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Ebola Today: Dallas Plans to Declare Emergency Following Ebola Spread
By Chelsea Rice
Boston.com Staff
October 16, 2014 12:20 AM
• 8:34 p.m. EST: Dallas to declare citywide disaster. Dallas County Commissioners plan to declare a disaster Thursday over “the potential for widespread or severe damage, injury, loss or threat of life resulting from the Ebola virus,” Dallas’s local NBC affiliate reported. As part of the declaration, the city may restrict travel for health care workers who may have cared for the first Ebola patient.
In the meantime, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where the initial patient with Ebola was treated, is offering a room at its facilities to any of its employees that want to “avoid even the remote possibility of any potential exposure to family, friends and the broader public,” the hospital said in a public statement.
• 7:43 p.m. EST: The CDC knew. Amber Joy Vinson, the 29-year-old who is the second nurse to test positive for the Ebola virus after caring for the first Ebola-stricken patient in the US, reportedly contacted the Centers for Disease Control before boarding a commercial flight Monday because she was suffering from a fever. Government officials did not advise her not to fly because she did not meet the temperature threshold of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, NBC News reports.
CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a press briefing Wednesday that, in retrospect, Vinson “should not have traveled on a commercial aircraft.”
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Dallas leaders prepare to request state disaster declaration
Posted: Oct 15, 2014 7:13 PM EDT Updated: Oct 15, 2014 7:22 PM EDT
By: myfoxdfw.com Staff
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Dallas County leaders are preparing to request a state disaster declaration because of the Ebola crisis.
The commissioners will meet Thursday to request additional state funding and resources.
The cost to the county for the first Ebola patient alone, Thomas Eric Duncan, was more than $1 million.
There have now been three people diagnosed in Dallas.
The latest, 29-year-old Amber Vinson, is a nurse who had extensive contact with Duncan before his death.
She is also the first Dallas patient to be transferred out of state for specialized treatment.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26798025/dallas-leaders-prepare-to-request-state-disaster-declaration
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Disaster Declaration Planned for Ebola Fight
Those who cared for Thomas Duncan ordered to restrict travel methods
Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014 • Updated at 11:06 PM CDT
Dallas County Commissioners will hold a special meeting Thursday to declare a disaster over "the potential for widespread or severe damage, injury, loss or threat of life resulting from the Ebola virus."
The declaration could help officials impose new travel restrictions on health care workers who may have cared for the first Dallas Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Dallas County Medical Director Dr. Christopher Perkins will sign a control order that will follow the minimum guidelines outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blocking those being monitored for Ebola symptoms from using public transportation, including buses and airliners.
It comes after revelations Wednesday that the third Dallas Ebola patient, Amber Vinson, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, returned from a trip to Ohio with a slight fever after caring for Duncan, who died at the hospital last week.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/D...l-of-Ebola-Health-Care-Workers-279336932.html
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Dallas County Considers Declaring State of Disaster From Ebola
By Romy Varghese October 15, 2014
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Dallas County Commissioners will vote tomorrow to declare a local state of disaster caused by the Ebola virus.
The county “has the potential to suffer widespread or severe damage, injury, loss or threat of life resulting from the Ebola virus,” according to a proposed draft of the declaration.
The county has been preparing contingencies since a Liberian visitor to the U.S. died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Oct. 8. Two health-care workers involved with the man’s care have tested positive for the virus.
Approval of the proposed order would implement the county’s emergency management system, according to the declaration.
To contact the reporter on this story: Romy Varghese in Dallas at
rvarghese8@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Pete Young at
pyoung13@bloomberg.net
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...siders-declaring-state-of-disaster-from-ebola
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