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Texas healthcare worker is diagnosed with Ebola

Ebola disease has been diagnosed in a health worker in Texas, state health officials said Sunday 12 October. The worker, who press reports say is a nurse, took care of a Liberian man who fell ill shortly after arriving in the United States and later died of Ebola disease.1

The worker is the second person to contract the disease outside Africa. The first, Teresa Romero, is a Spanish nurse who cared for two Spanish missionaries who had been flown home from Africa after becoming ill.2

In a press briefing Sunday the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tom Frieden, said it was not known how the Texas health worker had become infected, “but at some point there was a breach in protocol and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection.” The worker had “extensive contact” with the Liberian patient while he was in the hospital, Frieden said.

The patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, flew from Liberia 19 September and arrived in Dallas the next day. He had no symptoms …