US EBOLA PATIENT TOLD STAFF OF LIBERIA TRAVEL BUT WAS ALLOWED TO LEAVE HOSPITAL (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, October 01, 2014, 15:56

The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola outside Africa told medical staff that he had recently travelled from west Africa, but was not admitted to hospital until he returned two days later, health officials in Texas said on Wednesday.

Thomas Eric Duncan told a nurse at a Dallas emergency room that he had recently visited Liberia, which has been ravaged by the Ebola outbreak. But an executive at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital told a news conference that the information was not widely enough shared with the medical team treating Duncan, and he was diagnosed as suffering from a “low-grade common viral disease”.

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