A deadly virus that quickly spreads around the world, reached the United States. In Dallas registered 1st of sickness and fever.
Experts of the Center for disease control and prevention approved 1 case of Ebola infection in areas of America. Employees of the Texas Presbyterian hospital announced that the patient, whose name was not released, was placed in the infectious diseases ward.
The representative of the stronger sex was taken to the hospital in one of the hospitals of Dallas with signs, distinctive for terrible diseases. In the process of litigation and medical examination, doctors found that he was really sick with Ebola. It turned out that a representative of the stronger sex has recently returned from Liberia, where for several months rampant epidemic.
Doctors emphasize that we are talking about the first case, when investirovanie virus diagnosed in a patient already later he returned to the area of the States. According to the head of the Center for disease control and prevention Thomas Frieden, before leaving Liberia and immediately after returning to the U.S. representative of the stronger sex felt good, informs RIA Novosti. Distinctive signs appeared at it for a few days after that.
Doctors report that for security purposes, the representative of the stronger sex are placed in the insulator. The management of the hospital takes care of all urgent measures to protect the doctors, staff and other patients from possible infection. In addition, it is planned to find out who is infected could communicate after returning from West Africa. All who theoretically could become infected as the result of communication with the case, will be placed in quarantine for 21 days - specifically during this period manifested 1st signs.
It is told that President Barack Obama has already informed the first case of the disease with fever in the United States. "Obama was informed by the head of the Center for disease control and prevention United States medic Tom Frieden about not so long ago diagnosed case of Ebola fever in the metropolis of Dallas, Texas," said the public relations division, state leaders.
The world health organization (who) informs about more than 3 thousands of victims of Ebola fever in West Africa, typically in Liberia. The disease is transmitted in consequence of contact with the blood or secretions of an infected person. Around the world there is no vaccine for it.
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