Nurse in Texas contracted Ebola from a patient Liberyjczyka, despite the fact that when dealing with him wore full protective clothing – said on Sunday, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Please determining how the infection occurred.
Earlier sex infected hospital employee was not refine. However, according to a representative of authority who is acquainted with the case, cited by CNN, it’s about a nurse who took care of the sick man.
According to the head of Tom Frieden, the CDC shows that the infection occurred through the failure force in the situation procedures. This means that other hospital staff who looked after Liberyjczykiem, also can become infected.
– estimate the probability of infection in other hospital staff – Frieden said at a press conference.
CDC checks the hospital staff involved in Liberyjczykiem actually doffing protective clothing, and will examine the way in which the patient’s dialysis was performed and intubation – Frieden said in the program “Face the Nation.”
We estimate the probability of infection in other hospital staff.
Preliminary studies showed that the woman who took care of a patient with Ebola Liberyjczykiem at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, also contracted the virus. Collected from the sample sent to the laboratory CDC in Atlanta, where additional tests will be carried out. The results are expected on Sunday.
As said Frieden, relatively small “intensity occurring in infected women the symptoms and results of preliminary studies suggest that the level of virus in her low”.
Woman Friday evening announced that it has a slight fever. Was placed in solitary confinement and subjected to testing. – We knew that there might be a second chance, and we were prepared for that possibility – said the head of the health service in Texas, David Lakey. He assured that the doctors are doing everything in their power to prevent the spread of the virus.
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