Ebola: Health care worker tests positive at Texas hospital


OCTOBER 12, 2014
BY BBC

A Texas health care worker who treated US
Ebola victim Thomas Duncan before his
death has tested positive for the virus,
officials say.
“We knew a second case could be a reality,
and we’ve been preparing for this
possibility,” said Dr David Lakey,
commissioner of the Texas Department of
State Health Services.
Duncan, who caught the virus in his native
Liberia, died at a Dallas hospital on
Wednesday.
The health worker has not been named.
Duncan tested positive in Dallas on
September 30, 10 days after arriving on a
flight from Monrovia via Brussels.
He became ill a few days after arriving in the
US, but after going to hospital and telling
medical staff he had been in Liberia, he was
sent home with antibiotics.