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CDC rethinking Ebola guidelines after criticism they left nurses unprotected
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden (C) speaks with a staff member as he and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci (R) testify before a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, in Washington October 16, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH)
Now that at least two Dallas nurses who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan have themselves been diagnosed with the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing criticism that its initial recommendations to health care workers to protect themselves was inadequate.
The day after Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola, CDC Director Thomas Frieden told the public that it’s “easy” to prevent the spread of the disease if a person uses “gloves and barrier precautions,” because the only way to contract the virus is if an infected person’s body fluids enter the mucous membranes or an open wound of another person. He said health care workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were taking “all of the precautions they need” to prevent infection.
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CDC rethinking Ebola guidelines after criticism they left nurses unprotected
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden (C) speaks with a staff member as he and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci (R) testify before a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, in Washington October 16, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH)
Now that at least two Dallas nurses who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan have themselves been diagnosed with the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing criticism that its initial recommendations to health care workers to protect themselves was inadequate.
The day after Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola, CDC Director Thomas Frieden told the public that it’s “easy” to prevent the spread of the disease if a person uses “gloves and barrier precautions,” because the only way to contract the virus is if an infected person’s body fluids enter the mucous membranes or an open wound of another person. He said health care workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were taking “all of the precautions they need” to prevent infection.
http://news.yahoo.com/cdc-rethinkin...m-they-left-nurses-unprotected-190206817.html
