DALLAS (AP) — A Texas health care worker who was in full protective gear while providing hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive for the virus and is in stable condition, health officials said Sunday. If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.
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Meanwhile, a top federal health official said the health care worker's Ebola diagnosis shows there was a clear breach of safety protocol and all those who treated Thomas Eric Duncan are now considered to be potentially exposed.

Dr. Daniel Varga, of the Texas Health Resources, said during a news conference Sunday that the worker wore a gown, gloves, mask and shield while they provided care to Duncan during his second visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Varga did not identify the worker and says the family of the worker has "requested total privacy."

Varga says the health care worker reported a fever Friday night as part of a self-monitoring regimen required by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said another person also remains in isolation, and the hospital has stopped accepting new emergency room patients.

Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died Wednesday in Dallas.

"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said in a statement Sunday. "We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread."
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But Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Sunday raised concerns about a possible breach of safety protocol and told CBS' "Face the Nation" that among the things CDC will investigate is how the workers took off that gear — because removing it incorrectly can lead to a contamination.

"I think the fact that we don't know of a breach in protocol is concerning, because clearly there was a breach in protocol," Frieden said. "We have the ability to prevent the spread of Ebola by caring safely for patients ... We'll conduct a full investigation of what happens before health workers go in, what happens when they're there, and what happens in the taking out, taking off their protective equipment because infections only occur when there's a breach in protocol."

Health officials have interviewed the patient and are identifying any contacts or potential exposures. They said people who had contact with the health care worker after symptoms emerged will be monitored based on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus.

Officials said they also received information that there may be a pet in the health care worker's apartment, and they have a plan in place to care for the animal. They do not believe the pet has signs of having contracted Ebola.

Judge Clay Jenkins, Dallas County's top administrative official, said the unidentified health care worker is a "heroic" person who "was proud to provide care to Mr. Duncan." He said the health care worker's family has requested privacy because they are "going through a great ordeal."
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More than 4,000 people have died in the ongoing Ebola epidemic centered in West Africa, according to World Health Organization figures published Friday. Almost all of those deaths have been in the three worst-affected countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Health care workers treating Ebola patients are among the most vulnerable, even if wearing protective gear. A Spanish nurse assistant recently became the first health care worker infected outside west Africa during the ongoing outbreak: she helped care for a missionary priest who was brought to a Madrid hospital. More than 370 health care workers in west Africa have fallen ill or died in west Africa since epidemic began earlier this year.

Ebola spreads through close contact with a symptomatic person's bodily fluids, such as blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen. Those fluids must have an entry point, like a cut or scrape or someone touching the nose, mouth or eyes with contaminated hands, or being splashed. The World Health Organization says blood, feces and vomit are the most infectious fluids, while the virus is found in saliva mostly once patients are severely ill and the whole live virus has never been culled from sweat.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died Wednesday in Dallas. Duncan grew up next to a leper colony in Liberia and fled years of war before later returning to his country to find it ravaged by the disease that ultimately took his life.

Duncan arrived in Dallas in late September, realizing a long-held ambition to join relatives. He came to attend the high-school graduation of his son, who was born in a refugee camp in Ivory Coast and was brought to the U.S. as a toddler when the boy's mother successfully applied for resettlement.

The trip was the culmination of decades of effort, friends and family members said. But when Duncan arrived in Dallas, though he showed no symptoms, he had already been exposed to Ebola. His neighbors in Liberia believe Duncan become infected when he helped a pregnant neighbor who later died from it. It was unclear if he knew about her diagnosis before traveling.

Duncan had arrived at a friend's Dallas apartment on Sept. 20 — less than a week after helping his sick neighbor. For the nine days before he was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, Duncan shared the apartment with several people.

God,pls help us.Even the almighty America has been hit with the deadly virus again.

Don't panic it is all an elaborate hoax.
There is no such thing as Ebola.

It is psychological manipulation to justify the USA using its World Bank and IMF loans to take over the valuable natural resources of the West African region.

livinbygrace:
God,pls help us.Even the almighty America has been hit with the deadly virus again.

livinbygrace:
God,pls help us.Even the almighty America has been hit with the deadly virus again.

Only God is almighty

GenBuhari:
Don't panic it is all an elaborate hoax.
There is no such thing as Ebola.
It is psychological manipulation to justify the USA using its World Bank and IMF loans to take over the valuable natural resources of the West African region.

stop posting stup1d stuff everywhere

Remember Ebola cannot kill you because it is a hoax, but sheep mentality may well kill you! beware!

birdman:


Only God is almighty



stop posting stup1d stuff everywhere

GenBuhari:
Remember Ebola cannot kill you because it is a hoax, but sheep mentality may well kill you! beware! [size=2pt]PapiWata Gtrust[/size]

Ha ha .... Ebola a hoax .... jeez ....
let me introduce you to @InvertedHammer .... he too shares your same belief that Ebola is a hoax and in fact he also believes that if you drink 2 gallons of pure water at night you can cure yourself of Ebola.
I think you and @InvertedHammer should get together and come up with more medical marvels, UFO - Ebola conspiracy theories etc for our entertainment .... .

