Liberian Traveler at Duke Hospital Shows Preliminary Negative Result for Ebola; Media Suppressed Story

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11/02/2014 @ 10:06 P.M. 31,343 views
Liberian Traveler at Duke Hospital Shows Preliminary Negative Result for Ebola
By David Kroll
Forbes

Update, 8:54 am EST, Monday, November 3: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is reporting this hour that tests conducted by the State Laboratory of Public Health returned a negative result for Ebola virus in a blood sample taken from a patient, described below, who was transported to Duke University Hospital on Sunday. The patient self-reported to the CDC that they developed a fever after traveling to the U.S. from Liberia on Friday and Saturday.

This negative result will be followed by another test at 72 hours after the patient developed the fever, most likely on Wednesday morning with results expected late Wednesday or early Thursday.

According to Bill Fulkerson, MD, executive vice president of the Duke University Health System, the patient will continue to be managed as he has since his admission:

Until Ebola infection is definitively ruled out, the patient will remain under care in a completely contained, isolated and secured unit at Duke University Hospital and all other aspects of our comprehensive infection control plan remain in place.

The patient’s care team at DUH has undergone extensive training over the past several weeks in caring for such a patient. This patient is being cared for in a separate unit with no other patients, and staff caring for these patients will have no other patient contact during this time. The team has received hours of training in the proper use of personal protective equipment to prevent their exposure to the virus.
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Original article, 10:06 pm EST, Sunday, November 2

A male patient, age unknown, was transported on Sunday to Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and is being tested this evening for Ebola virus infection.

The individual flew into Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday after traveling from Liberia through an unknown destination, then traveled to the Durham area on a commercial bus, according Aldona Wos, MD, secretary of the NC Department of Health and Human Services.

On Saturday, the individual was picked up by a relative and taken to the family’s home in Person County, north of Durham. After spiking a fever this morning, temperature unknown, the individual was transported to Duke Hospital and is currently isolated in a contained unit designated previously during training as the site for treatment of a potential Ebola patient.

Results will be available sometime on Monday morning.