DALLAS – A second Texas nurse who
treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has become infected with the
deadly disease, health officials announced early Wednesday.
Officials said the unidentified
woman reported a fever on Tuesday and was immediately isolated at Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
“Health officials have
interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or
potential exposures, and those people will be monitored,” the Texas
Department of State Health Services said in a written statement. “The
type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the
potential they were exposed to the virus.”
The positive test for Ebola was determined about midnight Tuesday at a state laboratory in Austin. Results from a second testing by the CDC in Atlanta are expected later Wednesday.
On Wednesday morning, a
hazardous materials team was decontaminating the nurse’s Dallas
apartment in a popular community not far from the hospital. City
officials said the woman lived alone and had no pets.
The latest nurse becomes the
third person to be diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas since Sept. 30. City
officials addressed the public early Wednesday.
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