A second health care worker who cared for an
Ebola patient at a Dallas hospital has contracted
the virus herself.
The worker, a woman who lives alone, was quickly
moved into isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian
Hospital, authorities said Wednesday.
The news cast further doubt on the hospital's
ability to handle Ebola and protect employees. It's
the same hospital that initially sent Thomas Eric
Duncan home, even though he had a fever and
had traveled from West Africa. By the time he
returned to the hospital, his symptoms had
worsened. He died while being treated by medical
staff, including the two women who have now
contracted the disease.
"I don't think we have a systematic institutional
problem," Dr. Daniel Varga, chief clinical officer of
Texas Health Resources, told reporters
Wednesday, facing questions about the hospital's
actions.
Medical staff "may have done some things
differently with the benefit of what we know
today," he said, adding, "no one wants to get this
right more than our hospital."
People in the health care worker's office building
were informed when officials went door to door,
and also through early morning reverse 911 calls,
officials said.
The health care worker had no pets, authorities
said.
Seventy-five health care workers in Dallas are
being monitored for any Ebola symptoms, Varga
said.
Separately, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who
is overseeing the response efforts, said 48 other
people in the community still are being monitored
after having contact with Duncan, who was
Dallas' first Ebola patient. Those 48 are
asymptomatic, and Sunday will mark the end of
the window in which they could get sick.
The second worker reported a fever Tuesday and
was immediately isolated, health department
spokeswoman Carrie Williams said. The virus is
not contagious before there are symptoms.

ALISMILE:
A second health care worker who cared for an
Ebola patient at a Dallas hospital has contracted
the virus herself.
The worker, a woman who lives alone, was quickly
moved into isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian
Hospital, authorities said Wednesday.
The news cast further doubt on the hospital's
ability to handle Ebola and protect employees. It's
the same hospital that initially sent Thomas Eric
Duncan home, even though he had a fever and
had traveled from West Africa. By the time he
returned to the hospital, his symptoms had
worsened. He died while being treated by medical
staff, including the two women who have now
contracted the disease.
"I don't think we have a systematic institutional
problem," Dr. Daniel Varga, chief clinical officer of
Texas Health Resources, told reporters
Wednesday, facing questions about the hospital's
actions.
Medical staff "may have done some things
differently with the benefit of what we know
today," he said, adding, "no one wants to get this
right more than our hospital."
People in the health care worker's office building
were informed when officials went door to door,
and also through early morning reverse 911 calls,
officials said.
The health care worker had no pets, authorities
said.
Seventy-five health care workers in Dallas are
being monitored for any Ebola symptoms, Varga
said.
Separately, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who
is overseeing the response efforts, said 48 other
people in the community still are being monitored
after having contact with Duncan, who was
Dallas' first Ebola patient. Those 48 are
asymptomatic, and Sunday will mark the end of
the window in which they could get sick.
The second worker reported a fever Tuesday and
was immediately isolated, health department
spokeswoman Carrie Williams said. The virus is
not contagious before there are symptoms.

why do i feel this is good news for liberia? am i wicked?

The "Patrick Sawyer" scenario, playing out in the US almost identical to the Lagos drama.

Now there is Travel Alert in d US as a nurse diagnosed in Dallas with Ebola
took a flight from Cleveland the day
before she showed symptoms, US health
officials have confirmed.
The US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention is seeking 132 passengers on
Frontier 1143 on 13 October for interviews.
The nurse, the second to contract the disease in
the US, reported symptoms of Ebola on 14
October.
She had treated d Liberian national who died in
Dallas on 8 October.

They can take their Zmapp drug and shove it up their anal orifices for all I care. They ostracized us for months on end! I feel no pity for the American GOVERNMENT, I only feel empathy for it's PEOPLE.

what goes around comes around. it's now their turn to dance to the music of Ebola .