Via The Dallas Morning News: Hospital workers who cared for country’s first Ebola patient asked to limit movement. Click through to see the letter to health workers. Excerpt:
State officials have asked Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas workers who cared for the country’s first Ebola patient to limit their public interactions and avoid commercial travel.
Two Presbyterian nurses have been diagnosed with the deadly virus after Thomas Eric Duncan of Liberia died last week in the hospital. Nina Pham, 26, and Amber Joy Vinson, 29, both cared for Duncan.
Pham was transferred Thursday to the National Institutes of Health clinic in Bethesda, Md. Vinson was transferred Wednesday to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Both hospitals have specialized isolation units.
Dallas leaders on Thursday declined to declare a local emergency in response to the Ebola virus. They moved to have workers sign agreements saying they will avoid public places and public transportation. The Texas Department of State Health Services sent out a letter detailing the requirements for health care workers who may have been exposed to the disease, as Dallas officials requested.
The health care workers are asked to limit their movements for 21 days after their last exposure to an Ebola patient. Presbyterian officials have said 75 health care workers possibly came into contact with the virus. They have not said how Pham or Vinson possibly contracted the disease.
