Woman Who Sparked Pentagon Ebola Scare Doesn't Have Virus: Officials

[Baitball Blogger]

A woman who fell ill aboard a Pentagon bus Friday, sparking an Ebola scare, does not have the deadly disease, Arlington County officials said. A quarantine placed on seven Pentagon police who came in contact with the woman, as well as the 22 Marines aboard the bus, will be lifted, officials said.

The woman, a private contractor for the Pentagon, originally told first responders she had recently been in West Africa, the center of the Ebola outbreak. But investigators with the Defense Department found no evidence to support that claim and don’t believe she visited there.

The unidentified woman boarded the shuttle bus shortly before 10 a.m. to head for a change-of-command ceremony in Washington, D.C., for the Marine Corps Commandant. She suddenly fell ill, got off the bus, passed out, and then vomited in the Pentagon parking lot. She was taken by ambulance to a medical facility for treatment, including a blood test. The massive parking lot was closed and cordoned off, and the Marines aboard the bus were temporarily quarantined.


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/woman-who-sparked-pentagon-ebola-scare-doesnt-have-virus-officials-n228301

[Fred Sanders]

1. No virus? No recommends and no comments...the folks want fear.

[NightWatcher]

2. and neither will the 99.999% who think they do as well this FLU season

but that's boring.

[seveneyes]

3. "originally told first responders she had recently been in West Africa"

Why did she lie and why is she not incarcerated or out on bail for causing a panic based on lies?

[NuclearDem]

4. Well, that's one way to get your fifteen minutes.

[JI7]

5. i think if anyone does come down with ebola now it will be a nurse or some other

health care worker who had direct contact with duncan at that hospital .

i don't think anyone will get it from the 2 nurses who got it from him.

[JI7]

6. was she in any part of africa or anywhere overseas ?

[FLPanhandle]

7. Of course not.

Nor will any of the hundreds of other people who get sick as flu season approaches.

Humans are as frightened as a flock of sheep sometimes.