<p>Hopefully its just a bug of some sort. But, they say he and his family returned from Africa Saturday night, and by Sunday he had 103 fever, was vomiting and was “really out of it”. Is it really possible he didn’t have a low grade fever when he arrived in the US Sat night?</p>
<p>The article said they have not tested him for Ebola, which sounds strange, considering his recent travels and symptoms. I know it could be other things, but why not rule out Ebola in case other household members need to start self monitoring.</p>
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So, if the governors changed their policy, why can’t this nurse be transported to her home in Maine? She is ASYMPTOMATIC and has had 2 negative ebola tests.
<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/26/health/us-ebola/index.html”>N.Y., N.J. governors clarify Ebola policy - CNN;
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<p>He’s a little kid. They do spike fevers.</p>
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Anything is possible. It is also possible that he was given a fever-reducing medication in order to get into the US.</p>
<p>^ Or it’s possible he had no temperature when he arrived in NY. I know when my S was a child he would often seem perfectly fine and the next morning wake up sick and with a temperature. I am sure I am not the only one with a kid who had that pattern. </p>
<p>He is going to be tested today, according to the NYC Health Commissioner. He is in isolation. </p>
<p>Testing an asymptomatic person will almost always return a negative result.
The kid, otoh, can be tested already.</p>
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Regardless of the cause of the fever, the “policy” says, fever over … now I forget the threshold, but thought it was going to be lowered to 99.4 or so??? Does anyone recall the temp threshold for further testing? And it was discussed a while back that tylenol or acetominaphen may not be that effective in reducing fever from this virus. Don;'t recall if the poster had a link for that.</p>
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<p>agreed saintfan, since she is not sick and has tested negative twice, (which makes sense, since you wont test positive if you have no symptoms) why not send her home? However Christie has to show his leadership skills. I really wish everyone would stop politicizing this and just do what is right! On another forum I visit, many were saying the nurse is an employee of the CDC and she is making this political! Really??? Wanting to not to be treated as an outcast, after you have sacrificed your time and potentially your health, means you are making this politica?</p>
<p>I believe the point is that the nurse is not currently symptomatic and is testing negative so should be perfectly safe to move to her own home to isolate for any period of time required.</p>
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Nope. My kid had that pattern, too. The boy, not the girls although I have no iea why.
The point here is, who knows? It could have been he wasn’t running a fever at that time. He could have been given medication. The authorities could have missed his fever. No way to know and it doesn’t really matter, does it.</p>
<p>In light of the fact that my criminal-thug-loser-thief-scam-artist BIL (about whom I have posted before) works in a position of responsibility for TSA at one of the three NYC airports, I would bet either incompetence or corruption if he was in the area. But who knows?</p>
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<p>And it’s also possible that he was given a fever-reducing medication because he was uncomfortable and no one wants to take a little kid on a 10-(?)hour flight if he’s uncomfortable. And it’s possible that they didn’t ask. But most kids when they are sick don’t all-of-a-sudden turn all better with a dose of Tylenol or Motrin.</p>
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Nope, but their fever does go down. It is certainly a possibility, whether it offends anyone or not. As I said, travel back and forth hasn’t stopped by any means and most of it is the usual activities-of-life travel of non-sick people. There has always been a lot of such travel and most of it is completely innocent. But, frankly, if a mom knew her kid was sick and thought there was any possibility it could be Ebola, I wouldn’t judge her very harshly. I don’t know what I wouldn’t do to save my kid. Probably not much.</p>
<p>“The point here is, who knows? It could have been he wasn’t running a fever at that time. He could have been given medication. The authorities could have missed his fever. No way to know and it doesn’t really matter, does it.”</p>
<p>I just don’t like when people throw out scenarios of what possibly might have happened. I also really don’t like people who speculate that people who think they might have Ebola would take a fever reducer to mask the fact so they can “sneak” into the US. </p>
<p>“But, frankly, if a mom knew her kid was sick and thought there was any possibility it could be Ebola, I wouldn’t judge her very harshly. I don’t know what I wouldn’t do to save my kid. Probably not much.”</p>
<p>I am under the impression that this family is not visiting the US - but that they live in the Bronx. </p>
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<p>Given that the “experts” failed miserably at the onset to protect the public from Ebola, can you really say listen to the experts?</p>
<p>I keep thinking Kaci will be released and the governor will find some way to save face. He can’t possibly intend to make her ride out 21 days in these conditions. What would they do if she simply walked out of her tent and attempted to leave? Shoot her?</p>
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That’s ok. You don’t have to like what everyone else posts as long as the TOS is not violated. By the way, who were you quoting with the word sneak? Not me. If you think it doesn’t happen, think again. People from Liberia are very, very wary of any symptom when traveling, as well they should be. There is a lot of anxiety in the community about the anxiety from outside the community. And who can possibly blame them? Most of them absolutely have to travel in one direction or the other and it’s not an easy choice to make. They are not wealthy individuals.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree that they should let her go home, whether to quarantine or self-monitor.</p>
<p><a href=“https://news.yahoo.com/mali-rushes-track-ebola-toddler-dies-150925262.html”>https://news.yahoo.com/mali-rushes-track-ebola-toddler-dies-150925262.html</a></p>
<p>Mali rushes to track ebola after toddler from Guinea who traveled 600 miles while symptomatic dies.</p>
<p>“by the way, who were you quoting with the word sneak?”</p>
<p>No one in particular but it seems to me it is implied in quite a few posts on this thread going back the Duncan. </p>