New Dallas Ebola Case Was Isolated ‘Within 90 Minutes’: Officials
Maggie Fox and Jason Cumming
NBCNews.com
October 15th 2014
A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who tested positive for Ebola was isolated within “90 minutes” of her temperature being taken, officials said Wednesday.
The new case suggests measures at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were unable to prevent the virus from spreading beyond a very sick Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died there last week.
The worker developed a fever on Tuesday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins told a news conference.
“Within 90 minutes of taking her temperature she was isolated in the hospital,” Jenkins said early Wednesday. “And we hope and pray that, like Nina, she will get on a good track.” Over the weekend 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham was diagnosed with the virus.
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