Ebola In America

Ebola has arrived in America. A patient in Texas has been diagnosed with the deadly disease, the CDC confirmed on Tuesday.

It is the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States. That’s an important distinction because unlike the medical workers who contracted Ebola in Africa and were flown back to the United States for treatment the new Ebola patient could’ve been circulating in the general U.S. population, potentially spreading the disease.

However, experts have stressed that Ebola does not transmit easily, but instead requires “intimate” contact with someone who’s infected. “Ebola poses no substantial risk to the U.S. general population,”  Central for Disease control in America Claimed.

The U.S. patient diagnosed with Ebola is a man who was traveling in Liberia, and he started showing Ebola symptoms four days after returning. The man has been placed in “strict isolation,” according to a statement from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. In a briefing on Tuesday, CDC officials stressed that because the man was not symptomatic with Ebola while flying, there was “zero risk” of transmission for other passengers on the plane. They also vowed that public health officials “would stop [Ebola] in its tracks in the U.S.”