Second US worker has Ebola

A second US health care worker has tested positive for Ebola, Texas officials have revealed.

Wed, 15 Oct, 2014 - 11:11

A second US health care worker has tested positive for Ebola, Texas officials have revealed.

This comes after a nurse at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Thomas Duncan – the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US after flying in from Liberia – tested positive for the virus on Sunday.

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Courts Ebola virus Place: US Place: Texas Place: Liberia Place: United States Place: Austin, Texas Place: Atlanta Person: Thomas Duncan Person: Nina Pham Person: Duncan Organisation: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Organisation: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

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