New Details About Ebola In Dallas Revealed In CDC Report

HuffPo ^ | 11/14/2014 3:47PM EST on LiveScience | Rachael Rettner

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More details of exactly what happened in Dallas when three people there -- a Liberian man and two nurses -- were infected with Ebola are revealed today (Nov. 14) in a new report.

One of the new details is that 12 people who had contact with one or more of the Ebola patients were tested for the virus during their 21-day monitoring periods, because these 12 individuals developed a fever or other symptoms that can occur with the disease, according to the report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, none these people actually had Ebola.

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New Details About Ebola In Dallas Revealed In CDC Report

More details of exactly what happened in Dallas when three people there -- a Liberian man and two nurses -- were infected with Ebola are revealed today (Nov. 14) in a new report. One of the new details is that 12 people who had contact with one or more of the Ebola patients were tested for the virus during their 21-day monitoring periods, because these 12 individuals developed a fever or other symptoms that can occur with the disease, according to the report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, none these people actually had Ebola.

In addition, of the nearly 150 Dallas health care workers who were monitored daily for symptoms of Ebola, 20 volunteered to quarantine themselves for the three-week monitoring period, the report said. The report also gave the age of the first Ebola patient in Dallas — Thomas Eric Duncan — as 45. Previous reports had given his age as 42.

The age given in the new report came from Duncan's medical records, after officials determined this was the most reliable source of information about his age, a CDC representative confirmed to Live Science. [Where Did Ebola Come From?]

Duncan traveled from Liberia to the United States in September to visit his family. But he became ill with a fever and abdominal pain, and was treated in the emergency department of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 25. He was released, because he was not then suspected of having Ebola. But he returned to the hospital three days later, when he tested positive for the virus. He was treated in an isolation unit at the hospital, but died Oct. 8.

Health officials originally monitored 48 people in Dallas who had contact with Duncan, including 17 people in the community, 10 people who rode in the same ambulance as Duncan before it was cleaned, and 21 health care workers who did not wear adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) when they had contact with Duncan after he first arrived at the hospital on Sept. 25.

But after two nurses — Nina Pham and Amber Vinson — tested positive for Ebola, the number of people monitored was expanded to include 147 health care workers who had contact with Duncan, even if they were wearing PPE.

Pham and Vinson did use PPE in their care of Duncan, the report said.

By Nov. 7, everyone in Dallas who was being monitored for Ebola symptoms had passed through the 21-day monitoring period.

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