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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/nigerian-ebola-hoax-results-deaths/story?id=25842191

ABC News (Good Morning America)

Nigerian Ebola Hoax Results in Two Deaths

Two people have died and at least twenty were hospitalized, all because of a social media prank urging Nigerians to drink excessive amounts of salt water to avoid catching the Ebola virus.

The hoax started with a text message sent by a Nigerian student at the beginning of August, according to Edwin Ikhuoria, a development consultant for U2 frontman Bono’s ONE campaign who lives in Nigeria.

"Once the word was out, it spread like wildfire," Ikhuoria told ABC News.

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https://www.cbs8.com/story/26670720/the-us-ebola-case-5-things-to-know

CBS

The US Ebola case: 5 things to know
(With Video)
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
Health officials on Tuesday announced the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States - a man isolated in intensive care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
Five things to know about the case:
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Health officials say they don't know how the man was infected but he flew from the West African country of Liberia, where the outbreak is ongoing, on Sept. 19 and arrived to visit relatives in the U.S. a day later. His symptoms started around last Wednesday, he sought medical care Friday but was not admitted to the hospital until Sunday.
RISK TO FELLOW TRAVELERS
"Ebola doesn't spread till someone gets sick, and he didn't get sick for four days" after getting off the plane, so officials are not seeking out fellow passengers for signs of Ebola, said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus does not spread through the air - only through close contact with bodily fluids from a sick person, he stressed.
RISK TO PEOPLE IN DALLAS
Several family members and maybe a few community people are being monitored for possible risk - "handful is the right characterization" for how many, Frieden said.
HOW LONG RISK LASTS
People will be watched for fever or other possible signs for 21 days.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU THINK YOU'RE AT RISK
Contact the CDC, Frieden said. Call 800-CDC-INFO. State and local health officials in Texas also are working to trace any possible contacts.
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It's beginning to get out of hand. Now they are saying up to 100 people in Dallas may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U S, with 80 of them being monitored and 4 relatives quarantined in their homes. 12-18 had close contact with the patient. They are also saying that the patient vomited outside the apartment on the way to the hospital. I also read that the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas originally sent this patient home knowing he was from Liberia and exposed.

I'm concerned since I live in Oklahoma, just North of Dallas, Texas.

OMG, I just read where 5 children have been pulled from school by their parents in Dallas because the kids may have come in contact with an Ebola patient.

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Allegedly, that man lied to the Liberian authorities, presumably to get out of the country. So I wonder exactly what he told the hospital in Dallas.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29467489

The Liberian authorities say they will prosecute the man diagnosed with Ebola in the US, accusing him of lying over his contact with an infected relative.

When he left the country last month, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan filled in a questionnaire saying that none of his relatives were sick.

But Liberia's assistant health minister said he had taken a sick relative to a clinic in a wheelbarrow.

Mr Duncan is in a serious condition in a Dallas hospital.

Although the CDC has a good track record of containing infectious diseases, it does depend on people being cautious - and the more serious the disease, the more cautious people need to be.

It's very alarming, though, that there's a possibility of schoolchildren being infected. Schools are very closed environments and diseases of all kinds spread easily there.

It's a very worrying time.

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It appears from today's media reports that the local health authorities have really dropped the ball. Little or no support and advice initially given to the people living in the same apartment as the Ebola victim. That's how the potential risk was spread to a school.

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" A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. " [ Men in Black ]

every decade has had ' dreaded ' disease. for me it has been polio, small pox, scarlet fever, AIDS , MRSA, now Ebola. I am more worried about food poisoning , pesticides and herbicides or other commonly used chemicals.

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The panic associated with the expansion of an epidemic would lead people to abide, even demand, a wide order and control by the authorities.
So, thanks to the emergence of an outbreak, the mechanisms of control would be strengthened to levels that in other circumstances would be unacceptable to most of citizens.
The need to control an epidemic could lead to a dictatorial state that even the most fervent defenders of individual freedoms just accept without a murmur, because simply, social rights would no longer be the central focus of their concerns.

Well, I said this before... Marburg virus is the Mabus evil?...who knows..who cares? This is who we are
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https://news.yahoo.com/ebola-patient-thomas-eric-duncan-dies-at-dallas-hospital-201613535.html

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Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan dies at Dallas hospital
DALLAS — The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died early Wednesday, officials with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital announced.
“It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 a.m.,” the hospital said in a written statement. “Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola.”
The Liberian citizen, who recently traveled from West Africa to Dallas to reunite with a long-lost son and the teen's mother, had been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian since Sept. 28..............

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https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/08/health/ebola-us/index.html

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