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Ebola outbreak: US prepares for more infections | Ebola outbreak: US prepares for more infections |
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Ebola could infect more US health workers, a senior US official leading the effort to contain the virus has said. | Ebola could infect more US health workers, a senior US official leading the effort to contain the virus has said. |
Investigators are now interviewing hospital staff those who cared for Liberian Thomas Duncan, who died in Dallas, said Tom Frieden, of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). | Investigators are now interviewing hospital staff those who cared for Liberian Thomas Duncan, who died in Dallas, said Tom Frieden, of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). |
On Sunday a woman who had treated Mr Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola. | On Sunday a woman who had treated Mr Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola. |
The outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people in Africa since March. | The outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people in Africa since March. |
Mr Duncan died last week in hospital in Dallas, Texas, after being diagnosed with the disease on 30 September. | Mr Duncan died last week in hospital in Dallas, Texas, after being diagnosed with the disease on 30 September. |
'Stable condition' | |
The infected nurse was one of many healthcare workers who treated Mr Duncan. She contracted the virus from him despite taking considerable precautions to shield herself. | The infected nurse was one of many healthcare workers who treated Mr Duncan. She contracted the virus from him despite taking considerable precautions to shield herself. |
On Sunday, Dr Frieden said a "breach of protocol" had clearly occurred, though on Monday he clarified that he had not intended to fault the nurse nor Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. | |
"We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control because even a single infection is unacceptable," Dr Frieden said on Monday. | "We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control because even a single infection is unacceptable," Dr Frieden said on Monday. |
The infection made the nurse the first person to contract Ebola inside the US. She is now said to be in a stable condition in hospital. | The infection made the nurse the first person to contract Ebola inside the US. She is now said to be in a stable condition in hospital. |
Her home has been cleaned and sanitised. | |
From an interview with the 26-year-old nurse, public health investigators have identified only a single person with whom she had contact during the period when she could have been infectious. | |
That person, along with 48 contacts of Mr Duncan and the healthcare workers who treated him, are being monitored for signs of the disease. | |
"All of us have to work together to do whatever's possible to reduce the risk that any healthcare worker becomes infected," Dr Frieden said. | |
Dr Frieden also said the CDC was encouraging all hospitals in the US to "think Ebola" when presented with patients who had Ebola-like symptoms and who had travelled within the past 21 days to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three West African countries being ravaged by the disease. |