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E coli will soon be joining E bola.

 

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Deputy Who Entered Ebola Victim’s Apartment Hospitalized...

Texas Deputy Who Fell Ill Tests Negative For Ebola
(October 9, 2014) Sheriff's Deputy Mike Monnig, who entered the apartment in Dallas where the first U.S. Ebola patient stayed and who was “hospitalized out of an abundance of caution" Wednesday after falling ill, tested negative for the deadly virus, state health officials said Thursday.

Monnig went to a health clinic Wednesday in Frisco complaining of illness just days after he and other Dallas County deputies went inside the Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, was staying. Monnig did not have contact with Duncan, but did see some of Duncan's family members who are now in isolation. Duncan died Wednesday of the disease.

The Texas Department of State Health Services released a statement Thursday that said a specimen from Monnig provided by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital tested negative. Hospital officials said Thursday that Monnig's condition was good with no signs of fever or other symptoms related to the disease.

The sheriff’s deputy was taken to a Dallas hospital by ambulance Wednesday.

Meanwhile Thursday, officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said Duncan received the experimental antiviral drug brincidofovir as soon as his condition warranted, in the process becoming the first Ebola patient to receive it. None of the experimental drug ZMapp given two American medical missionaries stricken in Liberia was available, and serum transfusions from Ebola survivors weren't administered because Duncan's blood type wasn't compatible, officials said. Duncan had asked that he not be resuscitated if his heart stopped, officials said.

Texas Deputy Who Fell Ill Tests Negative For Ebola

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Hospital: No signs of Ebola in Dallas-area officer
(October 9, 2014) — The Dallas hospital treating a sheriff's deputy who went into the apartment where an Ebola victim was living says the deputy is showing no signs that he's also infected.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a statement Thursday that Michael Monnig remains in good condition one day after he was taken by ambulance to the hospital. The hospital says Monnig does not have a fever, vomiting or diarrhea. Results of further testing are expected later Thursday.

Monnig was one of the deputies who went inside the Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan was staying. Monnig did not have contact with Duncan, but did see some of Duncan's family members now in isolation. Duncan died Wednesday. Officials say none of Duncan's relatives have shown any signs that they are infected.

Hospital No signs of Ebola in Dallas-area officer