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HE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED WHEN HE FIRST PRESENTED BECAUSE HE DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY HE HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH SOMEBODY WHO DIED OF EBOLA! What don't you get?? If Th
by iliveindallas 12y ago
HE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED WHEN HE FIRST PRESENTED BECAUSE HE DIDN'T TELL ANYBODY HE HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH SOMEBODY WHO DIED OF EBOLA!
What don't you get?? If Thomas Eric Duncan had stated "I'm a Liberian national who recently helped treat a pregnant Ebola victim just before flying to the US" he would have been isolated immediately. He didn't and now other people might die because of it!
- simonblack 12y agoEverything is clear and more evident in hindsight. It seems that as far as Duncan knew, that pregnant woman was suffering from malaria, not ebola. She died while he was in transit or shortly after. He would not have had that knowledge.
- hga 12y ago"Knew", or very possibly hoped. She died in the house he was living in, and the end symptoms are sufficiently different that if you know which is which, you'd know. But we can't assume he would know to be able to do a differential diagnosis.
- colanderman 12y agoPlease don't write in all-caps on HN.
- colanderman 12y agoFor the haters: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.
- Karunamon 12y agoSometimes the yelling is necessary to draw attention to something that's being mistakenly or willfully overlooked.
- colanderman 12y agoIf someone's not paying attention to a calm, rational argument, then they're probably not worth convincing of anything. It's the Internet; they're a stranger. Move on.
- clebio 12y agoNo, not really. Not ever.
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