The Liberian man who lied to get medical treatment in our country, left Liberia on September 19, 2014

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Today October 4, 2014 about two weeks later, he is dying from the deadly EBOLA virus.

That time line is characteristic of the virus.

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Ebola virus disease (EVD), Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), or simply Ebola is a disease of humans and other primates caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. Typically, vomiting, diarrhea, and rash follow, along with decreased function of the liver and kidneys. Around this time, affected people may begin to bleed both within the body and externally.^[1]

The virus may be acquired upon contact with blood or bodily fluids of an infected human or other animal.^[1] Spreading through the air has not been documented in the natural environment.^[2] Fruit bats are believed to be a carrier and may spread the virus without being affected. Once human infection occurs, the disease may spread between people, as well. Male survivors may be able to transmit the disease via semen for nearly two months. To make the diagnosis, typically other diseases with similar symptoms such as malaria, cholera and other viral hemorrhagic fevers are first excluded. To confirm the diagnosis, blood samples are tested for viral antibodies, viral RNA, or the virus itself.^[1]

Prevention includes decreasing the spread of disease from infected animals to humans. This may be done by checking such animals for infection and killing and properly disposing of the bodies if the disease is discovered. Properly cooking meat and wearing protective clothing when handling meat may also be helpful, as are wearing protective clothing and washing hands when around a person with the disease. Samples of bodily fluids and tissues from people with the disease should be handled with special caution.^[1]

No specific treatment for the disease is yet available.^[1] Efforts to help those who are infected are supportive and include giving either oral rehydration therapy (slightly sweet and salty water to drink) or intravenous fluids.^[1] The disease has a high risk of death, killing between 50% and 90% of those infected with the virus.^[1][3] EVD was first identified in Sudan (now South Sudan) and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The disease typically occurs in outbreaks in tropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa.^[1] From 1976 (when it was first identified) through 2013, the World Health Organization reported a total of 1,716 cases.^[1][4] The largest outbreak to date is the ongoing 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, which is affecting Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria.^[5][6] As of 28 September 2014, 7,157 suspected cases resulting in the deaths of 3,330 have been reported.^[7] Efforts are under way to develop a vaccine; however, none yet exists.^[1]

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Hospital: US Ebola patient in critical condition

AP 10/4/2014 7:23:11 PM

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DALLAS (AP) — The lone U.S. Ebola patient is in critical condition, the Dallas hospital that has been treating him reported Saturday.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan, didn't provide any further details about his condition and a hospital spokeswoman, Candace White, didn't immediately respond to emails and phone calls. The hospital previously said Duncan was being kept in isolation and that his condition was serious but stable.

Duncan traveled from disease-ravaged Liberia to Dallas last month before he began showing symptoms of the disease.

Health officials said Saturday that they are monitoring about 50 people for signs of the deadly disease who may have had contact with Duncan, including nine who are believed to be at a higher risk. Thus far none have shown symptoms. Among those being monitored are people who rode in the ambulance that transported Duncan back to the hospital before his diagnosis, said Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On Friday, a hazardous-materials crew decontaminated the Dallas apartment where Duncan was staying when he got sick during his visit. The materials were sealed in industrial barrels that were to be stored in trucks until they can be hauled away for permanent disposal.

The family who lived there was moved to a private home in a gated community, where they are being carefully monitored. The city had been having trouble finding a place that would take in Louise Troh, originally from Liberia, her 13-year-old son and two nephews.

The first Ebola diagnosis in the U.S. has raised concerns about whether the disease that has killed 3,400 people in West Africa could spread in the U.S. Federal health officials say they are confident they can keep it in check.

The virus that causes Ebola is not airborne and can only be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids — blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen — of an infected person who is showing symptoms.

Duncan arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill a few days later. After an initial visit to the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, he was sent home, even though he told a nurse he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa. He returned to the hospital two days later, last Sunday, and has been kept in isolation ever since.

The hospital issued a news release late Friday saying that the doctor who initially treated Duncan did have access to his travel history, after all. It had said Thursday that a flaw in the electronic health records systems led to separate physician and nursing workflows, and that the doctor hadn't had access to Duncan's travel history.

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Associated Press writer Emily Schmall in Dallas also contributed to this report.

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HAZMAT team cleaning out the rental apartment of the deadly EBOLA virus occupied by the

Liberian who lied to get to the USA for treatment.

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[Raya @ REAL CONSERVATIVES]

[Chris Horne]

AND WHAT ABOUT THE UNPROTECTE4D GUYS CLEANING UP THE VOMIT!!??  THERE WERE TWO AND THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN QUARANTINED, BUT WE WILL SEE IF THEY GET SICK AND HOW MANY THEY INFECT, IF U TRACK IT IN U R AT RICK, THEY ARE SOOOO STUPID!!