Dallas, TX – A Texas health worker who provided care for the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States has tested positive for the deadly virus in a preliminary examination, a state health official said on Sunday.
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The health care worker at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported a low-grade fever Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement.
“We knew a second case could be a reality, and we’ve been preparing for this possibility,” said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the health service.
The first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola, Liberia citizen Thomas Eric Duncan, died in an isolation ward of the Dallas hospital on Oct. 8, 11 days after being admitted.
The U.S. government has since ordered five airports to start screening passengers from West Africa for fever.
The number of people known to have died in the worst Ebola outbreak on record has risen to 4,033 out of 8,399 cases in seven countries, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Liberia has been the worst affected country with 2,316 victims, followed by 930 in Sierra Leone, 778 in Guinea, eight in Nigeria and one in the United States, WHO said.
You get the impression this the most screwed up hospital in the world?
I have the impression from what i heard and read, that ebola can be caught via a simple cough.
And in the same way that millions of people today are not careful how they cough, and millions of other people catch their colds, flus, and viruses, and still, people are not careful how they cough or to stay away from others who cough in the same room without sufficient outside air, or on a nearby seat in a plane or bus, we should know that:
ok then, so we don’t mind having a few days off work or study, and we don’t mind having great physical pain weakness and distress, and we don’t mind being forced to ingest ddangerous unhealthy antibiotics into our system, after all, that’s the whole fun, we get cared for, and we have the right to pass our viruses on to another 50 people also.
But OK. But we should know that when it comes to Ebola, we should realize that we are commiting almost certain murder or suicide, before we decide to cough into other peoples breathing space to make people love us for sharing of ourselves with them!