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                  Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola

   by VOA News

   Officials in the southern U.S. state of Texas say a health worker who
   provided care for an Ebola patient who died last week has tested
   positive for the virus.

   In a statement Sunday, the state's health department said the worker
   reported a low-grade fever Friday night before a positive preliminary
   test.  The [1]Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will conduct
   another test to confirm the infection.

   The worker was part of the team at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
   where the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United States,
   Thomas Duncan, died last week.

   As with Duncan's case, health officials are working to identify and
   monitor anyone who may have been exposed after the health worker began
   showing symptoms.

   U.S. health officials have been telling Americans for weeks that the
   U.S. health care system knows how to contain the spread of the virus
   that has killed thousands of people in West Africa.

   The new case comes as several U.S. airports begin a stepped-up program
   to screen passengers arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

   On Saturday, authorities at New York's JFK International Airport
   started taking passengers' temperatures and asking them questions to
   determine whether they may have come into contact with an infected
   person.

   The enhanced screening will expand to four other airports Thursday,
   including the Newark airport in New Jersey, Washington's Dulles
   Airport, Chicago's O'Hare and the international airport in Atlanta.

   Together, the five airports receive more than 90 percent of all
   travelers entering the United States from the three worst-affected West
   African countries.

   Britain is also introducing Ebola screening at certain airports and
   train stations.

   The [2]World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
   has killed at least 4,000 people with about 8,400 reported cases.

   Outside of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, eight people died in
   Nigeria and one patient died in the United States.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
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References

   1. http://www.cdc.gov/
   2. http://www.who.int/en/
   3. http://www.voanews.com/content/texas-health-worker-tests-positive-for-ebola/2481099.html