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Dallas Sheriff’s Official Tests Negative for Ebola
By MANNY FERNANDEZ, DAVE PHILIPPS and TIMOTHY WILLIAMSOCT. 9, 2014
DALLAS — A sheriff’s sergeant who was hospitalized here out of concern that he might have been exposed to the Ebola virus has not been infected, a Texas health agency said Thursday.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement that the test on the sergeant, Michael W. Monnig, had come back negative for the virus.
Sergeant Monnig was taken to the hospital Wednesday after going to an urgent-care center outside Dallas with stomach pain. He told health care workers there that he had been in the apartment where Thomas E. Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola on Wednesday, had been staying.
None of the 48 other people who are being monitored for the disease after having had some contact with Mr. Duncan has shown any sign of the disease, officials said.
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Also Thursday, Britain announced that it planned to follow the lead of the United States and introduce measures at airports and at an international rail terminal to screen passengers from countries affected by the Ebola virus.
Continue reading the main story
Graphic: Ebola Facts: How Many Patients Are Being Treated Outside of West Africa?
“Enhanced screening will initially be implemented at London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar terminals,” Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said in a statement, referring to London’s international rail link with continental Europe.
The United States on Wednesday said it would begin requiring temperature checks at five major American airports for people arriving from the three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebola virus — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The measures will go into effect on Saturday at Kennedy International Airport in New York, which receives about 43 percent of the people who fly to the United States from the three nations.
Screenings will begin next week at Washington Dulles International, which gets 22 percent of such travelers, and at Newark Liberty International, O’Hare International in Chicago and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta.
After a passport check, airport workers will lead travelers to a special area and point a thermometer at their foreheads. The workers will also ask questions. Travelers with a fever will be taken to a quarantine area in the airports and be evaluated by an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It will be up to local health departments whether to place them in quarantine.
The death of Mr. Duncan, 42, at the center of a widening public health concern, renewed questions about whether a delay in receiving treatment could have played a role in his death. Mr. Duncan went to a hospital’s emergency room on Sept. 25, but was not admitted. He returned three days later after his condition worsened.
“I trust a thorough examination will take place regarding all aspects of his care,” Louise Troh, Mr. Duncan’s fiancée, said in a statement Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday that officials there were considering investigating the delay in treating Mr. Duncan for Ebola, including the hospital’s compliance with state health and safety laws and regulations. But she added that the agency’s “top focus right now is the contact investigation and monitoring.”
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C., told reporters Wednesday that although Ebola is fatal in a high proportion of patients, it is important for the disease to be diagnosed early.
“The earlier someone is diagnosed, the more likely they will be to survive,” Dr. Frieden said.
He declined to speculate on whether the delay had contributed to Mr. Duncan’s death. But agency officials have said generally that basic interventions — including intravenous fluids and electrolytes, and maintaining blood pressure — can significantly improve Ebola patients’ chances of survival.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/u...html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
Dallas Sheriff’s Official Tests Negative for Ebola
By MANNY FERNANDEZ, DAVE PHILIPPS and TIMOTHY WILLIAMSOCT. 9, 2014
DALLAS — A sheriff’s sergeant who was hospitalized here out of concern that he might have been exposed to the Ebola virus has not been infected, a Texas health agency said Thursday.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement that the test on the sergeant, Michael W. Monnig, had come back negative for the virus.
Sergeant Monnig was taken to the hospital Wednesday after going to an urgent-care center outside Dallas with stomach pain. He told health care workers there that he had been in the apartment where Thomas E. Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola on Wednesday, had been staying.
None of the 48 other people who are being monitored for the disease after having had some contact with Mr. Duncan has shown any sign of the disease, officials said.
Continue reading the main story
RELATED COVERAGE
Drills Are Over for Nebraska Team Treating EbolaOCT. 9, 2014
Death of Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas Fuels Alarm Over EbolaOCT. 8, 2014
Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola OCT. 8, 2014
Also Thursday, Britain announced that it planned to follow the lead of the United States and introduce measures at airports and at an international rail terminal to screen passengers from countries affected by the Ebola virus.
Continue reading the main story
Graphic: Ebola Facts: How Many Patients Are Being Treated Outside of West Africa?
“Enhanced screening will initially be implemented at London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar terminals,” Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said in a statement, referring to London’s international rail link with continental Europe.
The United States on Wednesday said it would begin requiring temperature checks at five major American airports for people arriving from the three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebola virus — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The measures will go into effect on Saturday at Kennedy International Airport in New York, which receives about 43 percent of the people who fly to the United States from the three nations.
Screenings will begin next week at Washington Dulles International, which gets 22 percent of such travelers, and at Newark Liberty International, O’Hare International in Chicago and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta.
After a passport check, airport workers will lead travelers to a special area and point a thermometer at their foreheads. The workers will also ask questions. Travelers with a fever will be taken to a quarantine area in the airports and be evaluated by an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It will be up to local health departments whether to place them in quarantine.
The death of Mr. Duncan, 42, at the center of a widening public health concern, renewed questions about whether a delay in receiving treatment could have played a role in his death. Mr. Duncan went to a hospital’s emergency room on Sept. 25, but was not admitted. He returned three days later after his condition worsened.
“I trust a thorough examination will take place regarding all aspects of his care,” Louise Troh, Mr. Duncan’s fiancée, said in a statement Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday that officials there were considering investigating the delay in treating Mr. Duncan for Ebola, including the hospital’s compliance with state health and safety laws and regulations. But she added that the agency’s “top focus right now is the contact investigation and monitoring.”
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the C.D.C., told reporters Wednesday that although Ebola is fatal in a high proportion of patients, it is important for the disease to be diagnosed early.
“The earlier someone is diagnosed, the more likely they will be to survive,” Dr. Frieden said.
He declined to speculate on whether the delay had contributed to Mr. Duncan’s death. But agency officials have said generally that basic interventions — including intravenous fluids and electrolytes, and maintaining blood pressure — can significantly improve Ebola patients’ chances of survival.
