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uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 04:11 PM Oct 2014

More "Because...EBOLA!11!" happenings

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/health/ebola-overreaction/index.html
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Navarro College, a two-year college about 60 miles from Dallas, sent out rejection letters to some applicants from Nigeria because the country had a few Ebola cases.

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A passenger who vomited in the aisle of an American Airlines plane from Dallas to Chicago was allegedly told to stay in the lavatory for the rest of the flight. "They told her to stay in the bathroom, and she stayed in the bathroom," Martha Selby, a University of Texas professor who was on the flight, told the Houston Chronicle. "They said, 'We can't let you out.'"

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An elementary school teacher in Maine was put on 21 days' leave - the incubation period for Ebola -- because she went to Dallas for an education conference. While there, she stayed at a hotel about 10 miles from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where a patient died of the disease.

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A West African high school soccer player in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, was taunted with chants of "Ebola" by players of the opposing team during a game earlier this month. The opposing team's head coach and assistant coach resigned the next day.

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A TSA agent at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is now on paid administrative leave because he/she pat down Amber Vinson. She's one of the nurses who contracted Ebola after treating Duncan. And before her illness was apparent, she took a Frontier Airlines flight to Cleveland, then a flight back to Dallas. The agent wore gloves during the pat down, the TSA told Newsnet5 in Cleveland. And yet, the leave was "out of an abundance of caution."....(more)




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2798553/brief-hysteria-hits-dallas-woman-said-ebola-watch-list-vomits-crowded-train-platform-did-live-apartment-complex-patient-zero.html
Woman spits on platform, hazmat teams called.


Other Du threads, just to put them together.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025691513
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025691113
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More "Because...EBOLA!11!" happenings (Original Post) uppityperson Oct 2014 OP
"Oh noes!! Ebolaghazi!!11!" lpbk2713 Oct 2014 #1
Ebolaghazisis!!11 Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 #2
Hyperbolebola!! JoePhilly Oct 2014 #3
Meanwhile, the family members that lived with a symptomatic and sick Thomas Duncan alcibiades_mystery Oct 2014 #4

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
3. Hyperbolebola!!
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 04:22 PM
Oct 2014

New strain.

Spread by the media and internet.

Causes panic attacks and delusional behavior.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
4. Meanwhile, the family members that lived with a symptomatic and sick Thomas Duncan
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 04:27 PM
Oct 2014

and then lived in the apartment for days afterward do not seem to have contracted the disease.

People: they were in close quarters with a very sick Ebola patient who subsequently died of the disease.

They have not yet been reported to have contracted the disease.

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