the statement, I'm sure there will be more healthcare workers who get sick. I only hope it doesn't spread to a more general population to the point where neighbors are infecting neighbors, etc.

I don't know what to say about your comment on worrying about white people dying. It's a pretty sick disease as they go, so it's natural for concern to rise when it gets a bit closer to home and white people do live in the United States amongst other places. Do you mean that no one seemed to care about it when it was "contained" in Africa? I was waiting for it to come to the US, for sure, but I was not happy it turned up in Texas! :)

As ridiculous as it is for people to be getting as freaked out by Ebola as they are... what is with your anger? Yes, people are going to be more freaked out when it comes to their country. How dare they I guess, they must all be idiots that only care about their own race. /s (Pretending for a moment that everyone who's getting upset is white, lol.)

What really bugs me about these deadly diseases is that America and the other non-third world countries don't give a crap about Ebola when it's contained in Africa, but as soon as it lands on their doorstep, they suddenly get into action and start giving a damn. I don't like how this is spreading, but think of the poor people dying in Africa. Thousands have died in a matter of months, and they suspect up to a million people will have the disease in a couple of more months. And people in America are panicking over one casualty? And about the dog being put to sleep... while that is sad, but it was the only option. It was either let it live, or risk the possibility of spreading the virus to human beings. And would you seriously let one animal live, if it endangers the lives of hundreds, if not thousands? At least the animal was euthanized and disposed of humanely, the government in Africa have shot Ebola carriers to stop them from leaving quarantined zones, and the way they dispose of the dead is disgusting. Unmarked graves. It's not even that; it's just basically a big ditch in the ground, they shove the bodies in, and cover it all up with dirt. Sorry if this offends anyone, but it's the truth, and it's going on as we speak. If I come off sounding as a callous cow, I don't mean to be, I'm just looking at the whole issue from a medical and ethical point of view.

There needs to be a "like" button.

Kind of reminds me of when that whole "WOAH SWARMS OF BIRDS DYING.. SCHOOLS OF FISH! DYING! END OF THE WORLD?!" stuff a couple years back. I ALSO remember a handful of subetans flipping out a bit, lol.

I started writing a long post, but I'm not going to bother.

All the media outlets here in the US need to be reined in and reevaluated. The over blown hype that is going on is absolutely disgusting. And that goes for many many other events in the past few years. Holy fear mongering U.S.A.

And the stupidity that I have read on the internet comment sections and an "Ebola is a hoax" article I stumbled upon last night, there is a whole chunk of the human race that is morbidly stupid and deprived. (I can not even put into words...)

Yes the virus is a serious issue, and we need to get our ---- together because we will be our own undoing.

I think all this just shows how very dangerous and infective Ebola is. If it is not stoppable in lands with very good hospitals and gear it shows how the situation really has to be in Africa. I know how hard it is to work with infective patients... though compared to Ebola MRSA is nothing. And I know how hard it is to stop just MRSA. Just one small mistake and you expose others and yourself to danger. People shouldn't forget that nurses treat patients at the risk of their own lifes here. And it IS not easy to work 100% perfect without getting in contact with anything infective (considered how infective Ebola is). They have to treat very sick people.. so they can't stay away, they have to get very near to them and they have to work in a gear that is not very comfortable and great to work with. Sure it is easy to ask now "How was this possible.". Though to me this is no surprise considered how present MRSA is nowadays (which would be actually way more easy to stop).

One of the medical professionals in my hometown stated, openly, that the bigger threat to us this year is actually the flu. And I'm saying that as someone relatively close to one of the hospitals with one of the ebola patients in - I'm only twenty-something miles from Frederick, Maryland.

I agree with the rest of your post though - the fear mongering is going to prove more harmful than good in the weeks to come. It's already blown so out of proportion that no one knows that ebola is a very, very fragile virus when it comes down to it.

amen about the flu. Get your flu shots everyone!!!

- Oh, I agree the flu is more of bigger issue here in the States every year. (I got the flu shot the first time last year, and got in again this year because I'm around a bunch of people at work now). There are many sickly elderly and even people like my father who have weak immune systems and can not get the flu shot for medical reasons. The flu can easily turn into a really bad issue.

If, IF, there is ever that serious super virus that the media likes to fan the flames at and fantasize about, I'm saying we better have our ducks in a row and not be running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

So one of the "Ebola nurses" came into contact with children in the town I lived in when I was in Texas. One of my husband's friends has pulled his kids out of school for the next few months because of it. As much as people want to say it's "Not a big deal," it IS affecting average Americans.

You've probably seen it in the news, but we just got one here in NY. Doctor comes directly from the Ebola crisis to NY. He apparently took subways, taxis, and hung out at a bowling alley in Harlem when his symptoms began; which means he was contagious at that time. He was hospitalized yesterday and tested positive for Ebola today.

A doctor didn't even think twice about putting others at risk. And if he had intercourse with his girlfriend, she'll probably have it too. The virus lives in semen for 2 months even after a patient is free of the disease.

Duncan lied about having exposure, and this guy should have avoided public transportation for at least 21 days. WTF...Do people just think they're invincible now? Or do they really not give a crap about spreading it? The fact that it's spread through saliva (among other things) isn't comforting at all.

I don't know...I think that any healthcare workers exposed to the disease arriving from West Africa should have some kind of mandatory 21 day quarantine. This doctor was "fine" at the airport screening, but the symptoms started later on.

Whatever we're doing to "contain" Ebola really isn't working too well :/

I was just coming back to this thread to post about that. I can't believe a doctor didn't have the foresight to understand what his actions would do. What a selfish jerk.

Last I heard, it wasn't transmittable through saliva. The CDC themselves said it can be now?

I don't even know anymore. They keep changing it The doctor speaking on the news today here said it is transmittable through saliva (even sneezing)...but a person would have to sneeze near you when they have symptoms already...and it would have to get in your eye/mouth, or you'd have to touch their saliva and then touch one of your mucous membranes or an open cut. Guess you can't kiss them either.

Yes it does state saliva here http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/

Direct contact with sweat too? Really? Ugg :/

I still don't believe they are 100% sure of how it's transmitted. They've been studying it since the 1970s and they still don't know...that's kind of scary to me.

My understanding was that three of the sure ways to get it was through eating infected meat (it comes from monkeys, gather what you will), contact with bodily fluids (blood, vomit, etc) and contact with the deceased from.

But they do keep changing it so it's hard to know anymore. Last I heard, like I said, they weren't sure it could be.

Get the Clorox out.

I was really shocked to learn how many diseases were transmitted to humans by eating bushmeat. Even HIV they believe came from people eating monkeys. In Africa, most don't believe in cremation, and they normally bathe the bodies of deceased family members...it's sad that their religious beliefs/rituals are basically killing them.

Bleach kills almost everything. It still can't get my hair color off of my shower floor, but I don't think there's any disease it doesn't get rid of :p

Yeah, and they're so scared of doctors that if they do present symptoms...

There ya go. It's still bad manners to sneeze on someone, even if ebola can't be transmitted that way.

Honestly though...some people are f****** gross. People lick their fingers to count their money, then hand it to you. I've had to touch money completely WET with saliva. They lick their fingers all slurpy and gross when they go through magazines and just eww.

Children cough with their mouths open, sneeze on people, and the parents hardly ever tell them to mind their manners. I've had customers open lipstick/gloss, try it on, then put it back on the shelf. Makes me wonder how often it happens when I don't catch them.

They have left used tampons in the bathroom sink. Poop on the floor.

Gross Working in retail has just made me a germophobe. XD Had no idea people were so disgusting until I had to clean up after thm.

... Ewwwwww...