Ebola outbreak: 50 people being observed for Ebola in U.S.
In Washington, patient admitted to hospital with possible Ebola symptoms ‘in an abundance of caution’
CBC.ca
Oct 03, 2014
After conversations with 100 people who might have been exposed to the Ebola patient in Texas, about 50 are now being observed daily for symptoms of the deadly virus, U.S. health officials said at a news conference today.
Of the 50, about 10 are considered at high risk, while the rest are considered at low risk, Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said Friday.
“Inevitably they have been in close contact with this person,” Dr. Michael Gardam, director of infection, prevention and control at the University Health Network, told CBC of those considered high risk. “They may be people living in the same home. They may be using the same washroom. You would be directly exposed to their body secretions.”
Dr. Beth Bell, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, said putting people in observation does not imply the CDC has a “high level of concern” about most of these people.
Also Friday, Howard University Hospital in Washington admitted a patient with possible symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus “in an abundance of caution,” the hospital said in a statement.
“What we’re seeing in the U.S. is this full court press, absolute over aggression to make sure nothing happens. They will leave no stone unturned so that there is no way this is going to get away on them. If the same thing happened in Toronto, we’d do the same thing,” Gardam said.
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