Navigate . Well talk about all of that. Joining me, paul howard, scholar at man hat the hat tan institute. This is exposing a dirty little secret in the medical industry. Tell us about that secret. This is a open secret because in order to tell doctors about new products they have to get in to see them. Only time they can see the doctor is during lunch when they dont have patients. They buy them pizza and give them samples. Gerri were not talking about pizza here, right. Were talking about everything. Some doctors opinion leaders in the industry, they are paid consulting fees to talk about new products, go on lectures to do those kind of things. They get a lot of payments for that. A small number of doctors get very significant number of payments. Vast majority of doctors might get reprint or a piece of pizza. Those payments were north of 24 billion. So it aint nothing. It is pretty thorough going. If you look at the number of Drug Companies offering this, pfizer, astrazeneca, johnson
People. However logan officials said they decided to isolate those sick passengers send in a team and evaluate their position. Now, the local fox station is reporting that relatives of of some of those sick passengers said they had been the annual pilgrim image to mecca. State police say prelim nary for two of those passengers have already come back negative for ebola, but theres still no word on the state of the other three. Well be watching all of that as well as a potential sa case of ebola out in kansas tonight. The university of kansas hospital reporting an individual called and then came into the hospital earlier this morning, and he has a high fever and other serious symptoms. Because the patient had recently worked on a medical boat off the case of africa the patient was immediately isolated on a special infectious have infectious unit. And hes now undergoing tests. All this coming as there is rising doubt tonight about the federal governments ability to prevent or to control a
Thomas duncan died this morning, 7 15 a. M. At the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in dallas where he was in Critical Condition for days. Despite the president s claim it was unlikely to happen here. Were learning theyre treating another patient for possible ebola. This parity was in contact with family members of Thomas Duncan. Officials a few moments ago in a lively press conference that the new patient shows some sign of possible ebola infection but does not show all the symptoms. Well keep you updated throughout the hour. If we get any news well tell you what it was. Homeland Security Department stepped up screening at nations five biggest airports. Weve joined by dr. Kevin campbell, assistant professor of medicine at university of North Carolina and travel expert mark murphy. Dr. Kevin, i will start with you. The news about this patient dying from ebola in dallas, are we prepared . I think were absolutely unprepared. The fact this patient came to a hospital with a travel histor
Ebola patient in dallas and had some contact with family members. Lou the first cotexas fire chief made the confirmation minutes after centers for Disease Control tom frieden claimed he had no information whatsoever about a second possible victim. And frieden telling america how little control he believes the centers for Disease Control has in the prevention effort against ebola. Dr. Frieden said quote only frieden has ever raised the issue of zero risk or perfection, if you will. The cdc directors comments come after his explanation of a new screening procedure being enacted in just five u. S. Airports. Screening that dr. Frieden says will only apply to about 150 passengers a day. We take you thrive dallas, texas for a full report in just moments. Also tonight secretary of state john kerry and pentagon spokesperson rear admiral john kirby suggested the kurdish town of kobani is not a priority for this administration. The Syrian Border town of nearly 200,000 appears likely to fall to t
Some of them turned out to be malaria, but now ebola is in the United States. What do we know about the patient . Hes a liberian who arrived in the u. S. On the 20th. Was said to be asymptom attic. It is highly unlikely he came in contact with someone at the point to transmit the infection to them. However, once he got here to the United States and he was staying with relatives in dallas, he began to fall ill on about the 24th. He was so ill that on the 26th he went to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in the northern part of dallas to seek treatment. Two days later he was admitted to the hospital based on his symptoms and the fact that he was traveling from western africa, placed into strict isolation. Now heres where things get worrisome, because, greta, he was in contact with a number of people between the 24th when he fell ill and the 28th when he was allowed into the hospital before he was placed in strict isolation. Dr. Tom friedman held a lengthy president conference just a whi