American official: The Case of Ebola because of a loophole safety procedures
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday, including that a loophole in the Biosafety Protocol are the cause of transmission of the Ebola virus to the first case of an American, a health worker in Dallas, while officials said at a news conference that the infected was wearing full protective clothing.
The Department of Health Services, Texas, announced the injury of one of the American health care workers in a hospital in Dallas in the state, Ebola virus, and after their participation in the treatment of Liberians had been infected with the virus.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tom Frieden They do not know what happened when the original patient care in Dallas, adding that the gap in the Biosafety Protocol are the cause of transmission of the Ebola virus to the health workforce.
Contain the virus
Frieden warned that there may be more cases of infection in the United States in the coming days, but said the authorities were working on an ongoing basis to ensure the containment of the virus. And check Centers for Disease Control in anticipation of the existence of more potential loopholes in the protocol, which can lead to more cases of infection.
Frieden: There may be more cases in the coming days Baapola (Reuters)
The hospital worker -lm reveals its name provides care for Eric Thomas Duncan, a Liberian patient was first diagnosed with the injury Ebola virus outside Africa. Duncan died due to the disease in the same hospital on Wednesday.
And is subject to 48 people were in contact Bduncan before being isolated in a hospital in Texas, to control the symptoms of fear of them.
Frieden said if the patient is not a new one of those 48 people, but a member of the team that was offering health care to Duncan after he was diagnosed with the injury. And hit the patient with the virus despite wearing full protective clothing.
Protective clothing
The official said the medical Texas Dan empty the workforce were pursuing their own symptoms of the Ebola virus when he scored a slight rise in temperature and went to the hospital, explaining she was wearing protective clothing identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when exposed to injury, adding, "We are very worried."
Said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said police beat the gasket around the residence of the woman, and the hazardous materials team sanitize common areas in the apartment complex, which includes her apartment, and also purged her car and stair handrail and common areas in the hospital.
Rawlings said that the authorities had campaigned from house to house to Marketa residential complex, which includes 5,700 apartments in Dallas, where she lived infected woman to inform the population developments, adding that there were reports about the presence of a pet in her apartment.
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