Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden will provide an update at 11 a.m. ET Sunday on the response to the second case of Ebola in Dallas, the first person-to-persion transmission on US soil. As reported earlier, a health care worker, who cared for Liberian Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, tested positive for the disease, hospital officials announced Sunday. Duncan died on Wednesday. The CDC will conduct confirmatory tests on Sunday and share the results after the patient, who has not been identified, is notified, according to a CDC statement.
Here are the punchlines from CDC's Tom Frieden:
- "We don't know what happened in the care of the index patient, but there was a breach in the protocol." i.e., the nurse's fault.
- "Unfortunately, it is possible that in the coming days we will see additional cases of Ebola." i.e., when more Ebola patients are revealed, it will all be contained.
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From NBC:
And from CBS:
