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Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/12/ebola-texas_n_5972246.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/12/ebola-texas_n_5972246.html
A Texas health worker has contracted Ebola after treating a Liberian who died of the disease at a Dallas hospital last week, raising concern about how U.S. medical guidelines aimed at stopping the spread of the disease were breached.
The infected worker, identified as a woman but not named by authorities as they announced the case on Sunday, is believed to be the first person to contract the disease in the United States.
Health officials said the worker at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had been wearing protective gear during treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan. Duncan was a Liberian who died on Wednesday after being exposed to Ebola in his home country and developing the disease while visiting the United States.
The outbreak in West Africa, the worst outbreak on record of Ebola, has killed more than 4,000 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The new case in Texas indicated a professional lapse that may have caused other health workers at the hospital to also be infected, said the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"We don't know what occurred in the care of the index patient, the original patient, in Dallas, but at some point there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection," CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden told a news conference.
"We are evaluating other potential healthcare worker exposures because if this individual was exposed, which they were, it is possible that other individuals were exposed," he said.
The worker was in close contact with Duncan and initial testing shows that the level of virus in her system is low. The CDC will conduct a secondary test to confirm the results from a lab in Austin that showed Ebola infection, he said.
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I live in Texas -
Duncan smashed
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That ? airborne than a muthafucka.
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Yall Texas posters be safe....
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damn.
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FuriousOne wrote: »The worker was in close contact with Duncan and initial testing shows that the level of virus in her system is low. The CDC will conduct a secondary test to confirm the results from a lab in Austin that showed Ebola infection, he said.
Why the ? would they bring it here? They don't have enough labs in Dallas? -
They gonna have you ? running into mexico like andele!!!
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Be safe yall. Start wearing a surgical mask & gloves
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Chuckpilgrim wrote: »Be safe yall. Start wearing a surgical mask & gloves
I'm gonna eat out your ? so we can die from Ebola together -
@DoUwant2go2Heaven? Is this the sign?
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Damn! Im 35 miles from Dallas. ? getting real
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Im moving to Austin anyway, so everyone in Dallas can have qith that
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Maybe its time for Texas to secede like they always say they would.
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Damn!
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Damn the government hates Texas that bad... smh damn crackers say they gon wipe Texas of the map with ebola ?
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I don't even be in that part of Dallas anyway
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Scientist people of the IC, ebola aint airborne now since there would be a lot more dead people obviously, but can it and will it mutate so that it is airborne in the future? How ? would we be?
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Man made disease
Random subjects infected -
Glad I moved outta Dallas before all this happened.I wouldn.t wanna touch a door ? there.
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Chuckpilgrim wrote: »Be safe yall. Start wearing a surgical mask & gloves
I'm gonna eat out your ? so we can die from Ebola together
Ill be safe. I got white in me. -
We could do well without the state of Texas.
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Ebola isn't man made, been around since before the middle ages.
Y'all tripping cause these viruses seemingly start in Africa, well that sucks that it's the case, but the fact of the matter is a majority of the continent is being forced into poverty by greedy, corrupt, and genocidal dictators and generals.
These ? who ran the countries deliberately keep food, water, and hygiene from their people in those corrupt countries.
Africa and India are the perfect storms for disease to run wild.
