Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Second Nurse Infected with Ebola

Two nurses that treated the first Ebola patient in Dallas, Texas have contracted the deadly virus. This now makes three cases of Ebola in the United States and all three cases in Dallas, Texas. The New York Time reports that the second nurse to contract the virus is 29 year old, Amber Joy Vinson. The news of a second infected person was just the tip of the iceberg as we soon learned that this person had just taken a commercial flight from Ohio to Texas. Vinson, like the rest of the staff that attended to Thomas Eric Duncan, were to be self monitoring for any symptoms of the virus. The CDC allowed Vinson to travel because she did not have a fever, but the next day after arriving in Texas she was showing symptoms. Ms. Vinson is now in Atlanta being treated at Emory University Hospital.

The President and the CDC have then heavily criticized because the public feels like they have not handled the outbreak of Ebola. According to The New York Times the CDC has changed the amount of protection that it required health workers to wear when dealing with infected patients. The President has canceled trips to meet with committees to discuss how to deal with this outbreak. The news that there are more people getting sick and that one of them travel to another state has sparked fear in the public. All we can do now is wait to see what the President and CDC come up with to contain this virus.



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