Glock32 beat me to this but I'm posting what I wrote anyway...
NYC doctor now under quarantine. Plus his fiancee.
Yeehaw.
A Harlem doctor went bowling in Brooklyn before he was hospitalized for possible Ebola.
The shocking revelation that Dr. Craig Spencer was roaming around town — after sources said he first told authorities he self-quarantined himself — emerged after the medic was hauled off Thursday to Bellevue Hospital in a protective suit with symptoms of the deadly disease.
Spencer, 33, who recently returned from the disease-wracked West African county of Guinea, was suffering from nausea and had a 103-degree fever, sources said.
Not a black man in case the Harlem reference popped that visual into your mind. It did for me. Anyway...this is like the nurse flying around the country as far as I'm concerned. I don't expect perfection from healthcare professionals...they are human and they make mistakes. It happens. But, this isn't a mistake. It's more like reckless endangerment. I mean, if some poor schmuck who works at K-Mart gets Obola and waits until he's puking his guts out and bleeding before contacting a doctor I don't necessarily think poorly of him. But a doctor who has 1) recently been to West Africa (specifically Guinea), 2) working with Obola patients and 3) had decided to "self-quarantine" himself...well, I guess I expect a bit more of someone like that.
We have been exceedingly lucky
so far with this thing. We are batting a thousand with the the people who have been treated here in the USA. This is a source of puzzlement and I think that it comes from the fact that we really don't know very much about Obola in humans. Most of our previous experience with Obola has been small villages in Africa where everyone gets exposed, the treatment is rudimentary (at best) and most of those infected die. Here in America we have been successful so far. Here is what our survivors have in common with each other:
1) Very early diagnosis,
2) very hygienic treatment facilities,
3) lots of fluids to keep the patients well hydrated,
4) probably a robust immune system,
5) and, perhaps most importantly (but who knows?), treatment with either experimental drugs or antibody-rich blood plasma.
Maybe, just maybe, Obola doesn't have to have as high a mortality rate as has been experienced in Africa. No one really knows.
I thought this was an interesting way to describe this:
An agitated woman who identified herself as Spencer’s fiancee showed up later at Bellevue. She too was quarantined, sources said.
Probably a bit of an understatement. I'm guessing she was on site when the guy was puking.