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There's no reason to believe any medical personnel who saw this patient was "stupid."
Now, if you want to say that someone royally screwed up, be my guest
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His care might have been routine.. It is cold & flu season here..
I am wondering when he purchased his ticket.. It could be that he feared he had been infected, and this was his way of getting better care..
time will tell
I hope he recovers and did not infect anyone in his family here..
but you know that nobody in health care gives a shit or wants to do any work? 
"You know what they say when you assume. .."
The same thing they say when a premise is based off little more than anecdotal evidence, I'd presume...
.... But... if it is so difficult to spread without close contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, then how do you suppose this Dallas patient contracted it? To me, that's the troubling question.
He knew where he had traveled, right? He surely was made aware of the Ebola outbreak in Africa. He knows what he did while he was there. So, either he was involved in some activities that posed a risk (and he should have been monitoring himself or at least thinking "I might have Ebola"
, or he contracted it in a way that was NOT on the list of high risk activities. That could mean it has mutated into a more easily transmittable strain. THAT is the biggest concern. That could get very deadly very quickly.
Pardon me if there has been published info on his activities and what was on his mind, and I missed it (I haven't had time to really catch up on the details of this story). But I really want to know more about how this went down.
and this tidbit is nor reassuring either. They aren't checking temperatures when they arrive in the US. Only when they depart Africa.
"However, it's unclear what kind of screening someone arriving from West Africa might receive when arriving in the United States, said CNN's Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. She and her crew recently reported in and flew from West Africa, where she said they were screened numerous times for Ebola by having their temperatures taken at the airport.
Should we worry?
But when they arrived back in the United States, and asked travel officials about whether their temperatures would be taken or they'd receive screening for Ebola, they were given unclear explanations about how the process worked and ultimately were not tested.
Regardless, the CDC maintains that passengers on the Texas man's plane were likely not at risk because the man was not displaying active symptoms on the flight.
