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| US Hunts Contacts of Seriously Ill |
| US Hunts Contacts of Seriously Ill Ebola Patient
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-October-2014
7:31:3 AM |
| US health officials scoured the Dallas area Wednesday for people -- including schoolchildren -- who came in contact with a Liberian man diagnosed with Ebola, as it emerged a hospital mix-up saw him initially turned away.
More people may have been exposed to the contagious man after he first sought treatment on September 25 because an apparent miscommunication among staff resulted in his release back into the community for several days, Texas hospital officials admitted.
Ebola is spread through close contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, and can only be transmitted when a patient is showing symptoms like fever, aches, bleeding, vomiting or diarrhea.
The man -- the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola on US soil -- flew from Liberia, the hardest-hit nation in West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak, and arrived in Texas September 20 to visit family. He fell ill on September 24.
He went to the hospital the next day but was sent home because the medical team "felt clinically it was a low-grade common viral disease," said Mark Lester, executive vice president of Texas Health Resources.
"He volunteered that he had traveled from Africa in response to the nurse operating the checklist and asking that question," Lester added.
"Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team."
A hospital statement issued later said his initial symptoms on September 25 were "low-grade fever and abdominal pain," and that "his condition did not warrant admission."
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