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original post »Earlier today, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced that a second healthcare worker had tested positive for Ebola virus infection. The individual had also worked at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and cared for the first person diagnosed within the US, Thomas Eric Duncan. The fact that two caregivers were infected gives credence to suggestions that the hospital lacked either sufficient procedures to prevent contamination or sufficient training in them.
The newly diagnosed individual began experiencing a fever on Tuesday and was immediately brought to the hospital and placed in isolation. Health officials have already identified people that the infected person has been in contact with and will be monitoring them for the next several weeks. Reuters' report on the news indicates that the individual is a nurse, and it quotes Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings as saying the person lived alone, which should limit additional routes of infection. Dallas authorities are already cleaning areas frequented by the patient.
The first US-based nurse who was infected has since been identified as Nina Pham. She is listed in good condition by the hospital that's caring for her—the same one she worked in.
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