re: A Dallas hospital worker now has Ebola

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This proves how easily this shite spreads. The CDC and government are lying about the severity of this.

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Right, because everyone's been saying it doesn't spread easily. . .

Dumb arse.

I wasn't overly concerned with this until I read that this was a health care worker who treated an Ebola patient.

Texas Presbyterian made history in a very bad way. It's rare that Ebola gets transferred outside of Africa....and it's particularly embarrassing that the outcome of this case was that the patient died and someone else within the hospital was infected. The first patient was initially sent home even though he had fever symptoms and told the charge nurse that he had been to West Africa recently. That was a big enough mistake.

As it is now, they are expecting more cases to surface in Dallas because people did not follow protocol for whatever reason. The healthcare worker who is infected was not initially one of the 50 or so people being monitored.

I'm not saying that a pandemic is inevitable, but I think the recent news is indicative of our lack of preparedness for this type of illness.