No need to cure something that doesn't exist.
Remember Ebola cannot kill you (it does not exist) , but panic about Ebola terrorism can kill you.

kobonaire:

Ha ha .... Ebola a hoax .... jeez ....
let me introduce you to @InvertedHammer .... he too shares your same belief that Ebola is a hoax and in fact he also believes that if you drink 2 gallons of pure water at night you can cure yourself of Ebola.
I think you and @InvertedHammer should get together and come up with more medical marvels, UFO - Ebola conspiracy theories etc for our entertainment .... .

What I call sheep mentality is the belief that following the official line like everyone else without engage your brain to analyse if information you are being given is accurate. It appear that this may apply to you because you have not even bothered to ask me what evidence I have to reach my conclusion that Ebola is a hoax.

The only pandemic in Nigeria is sheep mentality. Sheep mentality is real and it can kill!

kobonaire:

Ha ha .... Ebola a hoax .... jeez ....
let me introduce you to @InvertedHammer .... he too shares your same belief that Ebola is a hoax and in fact he also believes that if you drink 2 gallons of pure water at night you can cure yourself of Ebola.
I think you and @InvertedHammer should get together and come up with more medical marvels, UFO - Ebola conspiracy theories etc for our entertainment .... .

This is serious, it goes to show that Naija did a good job in containing the disease, am proud of my country and pray this disease gets contained and the international community need to take this disease serious and help Liberia and Co in stopping this disease.

GenBuhari:
What I call sheep mentality is the belief that following the official line like everyone else without engage your brain to analyse if information you are being given is accurate. It appear that this may apply to you because you have not even bothered to ask me what evidence I have to reach my conclusion that Ebola is a hoax.

The only pandemic in Nigeria is sheep mentality. Sheep mentality is real and it can kill!

Ok my guy, my apologies about that.
So now can you please explain why you believe that Ebola is a hoax and please present your evidence too.
Thank you.

Ebola is no Hoax. Here in my hand i hold a copy of the PATENT US20120251502 A1 this is owned by the U.S Government. Check this yourself online. There have been around 800 Ebola deαths this year and at no time was a drug treatment for the disease offered to African patients.
In fact, 2 U.S (whites) were treated in San Diego, CA.

Eric Duncan an Liberian national was not given the same care and treatment given to the other white folks infected with the Ebola virus , guess what! He is dead.

Nigeria! Shine your EYES

Accountability!
Lets be more proactive great Nigerians we need to ask more questions from our government. I personally have written and called my Representative to seek answers to critical matters in my community.

We cant remain Passive forever! Ask your governors, senators, pastors, mayors...etc

God Bless Nigeria

kobonaire:

Ha ha .... Ebola a hoax .... jeez ....
let me introduce you to @InvertedHammer .... he too shares your same belief that Ebola is a hoax and in fact he also believes that if you drink 2 gallons of pure water at night you can cure yourself of Ebola.
I think you and @InvertedHammer should get together and come up with more medical marvels, UFO - Ebola conspiracy theories etc for our entertainment .... .

UFO? Ahh... abeg o. He might take you serious and start to "research"

birdman:
UFO? Ahh... abeg o. He might take you serious and start to "research"

I got that UFO joke from PapiWata interaction with the General on this same Ebola issue .. he's a funny guy .. his post on another thread

GenBuhari:
Don't panic it is all an elaborate hoax.
There is no such thing as Ebola.

It is psychological manipulation to justify the USA using its World Bank and IMF loans to take over the valuable natural resources of the West African region.

Are you sure of that or just an allegation?

100% sure

ak4God:


Are you sure of that or just an allegation?

GenBuhari:
100% sure

Prove that the accusation is true by showing proof.

I will answer you by posing some questions that should get you thinking; if you fail to find answers to the questions then it would be odd if you do not start to question the existence of Ebola.



1. find a youtube video of a person dying from the classic symptoms of Ebola

2. Find a facebook or twitter account (or web presence) of any of the hundreds of Doctors and medical staff that has been reported to have have died in any of the affected countries including Nigeria.

