Sunday, October 12, 2014

Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola

Officials in Texas say a healthcare worker who treated a Liberian man who died of Ebola last week has tested positive for the disease.

The patient is now in isolation in a Dallas hospital.

Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.

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Dr. Dan Varga, a spokesman for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, is urging members of the public in Dallas not to over-react to the news of another case.

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Reporter Taylor Millard is in Dallas.

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Dr. William Schaffner [[ SHAFF-nur ]] of Vanderbilt University told America's CNN that the health care worker's proactive measures to contain the illness will reduce the chances that others will contract it.

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Meanwhile enhanced screening for infection with the Ebola virus is underway has begun at airports in the United States.

Rachel Silverman reports.


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