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DemocratSinceBirth

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Wed Oct 15, 2014, 09:32 AM Oct 2014

Second health care worker who treated Thomas Duncan diagnosed with EBOLA





(CNN) -- 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.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-outbreak/index.html
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