‘Breach In Protocol’ Leads To Latest Ebola Diagnosis « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

‘Breach In Protocol’ Leads To Latest Ebola Diagnosis « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth.

“DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Health officials are still working to determine how a nurse who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Duncan in Dallas contracted the deadly virus, one day after the CDC confirmed the positive test result.

The nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who is a former student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, has been unable to pinpoint exactly how and when she contracted Ebola.

The nurse, who has not been publicly identified, wore protective gear while treating the Liberian patient, said Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Duncan was the first person in the U.S. diagnosed with Ebola…”

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Relief Official Urges Groups to Step Up Ebola Efforts

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and SHERI FINKAUG. 19, 2014

 

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “a complete disaster,” and health agencies do not yet grasp its scope, the president of the relief group Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.

“No one yet has the full measure of the magnitude of this crisis,” the president, Dr. Joanne Liu, said in an interview. “We don’t have good data collection. We don’t have enough surveillance…..”

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Death toll from Ebola outbreak in West Africa rises to 1350

 

 

DAKAR Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:54pm EDT

Aug 20 (Reuters) – The death toll from the Ebola oubreak in West Africa has risen to 1,350, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, with 106 new deaths reported between August 17-18 in three countries.

 

The U.N. health agency said that 221 new suspected, probable and confirmed cases of the deadly fever were reported across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone over the two-day period.

 

(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Daniel Flynn)

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