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RUSH: Now, please tell me this isn\u2019t true. According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the sister of the Ebola patient — and, by the way, the director of the CDC was just out there facing the media, and he said this patient is now critical. That\u2019s not good. This original first reported Ebola patient<\/a>, guy in Dallas, is critical. Now, according to the Associated Press, this guy\u2019s sister, the sister of the Ebola patient says that he told the doctors on his first trip to the ER that he had just come from Liberia. <\/p>\n

Now, Liberia is one of the ground zero nations for the current outbreak of Ebola. This guy\u2019s sister says he told them he had just come from Liberia. Obama just said that wasn\u2019t gonna happen. We had people making sure that people from these African countries weren\u2019t gonna get in here. “We\u2019ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa, to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn\u2019t get on a plane for the US.” That was the president back on September 16th. <\/p>\n

Well, this guy got on a plane. He landed. He went to Dallas. He got sick. He went to the ER. He told them he was from Liberia and they gave him antibiotics and sent him home. Well, Liberia, a lot of cruise ships are registered in Liberia, so who knows what they thought. I don\u2019t know, folks. This is getting really frightening. How do you not know, if you\u2019re in the medical world, that Liberia is ground zero? Somebody comes in and says, “I got the flu and I came from Liberia.” That should have Code Red. They should have gotten the quarantine suits right then and done whatever. Again, it\u2019s the AP, so I don\u2019t want to overreact to this. But they just tweeted this out a couple minutes ago. They just posted this as breaking news. <\/line><\/p>\n

So now even they, the AP, would do anything to cover for the Regime as having to talk about this guy being sent home even after identifying for doctors that he was from Liberia. Here\u2019s the AP tweet: “Breaking: Sister of US Ebola Patient: He Told Hospital He Was From Liberia on 1st Visit, Was Sent Home.”<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more Ebola news from CNBC<\/a>. “Governor Rick Perry, Texas, says some school-age children had contact with this Ebola patient and they are being monitored for the disease.” Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s hard to get, folks. We\u2019re not gonna let people with the disease into the country. We\u2019re working really hard with these West African nations. This on the heels of our allies, the Iraqis, dropping ammunition and food to ISIS. This is on the heels of six people getting through Secret Service security into the White House and nearly up to the residence on the second floor. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We have more Ebola news from the New York Times<\/a>. Quote: “Dallas County officials said today they believe that this patient,” now critical, suffering from Ebola, “has come into contact with 12 to 18 people when he was experiencing symptoms,” and some of them are children. Now, I read last night in prepping for this that the most contagious period — when a patient is most contagious — is when the symptoms are paramountly, manifestly obvious, with skin lesions and sores and this kind of thing. Not that that\u2019s the only time. That\u2019s when the patient is the most highly contagious. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Rick Perry this afternoon in Dallas, Texas, held a press at Health Presbyterian Hospital conference to talk about the Dallas Ebola patient. Here\u2019s just a portion of his remarks…<\/p>\n

PERRY: Today we learned that some school-age children have been identified as having had contact with the patient and are now being monitored at home for any signs of the disease. I know that parents are extremely concerned about that development, but let me assure: These children have been identified, and they are being monitored, and the disease cannot be transmitted before having any symptoms. I have full confidence in the medical professionals and Superintendent Miles — and our local and our state and our federal partners — in keeping this contained.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that is a key element of this, that it cannot be transmitted before anybody has any symptoms. It is a bodily fluid exchange process. That could be somebody blowing their nose, mucus, anything, but it\u2019s not caused by breathing in and out. That\u2019s not enough. But somebody with Ebola, they can\u2019t transmit it until you\u2019ve obviously seen the symptoms. So you can know to avoid people.<\/p>\n

The problem is the early symptoms are the flu. It takes a week or a medical professional with a blood test to identify the virus itself, \u2019cause the initial symptoms do not show anything unique or different from the flu. So let\u2019s now go to the CDC director. I want to play these two sound bites and see if we have here what apparently happened, because these bites are earlier in the day, and this happened on CNN. <\/p>\n

It looks like we may not. Well, we may. Hang on. Let\u2019s just go. This is last night in Atlanta, Dr. Thomas Frieden\u2019s press conference talking about the first case of Ebola virus found, and during the Q&A, New York Times Health and Medicine Reporter Denise Grady said, “Can you tell us if this person is an American citizen? Will you be releasing the flight information, and is it correct to assume he was staying at a home with family members rather than in a hotel?”<\/p>\n

FRIEDEN: The patient was visiting family members and staying with family members who live in this country. We will contact anyone who we think has any likelihood of having had an exposure to the individual while they were infectious. At this point, that does not include anyone who might have traveled with him because he was not infectious at that time.<\/p>\n

GRADY: I asked if he\u2019s an American citizen.<\/p>\n

FRIEDEN: He\u2019s visiting family who live in this country.<\/p>\n