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There's a petition on a website to have nurse Kaci Hickox's license revoked for refusing quarantine after working directly with Ebola patients in West africa.

Sure do...how is it that you fight a quarantine, but insist that I take a vaccination that apparently doesn't react well with me. If it did that to my arm, I only can imagine what would happen if I take it nasally.

You reaction was to an IM injection, not specifically the flu shot. Local tissue injury or hematoma may occur following any IM injection, which may lead to a palpable knot that takes several days to heal. So don't worry, the flu antigens themselves were not responsible for your cantelope-sized knot.

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To be fair, this is the thought I'd had initially when beginning to research what is known about the virus. I actually ended up making a number of calls to old professors and their colleagues to get some answers. After giving the subject due diligence, I changed my opinion on the matter. And the reading is far from over on this.

You're free to make all the phone calls you wish, but the study she quoted had nothing to do with how infectious one is in their first hours of fever.

She also conveniently neglected to post about the follow up study by one of the researchers of that study WHICH FAILED TO REPLICATE THE RESULTS.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-confirms-ebola-not-transmitted-through-air

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OCNRN, I'll take my chances like Kaci. When I felt sick I stayed home. And if I feel sick in the future, I will stay home. *Adds sarcasm* Fortunate for me, I didn't die or bleed to death despite only having a headache at best. Aside from the fact that first flu shot I ever received literally left a baseball sized knot in my deltoid, I think with the way a lot of these nurses on here think, they'll be ok one way or another. So what is your next point?

Unlike ebola, the influenza virus is contagious BEFORE ONE HAS ANY SYMPTOMS at all.

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The monitoring period has ended.

Maine remains Ebola free.

No surprise there

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I dunno. I heard that there's reliable evidence that the squirrels in Ft Kent will be carrying it, just waiting for the next impoverished Mainer to shoot one for his supper and Bob's yer uncle. I say, avoid Maine for at least forty years, since Ebola has been active in West Africa for that long, prolly carried by them groun' squirrels they have there, yah know, an' yah just canna be too careful with such a lethal disease.

Replacing tinfoil hat...

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I dunno. I heard that there's reliable evidence that the squirrels in Ft Kent will be carrying it, just waiting for the next impoverished Mainer to shoot one for his supper and Bob's yer uncle. I say, avoid Maine for at least forty years, since Ebola has been active in West Africa for that long, prolly carried by them groun' squirrels they have there, yah know, an' yah just canna be too careful with such a lethal disease.

Replacing tinfoil hat...

Man, I had my money on moose. See, Canadians have been planning a covert mission to infiltrate, subdue and dominate the Americas for millennia now. They've been doing this whole Trojan horse "let's never be angry" act. I wouldn't put it past them to send an Ebola-ridden moose over the border. Why not start in Maine while we're all blaming this Kaci chick? (The fact that the logistics of that would be so difficult is why THIS IS SO BELIEVABLE.)

.....on second thought, how do we know Kaci isn't Canadian??? I think we have a right to get answers to this. We should demand her birth certificate be released to the general public. Until she does, I'm not sure I'd trust her or the meese.

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Oh, egads, I misread the OP and signed the petition because I somehow skimmed it to read that she SHOULDN'T get her license revoked, and now I can't take it back!. Oh, well, there are only 60 signatures of the many,many needed. Hope the #'s continue to fall short....

Note to self: Make no decisions after working a 12 hour night-shift, when you usually always work Days. Your mind is foggy and can't be trusted in that circumstance. SIGH!

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Oh, egads, I misread the OP and signed the petition because I somehow skimmed it to read that she SHOULDN'T get her license revoked, and now I can't take it back!. Oh, well, there are only 60 signatures of the many,many needed. Hope the #'s continue to fall short....

Note to self: Make no decisions after working a 12 hour night-shift, when you usually always work Days. Your mind is foggy and can't be trusted in that circumstance. SIGH!

I'm going to be faxing to you a loan agreement, the terms of which indicate you will be paying me $100 per week until you die. I will be under no obligation to repay any part of it. Please sign this and send it back to me asap...or at least right after your next 12-hour shift! ;)

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Oh, egads, I misread the OP and signed the petition because I somehow skimmed it to read that she SHOULDN'T get her license revoked, and now I can't take it back!. Oh, well, there are only 60 signatures of the many,many needed. Hope the #'s continue to fall short....

Note to self: Make no decisions after working a 12 hour night-shift, when you usually always work Days. Your mind is foggy and can't be trusted in that circumstance. SIGH!

Well, the good news is that there is no number of signatures "needed" -- the petition is meaningless and would never have any effect, no matter how many sleep-deprived, overworked nurses accidentally signed it. :)

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Well, the good news is that there is no number of signatures "needed" -- the petition is meaningless and would never have any effect, no matter how many sleep-deprived, overworked nurses accidentally signed it. :)

Or wrote it.

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Or wrote it.

If only we could attribute sleep deprivation to that one....sigh.

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You're free to make all the phone calls you wish, but the study she quoted had nothing to do with how infectious one is in their first hours of fever.

She also conveniently neglected to post about the follow up study by one of the researchers of that study WHICH FAILED TO REPLICATE THE RESULTS.

Study Confirms That Ebola Is Not Transmitted Through The Air | IFLScience

Understanding where fear originates in discussions surrounding community health does not equate defending said poster's position. Perhaps you should direct your linked study to that poster ;)

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