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https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/ Second Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has tested positive for the disease. The health care worker reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the hospital. Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored. The type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus. The Texas Department of State Health Services also continues to monitor people who came into contact with the first two Ebola patients diagnosed in the state. The first was a man who had recently arrived in the U.S. from Liberia, where there is an ongoing Ebola outbreak. The second was another health care worker who provided care for the initial patient while he was in the hospital. Ebola is a severe and often fatal illness.​ Ebola is spread through direct contact with blood, secretions or other bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects, such as needles. It cannot be spread simply by being near someone who is infected. People only become contagious after they begin to have symptoms. More Ebola information.

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https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/

[DB]

I love how they say people only become contagious after they have symptoms... So it’s binary... Ether you’re contagious or you’re not at that magic threshold point...

Never mind the virus is replicating the entire time and you only show symptoms when it has replicated enough to cause them.

You’re body fluids still likely have the virus in them before it has replicated enough to take you down. I would guess it really maters what kind of contact you have before symptoms are present that matters...

[Blue Highway]

Paging Dr. Brantly, we need another pint of your blood for a new Ebola victim...

[Mygirlsmom]

I would assume the 70 or so people that were reported to have taken care of Thomas Duncan (including the two who have now tested positive) have continued to care for other patients in this hospital?

And what about the immediate family? No one has heard word one of their conditions.

What a disaster. Prayers for all involved.

[Moonman62]

It cannot be spread simply by being near someone who is infected. People only become contagious after they begin to have symptoms.

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That’s what they want us to believe.

[expat2]

It cannot be spread simply by being near someone who is infected.

Unless you are near an Ebola sufferer who is projectile-vomiting, typically quite likely to be the case.