Health officials: Test results are negative for Dallas County deputy. He does NOT have Ebola.

[herding cats]

DALLAS -- The Texas Department of State Health Services says negative results were returned from a lab in Austin Thursday, indicating that a Dallas County deputy does not have the Ebola virus.

This is a breaking news update. Check back for more on this developing story.

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/09/ebola-test-results-negative-dallas-county-deputy/16984093/

[bravenak]

1. I figured it was flu season and we 'd have some scares.

[herding cats]

2. Yes, it's going to happen

In this case they were extra careful since the man had been to the apt. where Mr Duncan was staying. As it turns out all is fine and the man will be able to go home to his family now.

I love a happy ending.

[bravenak]

4. Me too!

I bet he was hating the hospital as much as I do. But, still, I'm glad he went to get tested, just in case.

[yellowcanine]

8. I still think he was a bit drama queenish for calling an ambulance.

Sounds as if he could have driven himself to the ER, which would have been a lot safer for others if in fact he did have Ebola. It also sounds as if the symptoms were fairly mild - stomach ache, slight fever - again, drive yourself. One of the first rules in first aid is that the patient does as much as possible for themselves as long as it is safe, of course. If he is light headed maybe it is a different story.

[bravenak]

10. He may have been a bit of an attention seeker.

I think he will get made fun of by his coworkers for long enough to feel embarrassed. I take cabs to hospitals. That way I don't have to worry about my car.

[B2G]

15. He ddn't call the ambulance

the care facility he went to did.

He wasn't being a drama queen, he did what he should have. You would be singing a different tune had he tested positive.

[Princess Turandot]

25. He drove to an outpatient care center in his own car because he was feeling ill...

they heard his complaints, then learned that he had been in the apartment where Duncan had stayed. They decided to send him to the hospital for testing/isolation to be on the safe side and called an ambulance to do it.

[tanyev]

36. I don't understand why he went to CareNow.

Given his involvement in the Duncan case, it seems like he should have called that hospital or the TX Health dept and let them decide what to do next.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. As happy as I am for him,

you KNOW he's going to get a ribbing back at headquarters.

[herding cats]

5. You bet he will!

I feel pretty confident he's also going to be so relieved that he's going to take it with a huge smile.

Hey, at least his butt was covered when they were parading him around in that disposable gown on TV.

[Sissyk]

6. That's great news!

A few more days and all the contacts will be out of the woods also, right?

[herding cats]

13. Yes, I think we're down to 9 days?

They're almost out of the woods.

[etherealtruth]

7. That is good!

[herding cats]

14. It sure is.

At least for us, I imagine the media cried a silent tear over their loss.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Will a helicopter follow his car ride home?

[herding cats]

12. Wasn't that a circus?

The media should apologize to the public for their fear-mongering.

[MineralMan]

11. My theory about that guy was always that it was the menudo he

ate as a hangover cure. That tripe soup will get you if it's not well prepared. I love it, but only if I clean the tripe myself and cook it myself.

[herding cats]

17. Heh, you could be right.

I've had bad menudo once. It was an experience I will never forget!

[MineralMan]

18. In Texas, menudo is the standard hangover cure.

I don't know if it actually works, but a bad batch will make you wish you still had the hangover instead.

I grew up eating menudo on Sundays. Not for the hangover cure, but because many of my friends mom's made it and I always ended up with a bowl of it in front of me somehow. Most times, it was fine, but a couple of times...wow!

[herding cats]

24. I never knew that about menudo being the hangover cure of choice in Texas.

I suppose if you eat bad menudo it'll make you forget you have a hangover, so either way you'd be cured.

[LeftInTX]

19. LOL - I don't know about that

Gotta have an acquired taste for it. Husband's family is Tex-Mex and they eat it only once a year. (New Year's) My MIL makes it.

I can't stand the stuff...

[MineralMan]

20. I love the stuff, but I'm careful about its source.

The town I grew up in was about 50% Hispanic. I ate everything, starting from early childhood. My mother also grew up in a heavily Hispanic town in Arizona. She makes absolutely the best tamales I've ever eaten. From a recipe of an old next door neighbor when she was a kid.

Uff da! Now I live in Minnesota. Fortunately, St. Paul, my city has a Cesar Chavez Boulevard and an authentic Mexican market. In fact, I think I'm going to make a gross of tamales sometime around Christmas and invite all my wife's relatives over for a traditional Mexican Christmas Eve tamale feed. I'll tone them down a little to suit their Scandihoovian tastebuds, but not much.

[LeftInTX]

22. That's great that you'll be making tamales

Love them homemade stuffed full of meat and low on masa. I think your in-laws will love them!

[Aerows]

28. That looks delicious

..drool..

[uppityperson]

16. k&r

[FLPanhandle]

21. Wait until flu season kicks in.

Hundreds of people heading to the hospitals thinking they have Ebola.

This is becoming a stupid panic and the media should be ashamed.

[kestrel91316]

23. He needs to lay off the bacon donuts.

[notadmblnd]

26. I hope all those who ran around here with their hair on fire yesterday

see this.

[pnwmom]

27. What is your definition of "hair on fire"? I didn't see anyone like that. n/t

[notadmblnd]

33. read #5 at this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025639985

[Fred Sanders]

30. Same folks who will now pretend they did understand the science, they were just being "cautious".

[TorchTheWitch]

34. no one was running around with their hair on fire

No one has been at all concerning anything about Ebola, but some people sure like to complain that it's happening when it isn't.

If you want to observe people here running about with their hair on fire check out any thread that has anything to do with police.

[notadmblnd]

35. yeah, ok.

[Fred Sanders]

29. The hair on fire crowd and media have no, nada, zilch, 0 people with Ebola in America to fear?

Now what?

[Louisiana1976]

31. That's good news. Guess he must just have had stomach flu.

[TorchTheWitch]

32. good to hear

I'm sure he's hugely relieved.