CDC to Send Team to Dallas to Assist with Control, Monitoring After Second Ebola Case
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Credit: James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(DALLAS) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that it would deploy a second team to Dallas to help assist the staff at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in infection control and monitoring of those staff members who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who died last week.
According to a CDC press release, the nine-person team will include experts in infection control, Ebola and infectious diseases, laboratory science, personal protective equipment and hospital epidemiology. The CDC notes that several individuals on the team were involved in either Ebola outbreaks in West Africa or infectious disease outbreaks at other U.S. hospitals.
The deployment comes on the same day that Nina Pham was identified as the second Ebola patient in Dallas. Pham, a nurse, was infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
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