So now that a hospital worker has tested positive for Ebola, officials are looking at all the staffers who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan while he was alive. The Associated Press reports: About 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital (pictured) were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was hospitalized, including a nurse now being treated for the same Ebola virus that killed the Liberian man who was visiting Dallas, according to medical records his family provided to the Associated Press. ... On Monday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the infection of the nurse means the agency must broaden the pool of people getting close monitoring. Authorities have said they do not know how the nurse was infected, but they suspect some kind of breach in the hospitals protocol. Read the rest here: newsone/3061863/texas-presbyterian-hospital-thomas-eric-duncan
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:35:41 +0000
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