First Ebola Case in US

A patient has been diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on US soil for the first time, according to federal health officials in Texas. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the case on Tuesday afternoon, a day after the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas announced that it was testing a patient for Ebola.

The unnamed man is thought to have been infected in Liberia before travelling to the US, where he first exhibited symptoms of the virus a few days later. He is being kept in isolation. Several American doctors and aid workers who were infected while tackling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa have recently returned home to be treated at US hospitals.

The first was Fort Worth physician Dr Kent Brantly, who became infected while working in Liberia, and recovered after being moved to a hospital in Atlanta. President Barack Obama said last month that the US would offer military and medical help to combat the disease.

Source:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ebola-first-case-of-deadly-virus-diagnosed-in-us-9766084.html

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