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357 people now being monitored for Ebola in New York

Thu, 2014-11-06 09:39 — mike kraft

LOS ANGELES TIMES Nov.5, 2014
By Michael Muskal
The number of people who are being actively monitored for Ebola in New York has tripled to 357 people, none of whom has displayed any symptoms, city health officials announced Wednesday.

The vast majority of those being monitored arrived in New York in the last 21 days from West Africa, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation said in a statement. Those under monitoring are being checked out of “an abundance of caution,” the statement said.

The latest announcement comes as Ohio said it was officially Ebola-free and Texas prepared to end its observation period for the last 27 healthcare workers. The Texas group will complete its 21-day monitoring period on Friday, according to state officials.

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Texas nurse to leave Emory University Hospital free of Ebola virus

Tue, 2014-10-28 11:22 — mike kraft

REUTERS Oct. 28, 2014
By Colleen Jenkins and Doina Chiacu

A Texas nurse who contracted Ebola in the United States will be released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday after being found free of the virus, the hospital said.

An ambulance transporting Amber Joy Vinson arrives at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia October 15, 2014.Credit: Reuters/Tami Chappell

Amber Vinson was one of two nurses at a Dallas hospital who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian visiting Texas who died of Ebola on Oct. 8 and was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States.

She was admitted to Emory's hospital for treatment on Oct. 15. The other nurse, Nina Pham, also was declared virus-free last week and left the Maryland hospital where she had been treated

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Seeking Unity, U.S. Revises Ebola Monitoring Rules

Tue, 2014-10-28 11:02 — mike kraft

UPDATE WITH DETAILS OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA MONITORING (Scroll down)

ROUNDUP OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE QUARANTINE DISPUTE
NEW YORK TIMES Oct. 28, 2014

By SABRINA TAVERNISE, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and HELENE COOPER

The federal government on Monday tried to take charge of an increasingly acrimonious national debate over how to treat people in contact with Ebola patients by announcing guidelines that stopped short of tough measures in New York and New Jersey and were carefully devised, officials said, not to harm the effort to recruit badly needed medical workers to West Africa.

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CDC Chief Announces New Shift In Ebola Protocols

Mon, 2014-10-27 23:18 — mike kraft

UPDATED CDC GUIDANCE FOR MONITORING PERSONS ARIVING FROM EBOLA AREAS.

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NPR Oct. 27, 2014

by Bill Chappell

WASHINGTON--The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leader Dr. Tom Frieden announced changes to the U.S. response to Ebola and the guidance federal agencies are giving to state and local governments.

The new protocol stops short of the mandatory 21-day quarantines that some states have begun requiring. Instead, Frieden said, it relies on individual assessment and close monitoring. He also detailed several categories of risk among both airline passengers and the medical volunteers who he said have been doing "heroic work" in West Africa.

"High risk" individuals, Frieden said, include those who have cared for an Ebola patient and were accidentally poked by a needle or lacked protective gear. Those people, Frieden said, should isolate themselves in their homes and avoid all forms of mass transit and large gatherings.

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Quarantined Ebola Nurse Kaci Hickox to Be Released by New Jersey

Mon, 2014-10-27 10:23 — mike kraft

ABC NEWS Oct. 27, 2014

by Josh Margolin

NEWARK --New Jersey has decided to release a nurse who was fighting an order that forcibly quarantined her after she returned from Africa where she treated Ebola patients.

The release was announced this morning after Kaci Hickox, hired a lawyer to sue over her mandatory 21-day quarantine. Shortly before the decision by the New Jersey Health Department, the nurse said she hopes "this nightmare of mine and the fight that I’ve undertaken is not in vain.”

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As Ebola Spread in Dallas, New York Honed Protocol

Sat, 2014-10-25 21:39 — mike kraft

Health workers at Bellevue Hospital in New York on Oct. 8 demonstrated the gear that staff would wear to treat patients with Ebola. Credit Adrees Latif/Reuters

NEW YORK TIMES Oct. 25, 2014

Detailed description of the differences in the way the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital and New York's Bellevue hospital handled their Ebola patients:.

"When Craig Spencer, a young doctor just back from treating patients with Ebola in Guinea, fell ill with the virus in New York on Thursday, the paramedics who went to get him were dressed in protective suits. He entered Bellevue Hospital through a rear door, far from the busy emergency room, and was taken to a state-of-the-art isolation ward that was locked and guarded.

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Dallas hospital tried to repair reputation after a series of mishaps.

Sun, 2014-10-19 12:44 — mike kraft

Dallas Health Presbyterian Hospital: Two stories on the aftermath of the treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan the first person to die in the U.S. of Ebola and the infection of two nurses.

Dallas hospital tried to repair reputation after a series of mishaps.

WASHINGTON POST Oct. 18, 2014
By Lena H. Sun

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Ebola lapses persisted for days at Dallas hospital

ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct. 18, 2014

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Staff in Texas Ebola Case Is Asked to Avoid Public Spaces

Fri, 2014-10-17 18:33 — mike kraft

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By MANNY FERNANDEZ OCT. 17, 2014

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Nurse Nina Pham To Be Transferred To NIH For Ebola Treatment

Thu, 2014-10-16 14:56 — mike kraft

NPR Oct. 16, 2014

WASHINGTON --A top government health official confirms that Nina Pham, the 26-year-old nurse who became infected with Ebola after treating a patient with the disease at a Dallas hospital, will be transferred to a high-level containment facility at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said in testimony before a House committee that Pham will be admitted to the NIH tonight.

There she will will be given "state of the art care" in a high-level containment facility, he says.

Officials have said Pham's condition is good. Another nurse, Amber Vinson, who also cared for index patient Thomas Eric Duncan has also contracted the disease. Duncan died from the disease last week.

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Lax U.S. Guidelines on Ebola Led to Poor Hospital Training, Experts Say

Thu, 2014-10-16 09:35 — mike kraft

NEW YORK TIMES Oct 15, 2014
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Many American hospitals have improperly trained their staffs to deal with Ebola patients because they were following federal guidelines that were too lax, infection control experts said on Wednesday.

A dummy depicting an Ebola patient was part of a C.D.C. training session for health care workers Wednesday in Anniston, Ala. Credit Erik S. Lesser/European Pressphoto Agency

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