3. Explain how the communities supposedly ravaged by ebola are saying Ebola is a hoax?

4. Why is there not the same hype for rabies which is far more deadly?

5. Why is ebola only affecting countries in West with valuable natural resources and and that have close links to USA

6. Why asked who is at risk the hoaxers say medical staff instead of relatives of infected people. If all these doctors and nurses with their excessive protective clothing are infected and dying off so easily, why are relatives and communites not being wiped out to the extent that people in the region are saying Ebola is a hoax.

7.Why is it that the virus seems to discriminate between the races, no white American has ever died from the disease in 40years

8. Why is it called incurable while many people survive and recover?


Now my friend, if you can not give credible answers to at lease some of the questions then you would be unwise to not to question whether Ebola truely exists.

kobonaire:

Ok my guy, my apologies about that.
So now can you please explain why you believe that Ebola is a hoax and please present your evidence too.
Thank you.

GenBuhari:
I will answer you by posing some questions that should get you thinking; if you fail to find answers to the question, then it would be odd if you do not start to question the existence of Ebola.

Kindly post it for confirmation.

GenBuhari:
I will answer you by posing some questions that should get you thinking; if you fail to find answers to the questions then it would be odd if you do not start to question the existence of Ebola.
1. find a youtube video of a person dying from the classic symptoms of Ebola

2. Find a facebook or twitter account (or web presence) of any of the hundreds of Doctors and medical staff that has been reported to have have died in any of the affected countries including Nigeria.

3. Explain how the communities supposedly ravaged by ebola are saying Ebola is a hoax?

4. Why is there not the same hype for rabies which is far more deadly?

5. Why is ebola only affecting countries in West with valuable natural resources and and that have close links to USA

6. Why asked who is at risk the hoaxers say medical staff instead of relatives of infected people. If all these doctors and nurses with their excessive protective clothing are infected and dying off so easily, why are relatives and communites not being wiped out to the extent that people in the region are saying Ebola is a hoax.

7.Why is it that the virus seems to discriminate between the races, no white American has ever died from the disease in 40years

8. Why is it called incurable while many people survive and recover?

Now my friend, if you can not give credible answers to at lease some of the questions then you would be unwise to not to question whether Ebola truely exists.

General, My responses to your questions in bold:

1. find a youtube video of a person dying from the classic symptoms of Ebola
Really General? Youtube is what is making you believe a medical condition? Why do you expect people to upload a video of their loved one dying of Ebola? Do you see someone upload a video of a loved of dying of heart attack or cancer?? Medical doctors, medical teams etc certify cause of death.
Anyway since you asked for a youtube videos, here are some video1 video2

2. Find a facebook or twitter account (or web presence) of any of the hundreds of Doctors and medical staff that has been reported to have have died in any of the affected countries including Nigeria.
Why is it mandatory for someone to have have a twitter or facebook account. C'mmon general, you know better than that? If I don't have wither account does that mean i do not exist?? If you delete your social-networking accounts, does that mean you have no physical existence? Oga-mi ...

3. Explain how the communities supposedly ravaged by ebola are saying Ebola is a hoax?
Those poor and rural communities are sadly full of illiterates.

4. Why is there not the same hype for rabies which is far more deadly?
Rabies is commonly passed on when you are bitten (or scratched) either by a rabied dog or bat. Ebola on the other-hand is highly infectious and so if you even come into contact with a sick person's bodily fluids you are at risk of exposure to the virus.

5. Why is ebola only affecting countries in West with valuable natural resources and and that have close links to USA
Sorry, Liberia and Guinea have absolutely nothing to offer for their citizens not to even talk of what they offer to the United States in terms of resources.

6. Why asked who is at risk the hoaxers say medical staff instead of relatives of infected people. If all these doctors and nurses with their excessive protective clothing are infected and dying off so easily, why are relatives and communites not being wiped out to the extent that people in the region are saying Ebola is a hoax.
Protocol mistakes happen and slip-ups occur. Even the smallest contact with a patient's bodily fluids will put you at the risk of contacting Ebola/

7.Why is it that the virus seems to discriminate between the races, no white American has ever died from the disease in 40years It does not discriminate by race. The disease originated in Africa and so naturally there are only African deaths. Caucasian Americans have contacted the disease and have survived due to timely and superior treatment.

8. Why is it called incurable while many people survive and recover?
It is not called incurable. It is said to have a high risk of death.

I can see a lot of your questions are due to mis-information or not having sufficient knowledge about the disease. I am not a medical professional and have a limited knowledge of the disease. We are all learning aboout Ebola and it's dangers but make not mistake ... EBOLA IS REAL AND NOT A HOAX.

I encourage you to read the wiki article on Ebola. It has been well written and all sources well referenced too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease

My friend, I hope i have been able to convince you. Thank you.