As Ebola ravages West Africa, and Europe realizes they may be on the edge of a massive Ebola outbreak, following the death of America's first Ebola patient in Dallas, another infected individual has emerged in the United States.
The newest Ebola patient also lives in Dallas. Neighbors of the infected healthcare worker are being told of her infection, and are being given paperwork that tells them what to look for regarding their own health. The upside is that since the newest patient is a healthcare worker, she was probably careful, and did not just assume she had the flu.
During a news conference, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stressed that the spread of Ebola can be controlled.
At the same time, though, Dr. Tom Frieden cautioned: "Unfortunately it is possible in the coming days we will see additional cases of Ebola" in health care workers. Exposure can result from a "single inadvertent slip," he said.
"We have spoken with the health care worker," who cannot "identify the specific breach" that allowed the infection to spread during the treatment of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.
The healthcare worker that has been infected was one of the nurses that had "extensive contact" with Ebola Tom, the first U.S. case of Ebola who recently died from the disease.
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