Ebola Tries to Make a Local Appearance

After a long weekend of hat selling, I finally turned on the TV and computer and all over the news and even Facebook is Ebola in the USA. A person in Jacksonville has turned himself or herself in for observation with flu like symptoms and possible contact with someone else traveling from West Africa. This immediately sent a ripple of fear across my Facebook feed but apparently this local patient doesn't meet CDC Ebola testing criteria, so false alarm. I have a feeling there will be plenty more of them. Deaths from Ebola is already well into the thousands outside the US, within our borders the number is 1. Now a nurse that was caring for the 1 has been hospitalized with Ebola. She is a young woman and I sure hope she beats Ebola. They doctors know who she contracted it from, so now the trick will be to figure out where the procedure for preventing caregivers from contracting it failed. In the meantime all of her belongings are being cleaned or incinerated. She does have a dog and unlike the case of a dog in Spain with an Ebola victim owner that was put down, this dog has a chance to live too. It remains unclear whether or not dogs can carry or transmit Ebola. For now it looks like it’s a pretty scary world out there for man and man’s best friend.