This is urgent news, the CDC has just now confirmed the first case of Ebola in the USA. The patient was walking around with symptoms for five days. There is a possibility that this may spread. Ebola has now hit the USA. The patient is unidentified and is going to remain that way. He was being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas. ‘
According to the CDC the danger of this spreading is absolutely none. However we know just how reliable the CDC is, and that means there is a big chance it will spread in the USA.
This is only one patient out of two that have potential Ebola, the other is at an NIH facility in the US, near Washington DC.
Frieden from the CDC:
“This is the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. and the first strain of this Ebola diagnosed outside of Africa,” Frieden said. “I have no doubt that we will control this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country. It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
“I have no doubt that we will stop this in its tracks,” Frieden said, but as long as the epidemic is spreading out of control in West Africa, “we have to be on our guard.”
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