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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