Second Texas Healthcare Worker Diagnosed with Ebola Virus

October 15th, 2014

How can Thomas Duncan’s family not have it?

Via: Guardian:

A second Texas healthcare worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient in the US to be diagnosed with Ebola, has tested positive for the virus, the department of state health services said on Wednesday.

The worker was immediately isolated after reporting a fever on Tuesday.

“Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored,” the department said.

At a press briefing on Wednesday morning, Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings said the city’s fire-rescue department has begun decontaminating common areas of the new patient’s apartment and outside the building, and has informed neighbors of the diagnosis. The new patient lives alone and has no pets, Rawlings said.

“The only way that we are going to beat this is person by person, moment by moment, detail by detail,” Rawlings said. “We want to deal with facts, not fear … It may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better,” he added.

A nurse, 26-year-old Nina Pham, was the first person to have been infected with Ebola in the US, and was diagnosed this weekend. She had cared for Duncan during much of his 11 days as a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas. He died in an isolation ward on 8 October.

The hospital said on Tuesday that Pham was in good condition.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it was performing confirmation testing of Texas’s preliminary examinations on the new patient.

“An additional healthcare worker testing positive for Ebola is a serious concern, and the CDC has already taken active steps to minimise the risk to healthcare workers and the patient,” it said.

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4 Responses to “Second Texas Healthcare Worker Diagnosed with Ebola Virus”

  1. steve holmes says:

    The family may be ok- the nurses changed bed pans, inserted tubes, hooked up dialysis equipment, pulled tubes up out of his mouth, etc.

  2. mangrove says:

    Total psy-op, hoax, false-flag, or whatever terminology you want to call it. Trouble is, they can lock us down and make the vaccine mandatory even though it’s a fake outbreak.

    I’ve got a new forum where I’m keeping up with Ebo-LIE daily, if anyone’s interested in reading and/or contributing.

    between | the | lines
    http://between.yuku.com/

  3. alvinroast says:

    Perhaps the more correct question to ask would be: “Why would Thomas Eric Duncan’s family have Ebola?”

    Why would the Director of Management and Operations Overseas at Peace Corps have Ebola to begin with?

    @mangrove – Thanks for the link. Perhaps I should move any discussion to your forum.

  4. mangrove says:

    alvinroast, please feel free to join in — it’s extremely small, membership-wise, and I plan to keep it that way. No sheeple allowed. 🙂

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