Texas healthcare worker is diagnosed with Ebola
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Texas healthcare worker is diagnosed with Ebola.
Ebola disease has been diagnosed in a health worker in Texas, state health officials said Sunday 12 October. The worker, who press reports say is a nurse, took care of a Liberian man who fell ill shortly after arriving in the United States and later died of Ebola disease. The worker is the second person to contract the disease outside Africa. The first, Teresa Romero, is a Spanish nurse who car...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6200