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Ebola Scare in US: Suspected Patients Tested Amid Outbreak Fears
United States: Two patients suspected of Ebola traveled from a New York City urgent care facility to a hospital medical center for testing because they showed signs of infection with the fatal disease.
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According to DailyMail reports, the New York City Fire Department reported that the patients left City MD on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue at 11:16 a.m. ET on Sunday.
Emergency teams with face protection and gloves transported sick patients between vehicles under rainy conditions on Upper East Side streets.
The government conducted an evaluation because patients arrived from Uganda during an active Ebola outbreak zone, the New York reported.
FDNY transported the patients to Bellevue Hospital, which received an examination from Department of Health personnel, which confirmed their lack of Ebola infection.
According to acting NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Michelle Morris, “The two patients that sought services at CityMD on February 16 at 153 East 125 Street do not have Ebola,” the Daily Mail reported.
Moreover, “One patient is being taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue for routine testing and treatment. The NYC Health Department is in close communication with FDNY, CityMD, and NYC Health + Hospitals,” Morris added.
Research from the Post says that the sickness causing the patients’ infections might be norovirus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directed physicians to perform Ebola assessments on American patients to confirm if the disease has entered domestic territory.
“For the protection of patient privacy, we do not have any comment,’ City MD stated.
“There is no report of any Ebola virus or exposure, consistent with what the DOH confirmed as well,” he continued.
What more are the experts stating?
The Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory released its notice when Ebola outbreak confirmation occurred in Uganda on January 30.
The Ebola virus claimed the life of a Mulago National Referral Hospital nurse who worked at Kampala’s central hospital on January 29 when she reached 32 years old.
The Ugandan nurse experienced multiple symptoms, including high fever combined with chest pain, which led to difficulties in breathing while bleeding occurred from various body points during the several days before his death, Daily Mail reported.
The deceased received medical care at three different health facilities, starting with Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, followed by Saidina Abubakar Islamic Hospital in Matugga Wakiso District, then continuing at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in Mbale City, but he failed to get better.
Center for Disease Control reports that the deceased Ugandan nurse visited both modern medical facilities and traditional healing practitioners. Tests on dead tissue samples through post-mortem examinations confirmed the presence of Ebola virus to the agency.
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Measles Crisis Spreads: 48 New Cases in Three Weeks!
United States: Measles cases in the South Plains of Texas continue to rise exponentially through a spread that doubled its size over a short seven-day period.
The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed at least 48 patients had new measles symptoms in the last three weeks.
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Medical staff hospitalized at least fourteen persons in their facilities because of the disease. The Texas Department of State Health Services received previous reporting about this Texas outbreak from Fox News Digital.
The Texas Department of State Health Services issued a warning that aged schoolchildren across Gaines County form the bulk of patients in this measles outbreak.
According to health officials, “Due to the highly contagious nature of this disease, additional cases are likely to occur in Gaines County and the surrounding communities,” Fox News reported.
The spread of new cases has occurred throughout Lynn, together with Terry and Yoakum counties.
Why is it spreading?
All patients involved were unvaccinated, and their vaccination status remained unknown based on the information provided by DSHS.
The outbreak is under investigation. These recent cases have arisen after health agencies declared the “elimination” of the disease in 2000.
The respiratory illness called Measles spreads rapidly from person to person and creates life-threatening conditions, as stated by the DSHS.
The DSHS indicates the virus spreads through two main routes: transmission caused by droplet contact and airborne transmission from breathing or coughing and sneezing of infected people.
Infectious virus particles can stay in the air for a period of two hours, following when someone with an infection departs from space.
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The disease onset takes place seven to fourteen days after infection and produces a combination of symptoms such as elevated body temperature alongside coughing and nasal discharge together with reddened tear ducts, Fox News reported.
Flat red spots emerge on the face before they expand their circulation to reach the neck and ultimately reach all other areas of the body.
The transmission risk occurs mostly within eight days, starting from four days before the rash emergence and continuing four days afterward.
Anyone who thinks they have got measles or has measles exposure should stay isolated and contact their doctor before seeking medical testing according to the DSHS guidelines.
Medical authorities confirm that prevention against illness occurs through two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
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Measles Crisis Spreads: 48 New Cases in Three Weeks!
