The Ebola feverthreatens the United States. It was once on American soil that this man, whose identity has not been revealed but who is known to have returned from Liberia, contracted the Ebola virus. He is hospitalized in Dallas, Texas, where he is being kept in isolation. The information was confirmed by a spokesperson for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
At Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, it is explained that the patient was placed in quarantine: “given the symptoms and recent trips made by this patient, we admitted him to the hospital and placed him in quarantine to determine if he has. been infected with the Ebola virus “.
The patient left Liberia on September 19 for the United States to visit relatives. He had no symptoms at the time, says the CDC. The first signs of the disease were reportedly on September 24, and on September 28, the patient was placed in isolation in the Texas hospital. The man’s family has also been placed in quarantine to prevent further spread of the virus.
If American aid workers operating in West Africa have already entered the United States for treatment, the country is dealing with the first case of Ebola infection in the United States.
The latest Ebola report by the World Health Organization estimates that 6,574 patients are infected in five West African countries, including Liberia. 3,093 have already died from the disease. A dramatic assessment that could be below reality according to the CDC, which considered it likely that the number of people affected by the disease is 2.5 times higher. These pessimistic forecasts are based on a rapid rate of contamination which would lead to 1.4 million cases of infection in January 2015 …