About 100 more people, most of them health care workers, are being tracked in Texas after coming in contact with the first patient diagnosed in the United States in late September.Hospital Requiring Patients To Knock Before Entering ER...
Still, officials said it was reassuring that no new infections had emerged in recent days.
"We are breathing a little bit easier, but we are still holding our breath," said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
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◼ The American Ebola patient you haven’t heard about - The Right Scoop
Apparently there is a secret Ebola patient that is on the way to a full recovery that no one has mentioned yet. As a friend of mine wondered, if this Ebola patient had died would anyone have told us about it?
◼ Another U.S. Ebola Patient Recovers at Emory - NBC
◼ Trial Ebola Vaccine Set for January Rollout in West Africa, WHO Says - NBC
The WHO, in consultation with health authorities in the countries most affected by the outbreak of the disease that has killed more than 4,500, will decide on how the experimental vaccine will be distributed and used. About 1,000 people a week are being infected with Ebola, according to the organization, which has warned the number could rise to between 5,000 and 10,000 a week. The WHO has cautioned that experimental vaccines cannot immediately help to control the worsening epidemic, but could be used to help protect the health workers needed to get it under control.
◼ Infection Protection: New CDC Ebola Guidelines Stress Gear Ritual
...the CDC has received more than 400 calls from hospitals who feared they had an Ebola patient. About 10 percent seemed worth investigating, he said. Not one since Duncan has turned out to actually have Ebola. But the CDC expects more cases could come so long as Ebola continues to ravage Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
