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US takes measures against Ebola contagion

The first case confirmed in Texas

WASHINGTON. The President of the United States, Barak Obama, was updated both on the efforts that are being taken to try to "reduce the risk of additional cases" of Ebola after being informed yesterday of the first case of the disease diagnosed in the United States, indicated the White House and eight press communiqué.

Obama spoke with Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who revealed yesterday the news that a patient hospitalized in the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital (Texas) was diagnosed with Ebola.

"The President and Director Frieden spoke of the strict protocols under which the patient is being treated, as well as the current efforts to trace the contacts of the patients in order to reduce the risk of additional cases," said the official note.

In this conversation, Frieden pointed out also that they "the CDC is prepared for a case of Ebola in the US, and we have the infrastructures to respond in a safe and effective manner."

Previously the director indicated during a press conference that apparently, the patient traveled from Liberia, one of the African countries most affected by the Ebola to Texas on 19 September "in order to visit relatives" who live in the United States and showed symptoms five days later, when he was hospitalized at Dallas Presbyterian.

"The persons who travel on the airplane with this person were not at risk since he did not present symptoms until four days after arriving," indicated the CDC director.

The patient is currently hospitalized in an isolation ward at the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital (Texas), after it was suspected that he had contracted the disease from the symptoms that he presented and his recent trip to Liberia.

This is the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, although for more have been treated.

Three of them have recovered completely, and the other was transferred to the Emory University Hospital more than two weeks ago, and as of now they do not know details of his condition.

So far, the virus has caused the death of more than 3000 persons in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Guinea, and sending out, according to official numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO).