The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Monday confirmed that the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States at a hospital in Dallas. But they say there's "zero risk" he infected anyone else on his flight here and they're confident the virus will not spread widely in the United States.
Four other people with Ebola — all medical volunteers working in West Africa — have been evacuated to the U.S. for treatment, but this is the first case in a traveler. Three of them have recovered.
Texas Health Presbyterian said in a statement late Monday that it had admitted a patient into strict isolation "based on the patient’s symptoms and recent travel history." Officials said the patient was isolated soon after he came to the hospital.
The patient was said to be visiting family in the United States and left Liberia on an overnight flight Sept. 19th. Frieden says there's no chance he could have infected anybody on the flight because he would have been checked for fever before leaving Liberia and also when he arrived in the United States. A cull from www.nbcnews.com.
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