Possible Second Ebola Case In Dallas, TX. Know The Symptoms And What To Look For!

A possible second Ebola patient is very close to home, right here in Texas.  Health officials in Dallas, TX are closely monitoring the patient, who had close contact with the first person diagnosed in the USA.

This is kinda scary, Dallas is way to close to Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle for me to not be worried...time to break out the gas masks I guess...

Enough of my paranoia, here's the facts.

USA Today

"The patient left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in Dallas the following day. On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital.

The patient, whose condition was upgraded to serious Wednesday, was in contact with several children before he was hospitalized, health officials here said.

Each of those children have been kept home from school and are under precautionary monitoring, Thompson said.

The Dallas County school district officials said they are working closely with health officials."

It's said that more than half a dozen CDC employees arrived in Dallas after news of the diagnosis broke.  The CDC and Dallas County are working together in what they call a contact investigation.  Meaning anyone who has had contact with the patient, including emergency room staff, will be under health officials' observation for 21 days.  If any of those being monitored show symptoms, they'll be placed in isolation.

The three paramedics who transported the patient in Dallas are temporarily off duty and among those under observation as well.

Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding and can appear as long as 21 days after exposure to the virus.  The disease is not contagious until symptoms begin, and it takes close contact with bodily fluids to spread.

While Dallas officials are encouraging citizens to avoid large public gatherings, I've also heard rumors that it's believed money could be a way to spread Ebola.  Which makes no sense, being it takes close contact with body fluids to spread.  However, to be a conspiracy theorist for a minute, that seems like an excuse to do away with currency and move to a unified currency across the globe.  Can you say "new world order"?