Ebola fears grow as CDC says it will screen larger group of travelers
By Mark Berman
WashingtonPost.com
October 17, 2014
The impact of two Ebola diagnoses in the United States this week continued to reverberate across the country and beyond, causing concern for another group of travelers who may have encountered a person with Ebola before she was isolated.
Hospital workers who entered the room of an Ebola patient in Texas have been asked not to travel commercially, which public health officials had said would be a requirement going forward. They have also been asked not to go to public places like grocery stores or theaters during the 21-day period following their last contact with the patient, according to a letter from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
As a sign of the growing anxiety over the number of people exposed to Ebola recently, particularly after it was revealed that a health-care worker had traveled on a commercial flight a day before her diagnosis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Thursday that another large group of people had to be contacted and screened.
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