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[Purveyor]

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[Purveyor]

2. Your report is dated Oct 2nd. eom

[MidwestTransplant]

3. oh oops found on another site. I'll self delete

[Hestia]

4. The patient, Thomas Eric Duncan passed away this afternoon. From the article:

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Under normal circumstances, the Dallas Medical Examiner’s office would be in charge of moving Duncan’s body from the hospital. However in this case, the ME has turned over the handling of his remains to the Texas Health Department. According to the CDC, the virus can be transmitted postmortem through bodily fluids. Therefore, the CDC has issued guidelines to hospitals and mortuaries for how to safely handle the human remains of any person who has contracted Ebola and died from the disease.

The CDC recommends that only those trained to handle infected human remains should come in contact with the body and they should wear personal protective equipment including “surgical scrub suit, surgical cap, impervious gown with full sleeve coverage, eye protection (e.g., face shield, goggles), facemask, shoe covers, and double surgical gloves.”

The body must be wrapped in a plastic shroud at the hospital with all intravenous lines and endotracheal tubes kept in place. The CDC recommends that the body be placed in two leak-proof zippered plastic bags before being moved to the morgue.

Once at the morgue, the body will be placed in an airtight, secure casket and immediately buried or cremated. According to the CDC, the body should not be embalmed or even removed from the double bags at the mortuary. Autopsies are not recommended.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/ebola-patients-remains-still-infectious/

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Wow, Frisco...great town, too much traffic. Loved going to the Angelika theater there.

[seveneyes]

5. "Zero chance of it spreading"

Just keep letting unfettered "tourists" come here from hot zones.

[uppityperson]

6. Locked as may be a hoax, unlocked as may not be. for now leaving unlocked to determine if is real

or not. Sorry for the confusion. The Hoax report was from several days ago, not now. My apologies for acting so fast, trying to contain rumors which were rumors last week, not this week. The world is confusing.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26687002/fake-news-article-contains-inaccurate-reports-about-ebola-in-frisco

[Purveyor]

7. By locking, you also removed this article from the LBN sidebar. I'm self deleting and

reposting in LBN in order to place it back on the LBN sidebar.

BTW...is it back to the old ways of not waiting for forum hosts consensus?

[uppityperson]

8. I am sorry, it seemed like a strong rumor, please repost it.

I will self flagellate today for acting so fast and make sure I will not do it again. btw.

[pnwmom]

9. Here is another report, which mentions a press conference at 3:30, Dallas time.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/frisco-officials-say-patient-exhibiting-ebola-like-symptoms-claims-to-have-had-contact-with-thomas-eric-duncan.html/

Update at 2:11 p.m.: The patient, dressed in shorts and wearing a surgical mask and a plastic head covering, just walked out of the facility and into the ambulance, which had been covered in plastic. That patient will likely transported to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan was hospitalized.

We are working to determine if this person is among the 48 people the Centers for Disease Control is monitoring. So far there has been no comment from the CDC, which already had a 3 p.m. press conference scheduled.

There are also conflicting reports concerning the patient. Frisco officials earlier said he claimed to have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, but Care Now says he told them he’d been to Africa.

Update at 2 p.m.: Frisco paramedics, dressed in protective gear, are preparing to transport the patient to a hospital. It’s unclear which one.

SNIP