A spokeswoman has confirmed that an American nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a Liberian patient in Texas has been declared free of the virus.
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Ebola is caused by a virus via direct contact with body fluids or infected blood. Scientists have identified five types of Ebola or Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus.
Ebola is caused by a virus via direct contact with body fluids or infected blood. Scientists have identified five types of Ebola or Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus.
Her diagnosis was announced October 12. She was initially hospitalized in Dallas at the hospital where she worked, but was transferred to a specialized facility, the NIH Clinical Center for treatment, on October 16.
Her colleague, nurse Amber Vinson, was also infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on October 8.
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Both women worked in the intensive care unit at the hospital and had extensive contact with Duncan when he sick, though it remains unknown exactly how they were infected.
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Ebola is spread though close contact with the sweat, vomit, blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person.
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A total of nine people with Ebola have been cared for in the United States. Only the Liberian patient has died of the virus here.
Source-AFP
