First case of Ebola in San Diego

Apparently this is a new one? 

FIRST CASE OF EBOLA IN SAN DIEGO

Information from: www.sandiego6.com

http://www.cronicainformativa.com/2014/10/first-case-of-ebola-in-san-diego.html

Southwestern College in Chula Vista confirms the student who reported feeling ill this morning, leading to an Ebola scare, has recanted her story.      About 50 students at the school were held in a quarantine for about four hours after reports the girl or her sister may have been on the same plane as Amber Vinson, the Texas nurse who is being treated for Ebola.    College Police Chief Michael Cash says the school followed proper protocol when it was alerted of a possible exposure to contagious disease.   "We are assured no one in the county has been contacted with any type of infectious disease of this nature. We are now releasing students and are back to normal operations," he said.    The students were given food and water while held in the area of the classroom where the student reportedly had an 8 a.m. class. The student who reported ill was examined by a school nurse and later questioned.   No word yet on why the student gave incorrect information or if she will be disciplined.

Good call Crsrs31

Recant   WTF

Isn't this the same school with the meningitis outbreak?

How does one recant or renounce a physical condition? Was se never medically diagnosed?

ParanoidMom wrote: Isn't this the same school with the meningitis outbreak?

Nope, that's San Diego State. Southwestern is a community college.

Will someone please take down this topic on the forum. This site is going to lose its credibility.

Or start a new topic titled "First Ebola Case in Dago Debunked" etc...

Gang, for the last time lol, since over 95% of all news coming eventually rules out Ebola, we're not about to start changing 95% of all news headlines, especially when it's the exact same headline used in the article itself.

The headline used in this thread was the headline used in the article.  Maybe they should print retraction each time?  We post the news article, followed by the original headline if it fits.  Latest News is a news feed of sorts with the original information and we can't start changing them - as is the same with all sites and news.   Could you imagine the work involved?  Could you imagine if it turns out to be Ebola and we have to switch it back because someone puts not ebola too soon? If we fail to say not Ebola does it's mean confirmed?  Major confusion - and major editing.

I completely understand what you guys are saying, and appreciate it, but the alternative is even more confusing if we change the original news headline.

I should also add, when we post news, we also have to reference the source by placing the link at bottom of the thread, or the news orgs get upset for plagiarism.   If we fool with their headlines too bad it will lead to complaints, and we've had them before.

I think this might be the same story (different link) that Jacksdad posted a couple of days ago that I mentioned the girl lied to keep from losing her class.

You're absolutely correct on both points Gady.  

And when they run with a shocking headline to hype an article/site, and they don't post retraction, at least we're able to post about it here and pick it apart.  The news orgs just post it, scare people, and it's not fixed.  We fix and correct their news by posting after the article.   People are pretty fortunate that we're set up that way - and get to the truth.  Also - there is a lot of good info on those threads that people will skip over (if we put Not Ebola) and miss i.e. follow up stories, good informative input, etc...

We really don't want to get into the habit of editing posts, and several each day.   Usually it's done correctly either way and we don't have a big problem with it, although it may happen, and this news article is an example of the problem when posting their exact headline.  

Now technically, who ever posts the article here, that person has the right to edit/change the heading they used as it's their post.  You guys don't want us edit-happy around here, trust me lol.  

There have been, and will continue to be, many of these "possible case in..." stories.  Perhaps what we should do is have one thread that contains all fo the "possible" cases, and when or if it is confirmed to be an actual case, have it moved to its own thread on the forum.  Would be less clutter that way, at least.

I agree with Albert that we should not change a news title.  Sometimes, even when they are recanted due to pressure, stories/news turn out to be true.

My idea with this editing : only the AUTHOR of that thread to modify the thread post title with just one word / or symbol so we know its ruled out. If the Author is not coming back (editing the title) a moderator can move the post to "false alarm" or so. Like the WHO we can have "confirmed" "suspected " and "false alarm". Also mods can close topics that are outdated somehow (locking them and the last post to be "ruled out" or so. In this way if anyone read can find out that it was a false alarm.
I don't encouraging moderators to modify the content of any post in any way, just to place 1 word at the end (start) of topic.

I think Albert and mods can make a sticky asking the authors of the threads(JUST the ones with very alarming titles - like "ebola in new York -lets say) to edit the title if the event was not confirmed.