Dallas County Sheriff's Deputy Taken to Presbyterian Hospital Yesterday Doesn't Have Ebola

By Stephen Young Thu., Oct. 9 2014 at 3:39 PM

Michael Monnig, the man taken from a Frisco Care Now clinic to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas after showing potential Ebola symptoms and indicating that he had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, has tested negative for the Ebola virus.

According to conflicting reports yesterday, Monnig may have told workers at Care Now one of the following things: he had in contact with Duncan; he had entered his apartment; or he'd been in contact with Duncan's family.

Out of what Frisco Mayor Maher Maso called an abundance of caution, Monnig was taken to Presbyterian, the hospital that treated Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States.

Monnig never showed many of the most common Ebola symptoms -- fever, vomiting or diarrhea -- according to city of Dallas spokeswoman Sana Syed. Nevertheless, a specimen from Monnig was sent to the Texas Department of State Health Services for testing.

TDSHS issued the following statement Thursday afternoon:

"The Texas Department of State Health Services has completed testing of the specimen submitted today by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The result is negative for Ebola."

Duncan remains the only case of Ebola to be diagnosed domestically.

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bstewart1987

Too much Taco Bell can do that to you.

Sharon_Moreanus topcommenter

Ebola, rape, meth are the last posts.

More bloggers n less content.

I miss Robert.

DonkeyHotay topcommenter

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ozonelarryb

Aw crap. All that snark wasted.

Well, some stupidity will rise to replace this.

mavdog topcommenter

my professional opinion as a relative of a Doctor is this:

psychosomatic.

this man knew he was going to get the disease when he went into the apartment, so he made himself sick.

he doesn't need any medications (well maybe Xanax), he needs therapy.

rusknative

"the sky is falling, I must run and tell the King..."

C. Little

"When in worry, or in doubt

Run in circles, scream and shout"

anyone on MSNBC

"If Duncan were white, he would be alive today"

Commish J W Price, (soon prisoner 675304)

everlastingphelps topcommenter

No fever, no ebola. If they had told us that he didn't have a fever, we would have known he was negative from the start. I'm not sure why the clinic didn't tell him that.

ThePosterFormerlyKnownasPaul topcommenter

In situations such as these, I have absolutely no problems with a false positive.

dingo

@Sharon_Moreanus

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dingo

@Sharon_Moreanus

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JFPO

If I recall the timing correctly, he headed to Care Now very quickly after it was announced that Duncan had passed.

MaxNoDifference

@rusknative I figured he'd be prisoner # 8675309.

rusknative

@everlastingphelps High Drama sells advertising revenue.

Sharon_Moreanus topcommenter

I'm not scared until the escalators at CityPlace actually work. #DART

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@bvckvs @everlastingphelps Yeah, I read the accounts of patients freaking out. Since he came in "dramatically", they should have just as dramatically and loudly said, "you don't have a fever, and you can't have ebola without a fever."

The problem with all of this is that we can't get much information out of Those In Authority and half of what we do get is obvious lies. It's the credibility gap.

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

@bvckvs @everlastingphelps Care Now is not some mall clinic dumbass. At least you FINALLY got one fact about the story right, the care now staff freaked and caused the scare, not the guy with stomach cramps

TheCredibleHulk topcommenter

@bvckvs @everlastingphelps

Care-Now shrink?

That explains quite a bit.

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@bvckvs @everlastingphelps I know you desperately want me to be ignorant, but it's not the case.

There are no ebola infections that present without fever. You can have the ebola virus in your system, but until you have a fever, it is not an infection.

The lies I am talking about are, "we can screen it at the airports" (which is lie because you can get rid of the fever at the early parts of the infection with aspirin, but you are still shedding virii, and even then, the shitty "touchless" thermometers they are using often read far lower than reality, like 89F.) and "you can only get it by direct contact with fluids" (when we know that aerosol infection is a vector, and that the virus can live on dry surfaces for several hours).