Showing posts with label Dallas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dallas. Show all posts

3 Oct 2014

Ebola-CDC Issues Red Alert As Algorithm For Evaluation Of Returned Traveller Is Released

Duncan on the right, the man who brought to the US
The United States Centre for Disease Control, CDC, has issues a nationwide red alert following the first case of Ebola recorded in the country.

The disease was brought into Dallas, United States by Thomas Eric Duncan on September 20. In an interview with Association Press, Duncan’s sister Mai Wureh identified him.

Duncan was sent home last week by a Dallas emergency room even though he told a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa. The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to release him could have put others at risk of exposure to Ebola before he went back to the ER a couple of days later when his condition worsened.