Recent concerns about Ebola exposures have renewed attention on the 2014 West Africa outbreak, which led to the first known Ebola transmission cases in the United States. In September 2014, Liberian traveler Thomas Eric Duncan became ill while visiting family in Texas and was hospitalized in Dallas, where two nurses who cared for him later contracted the virus. Both healthcare workers recovered after specialized treatment, while Duncan died from the illness. Around the same time, a New York physician who had treated Ebola patients in Guinea also developed the disease after returning to the United States but later recovered following treatment. The cases prompted major changes in U.S. hospital preparedness, infection control protocols, and public health response efforts. Continue reading at MedPage Today
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