FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Suburban Dallas officials say a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who had gone into the apartment where the first U.S. Ebola patient had stayed is hospitalized after falling ill.
Frisco Fire Chief Mark Piland says the deputy is being treated “out of an abundance of caution.”
Emergency responders in the Dallas suburb took the deputy to the hospital after an urgent care facility reported a patient “exhibiting signs and symptoms” of Ebolaclaimed to have had contact with the man diagnosed with the disease in Dallas.
State health officials say there’s no indication the person had any direct contact with Duncan.
Piland says the deputy entered the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan had been saying and had contact with some members of the family Duncan has stayed with.
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Why, oh why, did this guy go to urgent care instead of directly to the hospital via ambulance with the medical personnel having been given proper warnings?
I’m beginning to believe that Ebola strikes the brain first.
The deputy walked into the apartment, spoke to people, and walked out of the apartment.
It is scientifically and medically impossible for him to have contracted the Ebola virus by doing what he did.
Probably a bad sammich… Let’s hope.
These people need to call an ambulance, tell them they might have Ebola and be picked up by a hazmat team. Not go to a frigging Urgent Care and risk infecting a room full of people.
What a cluster fuck.