Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker

mdsolar tips news that a second healthcare worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for the Ebola virus. Like the nurse who tested positive a few days ago, this worker was involved in providing care to Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who seems to have brought the virus into the country. The CDC is working to identify further exposures to the local community, though the Times says a second infection among the 70+ medical professionals who were around Duncan is not unexpected. The largest U.S. nurses union says a lack of proper protective gear and constantly changing protocols are to blame for exposures. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says infection rates in West Africa are such that within a few months, they can expect 10,000 new Ebola cases a week. They also say the death rate for the current outbreak has risen to 70 percent.

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Re:Just tell me

[Gr8Apes]

Definitely agree with this, there's no excuse to have been as ignorant and unprepared as this particular hospital has proven to be. A statement from the first case said that nurses got no training on ebola until quite a while after the patient had been admitted. You'd think that any hospital in a first world country would be going "there's lots of travel, we may get a case, here's a basic set of guidelines to handle a suspected ebola patient" at a minimum. Especially after the CDC had already sent out notices to do so.