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The health worker reported a fever on Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the hospital
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London: A second health-care worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at US hospitals aren’t strong enough.
The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported a fever on Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the hospital, the Texas department of state health services said in a statement on Wednesday. The person, who wasn’t identified, cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died last week from Ebola.
“Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored," the department said. The type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus, according to the statement.
The preliminary Ebola test was run late Tuesday at the state public health laboratory in Austin, and results were received at about midnight. Bloomberg
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