Southwestern College building cordoned off after student becomes ill

[bananas]

Source: kswb tv

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Authorities at
Southwestern College have taped off a
building as a precaution after a student
reported feeling ill Thursday.

The campus chief of police is at Building
400, and officials with the San Diego
County Department of Health have been
called to the scene.

Campus officials said information that the
ill student had been exposed to Ebola on
a commercial plane flight have not been
confirmed.

Fox 5 News has a crew on the way to
Southwestern College. This story will be
updated as new information becomes
available.

Read more: http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/10/16/southwestern-college-building-evacuated-after-student-becomes-ill/

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This is live on Tv now.

[bananas]

1. Ebola scare shuts down buildings at Southwestern College, students under quarantine

http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/Student-at-Southwestern-College-under-quarantine-for-Ebola-279453812.html

A student at Southwestern College who
came in contact with someone on the same
flight as Texas nurse Amber Vinson has
been quarantined Thursday in Chula Vista,
according to Anna Pryor, editor-in-chief of
the college's newspaper, The Sun.

It happened just before 10 a.m. in the 440
building at the campus located in the 900
block of Otay Lakes Road.

All students and staff in class with the
student and in the class following have
been quarantined, Pryor said. Reportedly,
about 20 students have been quarantined.
Campus police have taped off the building
and are waiting on officials from the Center
for Disease Control to arrive.

Amber Vinson, a nurse from Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital, was recently
diagnosed with Ebola and was directed by
the CDC to board a flight from Ohio back
to Dallas. Vinson is one of the nurses who
helped take care of Thomas Eric Duncan
who died from Ebola on October 8th.

Check back for more information.

[upaloopa]

24. Why don't we quarantine everyone on the plane?

How about everyone in the terminal? How about everyone on the rental car and hotel shuttles? Anyone within barf distance should be locked up!
Ebola scare shuts down minds all over the country.

[uhnope]

25. NO SIGN OF EBOLA. take a chill pill

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/16/southwestern-college-ebola-student-closed/

[bananas]

2. livestream

http://new.livestream.com/KSWB

[cstanleytech]

3. I'm betting the more likely cause is a cold or the flu though. nt

[get the red out]

5. Me too

It seems the most likely explanation.

[kestrel91316]

28. No shit. It's the start of flu season.

[yellowcanine]

4. "Fox 5 News has a crew on the way to Southwestern College." Well alrighty then!

They've got this!

[bananas]

7. they we're already there when I posted

They we're reporting live from campus before I posted.

[bananas]

10. posting from my phone

Quick cut and paste, hard to edit.

[Voice for Peace]

6. Could it even happen that fast..?

did the student have exposure to someone who was on the flight?

or was the student on the flight?

[yellowcanine]

9. The student was not on the flight. This is all totally unnecessary.

Even if she were on the flight she would not be showing symptoms this quickly.

[Voice for Peace]

17. that's what I thought..

ok I will give them props for erring ridiculously on the side of safety
instead of carelessness.

[Daemonaquila]

27. How about NOT giving them props for being stupid?

Erring ridiculously due to panic and ignorance of basic medical facts of ebola is not something to be congratulated. This is more the same panic we saw on the afternoon of 9/11 whenever a brown person walked by a white person.

[Voice for Peace]

34. It's a learning curve for everyone.

At first they didn't know the whole story. They weighed
all the possibilities and erred on the side of no lawsuits.

Ebola jokes are flying left and right, out in the outernet.

Today for no good reason I had a terrible headache. Of
course I thought oh no I have ebola, just as a private joke,
and it got quite bad, the headache, not the joke; so I took
some ibuprofin. I knew I didn't have ebola, and hoped I
didn't have influenza. As the headache subsided I thought
about the nurse who flew to Cincinnati. Maybe the day
she flew there, she had a headache and took some
advil. Same next day. She would never show a fever,
but maybe could still be in the beginning of the contagious
stage. There's so much we don't know. Being irrationally
fearful is NOT the same thing as being overly cautious.

[yellowcanine]

8. "A student at Southwestern College who came in contact with someone on the same flight as Texas

nurse Amber Vinson has been quarantined...." Okay this is unnecessary panic. What a friggin mess.

[bobclark86]

14. So... did the passenger give the nurse a catheder ...

and did the student start poking around in the passenger's pee-hole while showing symptoms?

No?

Then it's a fucking cold.

[yellowcanine]

11. And this is just the BEGINNING of flu season. We are doomed if every time someone sneezes Ebola

is suspected. Criminy.

[Fred Sanders]

12. The land of the brave......hilarious.

[yellowcanine]

13. And the home of the freakouts!

[SoapBox]

20. Send in Grampy McCain!

His hair and pants are already on fire!

Oh...and grab an extinguisher.

[bananas]

15. Nurse: SWC student has no sign of Ebola

http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/16/southwestern-college-ebola-student-closed/

Southwestern College said an Ebola scare
that caused a classroom building to be
cordoned off Thursday morning turned out to
be without merit and officials are reopening
classrooms.

A student who reported to a faculty member
that she had missed classes because her
sister was hospitalized with flu-like
symptoms after flying last week prompted the
470 building to be closed off for several
hours.

College spokeswoman Lillian Leopold said
the student was not exhibiting flu-like
symptoms and was thoroughly examined by a
college nurse.

Leopold said the classroom was cordoned off
in "an abundance of caution" after the
student told a faculty member she had flown
to the Midwest last week and that her sister
was in the hospital.

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[Adsos Letter]

18. "...she had missed classes because..."

And that, Professor, is why you should not dock that portion of my grade based on attendance/participation.

[d_r]

22. but what about her Grandmother?

Did she survive?

[magical thyme]

16. oh for dawg's sake. now that's an overreaction if ever...

that's the problem in the US. First we're too complacent. Then in meltdown panic.

[City Lights]

19. Oy! Let the hysterics begin...

Sheesh.

[homegirl]

23. Take your pick of least and most likely

accurate diagnosis of the vomiting symptom:

Hangover
Morning sickness
Flu

OR

nervous anxiety attack.

[rocktivity]

21. I thought colleges were cracking down on frat house initiation pranks

Or is the student a dramatic arts major doing an extra credit assignment?


rocktivity

[JI7]

26. the Nurses who were dealing with Duncan did not the the proper protection

while those who have no chance of getting it are shutting things down over it.

[customerserviceguy]

29. Would it be fair

to describe the Dallas hospital as undercautious, while everybody who shuts things down as overcautious?

Guess which choice most folks would make?

[JI7]

30. in the first case it's about things like money , greedy higher ups etc, in the 2nd case

it's about fear and ignorance.

[customerserviceguy]

31. I really don't have a lot of confidence

that anyone really knows Ebola, especially the strain that Duncan carried that got through Western medicine's guidelines, procedures and protocols, and that ignorance inspires a rational fear.

[JI7]

32. guidelines were weak and not followed

the nurses who got ebola did not even have protective covering at first. when you see what happened it's not a surprise at all that they would have contracted ebola from him.

[Marrah_G]

33. And this is what the media freakout and misinformation has brought us