Has ebola been detected in the US before?
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The Reston strain of Ebola was discovered in a primate facility in Reston, VA near D.C.  It's the only known airborne strain. Humans that contracted the disease suffered severe flu-like symptoms but no one died.  There was a high incidence of mortality in monkeys that contracted it.\n\nThere have been no cases of the other, more severe (to humans) forms of Ebola in America.
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Dr. Peter Piot, co-discoverer of the Ebola virus.  I havent found the other person yet.  Hope this helps you out hun........Flo  ps Dr. Karl Johnson of the Whirling Disease Foundation, a virologist and co-discoverer of Ebola and Hantavirus.
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e. United States of America
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I'm not sure how those books you're reading describe ebola (or Tomb Raider either), but while in Pakistan a patient with ebola had to be completely isolated.  I was working in a field hospital so what we could do was limited and we couldn't do too much for this patient.  So, we decided to transport him to the Pakistan hospital.  Anyway, this guy was so sick, he'd began hemorraging through his dermis.  At this point we figured his organs were beginining to liqudfy.  He was coughing up blood alot too.  It was a very interesting experience.
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I've not heard of this.\n\nI would think it would be BIG NEWS.
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I believe it's the Ebola version of the hemorrhagic fever virus which belongs to the filo-virus group. It has a 90+  percent death rate as compared to the Marburg strain of this virus which has a 65 percent death rate.
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They are usually from Africa. There is a great website out there that actually engages the scammers and gives em a little taste of their own medicine:\nhttp://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/index.html\n\n\nThey also started a correspondance with one of the scammers, so you can read a little about it here:\nhttp://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/mindofascammer.htm
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Is he from the U.S. or the U.K.? If he is from either, then they can't deny him re entry into his own country if he is a citizen. I don't know if they would allow him entry into another country for sure, but I would think that they would. I think that that kind of thing only applies to people with highly contagious diseases like Ebola or Anthrax or something like that. Since you cannot get HIV from casual contact, there would not be a real threat unless he were to become injured and bleed and in that case they probably have rubber gloves for precautions. You could try looking at the webpage for the information you need. If he knows he is HIV positive than so does the CDC, and while they do take special considerations for HIV positive persons, I do not believe that it limits your cousins travel.
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Not sure but check out the Center for Disease Control website.
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According to the Center for Disease Control, the first case was identified on June 5, 1981
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The blood is affected by it. It causes the blood to not clot as it should and the sufferer bleeds to death through multiple sites, not a nice disease at all.\n\nEbola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976.\n\nThe disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognized. The virus is one of two members of a family of RNA viruses called the Filoviridae. There are four identified subtypes of Ebola virus. Three of the four have caused disease in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, and Ebola-Ivory Coast. The fourth, Ebola-Reston, has caused disease in nonhuman primates, but not in humans....;
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well, they had a military hospital that was highly secured & they quarrantined the ebola patients & the medical workers had to suit up in these suits, they had to shower before getting in the suits & afterwards, they did not go into the room with the ebola patients.  Unfortunately there was nothing they could really do but detect the virus & kept the paitents in quarrantine until they died since there is no cure & treatment.
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Yes. In 2003 there was a patient who was diagnosed with avian bird flu in New York.
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Yes, all his messages are reported in the U.S.  There was a new one just two weeks ago.  But there have been so many, and they are so rambling and incoherent, that we just can't remember all of them.\nIf you've never heard of these messages, then try tuning to National Public Radio every morning, or the News Hour on PBS every evening.
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The jury is still out on this one.  It is the same disease you remember from the 50's, and while it has been controlled, it still existed in smaller numbers.  This outbreak is mostly in the college population and could indicate a need to get a booster immunization.  Time will tell.
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you might want to try center of disease control ( CDC ) in Atlanta or Journal of Medicine. They should have what you need.
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I heard that they were planning to do that in New York, but whether the plan was implemented, I cannot say. Sucks though. It's not like we're dangerous or contagious.