In the state of Texas, two nurses have already caught Ebola. They became infected after treating two patients, who have since died. Now they have been quarantined in Dallas and the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
“I felt perfectly safe”
As he explained yesterday after a meeting with the head of the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. President Barack Obama, 53, nevertheless estimates that the danger of a widespread Ebola outbreak in his country is very low. To further reinforce this estimation, he told the following anecdote at the press conference: “I shook hands with, hugged and kissed a couple of the nurses at Emory because of the valiant work they did in treating the patients.” The nurses are reported to have followed the correct protocol. They knew what they were doing. The president added: “I felt perfectly safe doing so.”
Likewise, Obama announced his government would handle new cases of the disease more “aggressively.” Effective immediately, a rapid response team will ensure that even those hospitals which are ill-equipped to handle Ebola cases can treat patients properly. “We are taking this very seriously at the highest level of government,” the president added.
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How the second infected nurse, Amber Vinson, 29, was handled is cause for further concern. Shortly before developing her first symptoms, she was a passenger on a domestic flight between Cleveland and Dallas — with 132 other people on board. These people are to be tracked down as a precautionary measure.
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