After weeks of concern, worry and then near panic over the deadly Ebola virus, there is finally some good news that will (hopefully) relieve some of the lingering fear of a broader epidemic.
Missoula's St. Patrick Hospital issued a press release on Friday, outlining protocols for the possibility of receiving a patient with Ebola, or another serious infectious disease.
Missoula is one in four locations across the country that are officially prepared to handle a case of Ebola, however, hundreds in the area have made frantic calls to hospitals and emergency services, worried about the issue.
The first Dallas nurse to have contracted Ebola after treating an infected Liberian man is scheduled to be moved to a specialized medical facility in Maryland.
Though #Nigeria has no current case of #Ebola,@NavarroCollege is denying admission to Nigerians. pic.twitter.com/aRekeGRVRu cc @nytimes
— Idris Ayodeji Bello (@idrisayobello) October 12, 2014
Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas is making headlines, but they're not pleasant ones.
A second health worker at Dallas Presbyterian Health Hospital was diagnosed with Ebola on Wednesday morning. Apparently the nurse had traveled by air from Cleveland on Monday.
Missoula’s St Patrick hospital is one of four facilities nationwide with rooms designed specifically to care for Ebola patients, but even if someone in Missoula suspected they had the disease, it could be quite a while before the public found out.
DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials have confirmed that a health care worker who provided hospital care for an Ebola patient in Dallas has tested positive for the virus.
The Liberian man who was diagnosed last month with Ebola, the first such case in the United States, died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.