EBOLA In America According To BBC.
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The first case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed in Dallas, Texas.
Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital say the unidentified patient is being kept in isolation.
The man is thought to have contracted the virus in Liberia before travelling to the US nearly two weeks ago.
More than 3,000 people
have already died of Ebola in West Africa and a small number of US aid
workers have recovered after being flown to the US.
Monitoring
According to Mr Frieden,
the unnamed patient left Liberia on 19 September and arrived in the US
the next day to visit relatives, without displaying any symptoms of the
virus.
A hospital official told
reporters on Tuesday the facility already had procedures in place to
deal with any such potential cases.
Preliminary information
indicates that the unnamed patient, who was described as critically ill,
was not involved in treating Ebola-infected patients while in Liberia.
Earlier on Tuesday, the
CDC said the Ebola virus seemed to be contained in Nigeria and Senegal,
with no new cases reported there for almost a month.
It is the world's most deadly outbreak of the virus.culled
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