Second Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola

Ouch! This virus in very tenacious!

Obviously, there's something systematic going wrong here.

There have been decades when doctors and caretakers weren't infected taking care of Ebola patients; yet now we have 2 so soon in the same area.

Travel ban for peoples from West Africa is best option to deter spreading disease to rest of the world before too late. If Ebola outbreak outside Africa and then it will wipe out hundred millions of population before medicine for Ebola treatment was found. Also cremation Ebola victim is better than bury in body bag.

A travel ban? Tell that to Texas's top official, Gov. Rick Perry. He took off for Europe--same place Duncan flew in from--just when this started taking a turn for the worse.

Better yet, tell that to nurse #2 who flew back to Ohio for a week between the time she spent with Duncan and the emergence of her ebola infection.

How many cases does the US need before being subjected to a travel ban of its own?

The two were taking care of one patient who didn't get admitted until he was well into showing signs of infection.

What's more interesting is how the second nurse was on a plane from Cleveland back to Dallas the day before reporting symptoms. All the caregivers involved with the deceased patient were supposedly under daily monitoring, yet this nurse flew to Cleveland on Oct 10 and back on Oct 13? Now the CDC is asking anyone who was on the same flight from Cleveland to call their hotline number.

"Because of the proximity in time between the evening flight and first report of illness the following morning, CDC is reaching out to passengers who flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth Oct. 13," the CDC said in a statement. The flight landed Monday at 8:16 p.m. CT. http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/s1015-airline-notification.html

The difference in risk of infection between a patient who receive treatment with therapy drugs and ones who have not and are dying is clear. Surely the same protocol breaches occurred when caring for the patients who were receiving drug treatment, but no infections occurred. Highly aware western doctors in Africa have also been infected despite having hazmat clothing - they were also exposed to patients in the advanced stages close to death.

So it is reasonable to conclude based on cases so far, that with sufficient therapy drugs available, the transmission rate could drop below 1 new case per old case, and the disease could be contained, certainly in advanced countries, and perhaps in west Africa also.

Unfortunately one of the drugs, MZapp requires months to make, but others do not. Besides therapy drugs, there are vaccines being developed and some already undergoing testing. It would be helpful if public interest, press coverage, and government announcements would focus more on what drugs are available and effective, production schedules for these drugs, and delivery of these drugs to the worst affected areas. More of "this is how we will beat it", less of "there is nothing to worry about".

Travel ban for peoples from West Africa is best option to deter spreading disease to rest of the world before too late

Yes, spot on. Let's stop talking about a wright/wrong here. We, the world, need to ban people who are traveling in/out from these Ebola infected countries. The traveling access should be limited only to health care medical teams.

Agreed Global but the "Bleeding Hearts" will never let that happen.

If you don't stop the outbreak at the source, no travel ban will make a difference. WHO estimates that by December there will be 10,000 cases a week and in 2015 there will be 1.5 million cases. Looks like a good chance that this will become a pandemic. No travel ban will help you then. You already have cases in Spain and Germany, stop all flights to those countries too? Can you say economic collapse.

What's to worry? It's all under control. Trust them...

As usual too little too late. Politicians are not the right people to control this Ebola pandemic. The only permanent solution is to shut off Africa, isolate anyone that has had contact with anyone remotely in contact with an Ebola patient and let the virus burn itself out.

As usual too little too late. Politicians are not the right people to control this Ebola pandemic. The only permanent solution is to shut off Africa, isolate anyone that has had contact with anyone remotely in contact with an Ebola patient and let the virus burn itself out.

So you're advocating genocide? It seems to me there was another person advocating a "permanent solution". Adolf-somebody... ...liked to show people how tall he would be once he finally grows up.