A 46 yr old Ohio woman is awaiting tests results to prove or disprove that she is infected with Ebola. The woman recently traveled to one of the 3 West African countries where the Ebola Virus is raging and has killed around 900 people so far. There was a man at Johns Hopkins Hospital where an ER Doctor thought the man had Ebola but it turned out that all he had was malaria. That man had also just returned from Liberia.
There are 2 USA aide workers one a doctor and the other a nurse who have both tested positive for Ebola that are now convalescing in an isolation ward at the CDC in Atlanta, GA. The male Dr. Brantley is doing very well according to news reports and the news had actual footage of him in one of those Isolation suits getting out of the ambulance on his own accord and walking into the CDC. I don't understand why these 2 aide workers were brought back here to the USA? I mean, I know we have much better hospitals but they were fine where they were. What if they infect family members who have come to visit them? Or other health personnel? Ebola is not passed by casual contact, so obviously these 2 were not following proper protocols at their aide stations.Otherwise they would not have gotten infected. That's what I really loved at UC Davis on my most recent hospitalizations, the doctors and nurses always used hand sanitizer when entering and exiting my room and most wore gloves also. I wish them both a speedy recovery.
The death toll of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone climbed to 887, the World Health Organization said Monday. 1,603 people have been infected, in all.
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