Ebola Patient in US
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CDC Chief: US Doctor Infected With Ebola 'Improving'
An American aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia seems to be improving but authorities are monitoring his condition closely, the top U.S. health official said on Sunday.
"It's encouraging that he seems to be improving — that's really important — and we're hoping he'll continue to improve," said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Dr. Kent Brantly was able to walk, with help, from the helicopter that transported him on Saturday to Atlanta, where he was being...
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CDC: U.S. can't seal borders to stop Ebola
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said on Sunday that while the disease is scary, “the plain truth is, we can stop Ebola. We know how to control it.”
His comments on ABC’s “This Week” came the day after an American doctor who was stricken with the disease while working in Liberia was flown into the United States and transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
“Ebola’s scary, and it’s understandable that with a deadly disease, people are concerned,” Frieden said.
The key to stopping its spread,...
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Why are so many Ebola health-care workers dying from the virus?
The disturbing feature of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa isn't just that it's the largest and deadliest: it's also that so many health workers have lost their lives while caring for the sick.
The death toll right now is at least 60, according to the World Health Organization. To put that into context, in the second biggest outbreak in history—which took place in 1976 in Zaire—only 11 medical personnel died. And that was the first recorded outbreak in history, when measures to prevent transmission of the virus weren't...
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