bola: USA confirms second infected and Chile insulates a citizen with symptoms

The United States confirmed a second case of Ebola on October 11, while in Chile a citizen was isolated in a hospital in Santiago for presenting suspected symptoms of the virus.

Tom Frieden, Head of the federal agency Centers for Disease Control (CDC), reported that the first test performed on a health worker who assisted Thomas Eric Duncanal, first patient diagnosed with Ebola in USA in the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas (Texas), tested positive.

If confirmed the contagion in a second test conducted by the CDC, and whose results will be known in the next few hours, this would be the first transmission of the disease within the country.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health of Chile reported that J.G.F. entered at midday of October 11 the emergency room of the Barros Luco hospital in the south of Santiago. The patient had “fever symptoms” and the first antecedents indicated that he was in Africa between June 9 and October 5, when he returned to the country, via Spain.

However, as emphasized by a statement of Chile, the patient was in Equatorial Guinea, “where there are not officially recorded cases of Ebola”.