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Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention johannesburg south africa travel alerts Dr. Tom Frieden speaks during a news conference after confirming that a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States, announced Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Atlanta. The person, an adult who was not publicly identified, developed symptoms days after returning to Texas from Liberia and showed no symptoms on the plane, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
A national public health official today said there was zero risk of transmission johannesburg south africa travel alerts of Ebola on a commercial airline flight that a Dallas patient who has tested positive for the disease johannesburg south africa travel alerts flew on from Liberia earlier this month. Related Airline stocks sink after first U.S. Ebola case confirmed in Dallas (Updated at 3:45 p.m.) Ebola case in Dallas confirmed by CDC, first diagnosis in U.S. Video: What you need to know about Ebola Frequently asked questions about the Ebola virus
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention johannesburg south africa travel alerts Director Tom Frieden said today in a live briefing from Atlanta that the person a male who remained unnamed showed johannesburg south africa travel alerts no symptoms before boarding the plane and was not contagious. The CDC doesn t believe there is any risk to anyone who was on the flight at that time, he said.
The patient arrived in the United States on Sept. 20 to visit family, Frieden said. He developed symptoms johannesburg south africa travel alerts on Sept. 24 and went to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas emergency room two days later, but was sent home. He was admitted johannesburg south africa travel alerts to the hospital on Sept. 28 and placed in isolation johannesburg south africa travel alerts and tested johannesburg south africa travel alerts for Ebola.
johannesburg south africa travel alerts The CDC has not shared specific patient information that would allow us to confirm whether the traveler’s itinerary involved United. The CDC emphasized johannesburg south africa travel alerts that the traveler was not symptomatic, could not have been contagious during the travel, and that there is “zero risk” to anyone who may have been on the flight.
American Airlines does not fly to Africa and we have been told the passenger was not on a connecting flight involving our aircraft, said spokeswoman Andrea Huguely, a spokeswoman for the Fort Worth-based carrier.
The CDC has posted Ebola Guidance for Airlines on its website for airline crews and cleaning johannesburg south africa travel alerts and cargo personnel. It includes guidelines about general johannesburg south africa travel alerts infection control precautions, stopping ill travelers from boarding johannesburg south africa travel alerts aircraft johannesburg south africa travel alerts and what do do if you think you ve been exposed.
Doing a little research online, I m willing to bet this individual flew from Liberia to Brussels on a Brussels Airlines flight the evening of 9/19 then connected to a United Airlines transatlantic from Brussels to either Chicago, Newark, johannesburg south africa travel alerts or DC before continuing on to DFW.
Still does not eliminate the risk. You could very easily have connecting flights out of europe from the hotzones. You could have people visiting Spain that run into someone from Liberia there and then they return from Spain to US and Liberian never comes here at all.
Even going into your house and locking the doors and duct taping plastic around all the entrances is not zero risk. Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting delivery systems. It will take more than stopping flights to outsmart it.
But don t say ZERO risk and then say you BELIEVE there was no risk. . The CDC is only going off of data suggesting contagious periods. The virus would not act the same in any two people nor would the contagious window be the same on any two people. There is no way they can know 100% for sure there was ZERO risk. The only way to have zero risk would be if nobody on the plane had a viral count at all nor did anyone on the plane or anyone who had touched the plane or anyone who had touched anything that went on the plane could be ruled out from transferring infected fluids to the plane or someone on it. Once again.. VERY MINIMAL risk but rarely is risk an absolute zero in any situation.
He said there is zero risk before the positive johannesburg south africa travel alerts test in Dallas. After 100 deaths in TEXAS he will continue to say the same thing. He should watch out. His kids may get infected if he keeps his arrogance and lives in denial.
3. Since they refuse to stop people from travelling from the epidemic zone, where they admit Ebola is out of control , I asked what plans the CDC has for ensuring that Ebola does not become resident in US wildlife johannesburg south africa travel alerts populations, which would cause Ebola outbreaks here as they do in Africa. They had no answer.
So everyone that feel people that work at the airport are getting paid too much? I think not. They come in contact with people that are sick and contagious all the time. There are also the people that allow their loved ones with dementia and Alzheimer s fly alone and expect the agents to be accountable. They don t just collect bag fees and reseat passengers. So enlight of this new concern stop dogging them out.