The event that some saw as inevitable has now come to pass: the United States’ first case of ebola.
“A hospital in Dallas that diagnosed America’s first-ever known Ebola case also failed to recognize the patient’s Ebola potential when he first sought care, missing an opportunity to isolate him when he was already contagious.
“The patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, had been visiting the US from Liberia. He left Monrovia on September 19 and traveled through Brussels, arriving in the US on September 20.
“He had no symptoms when he was departing Liberia or entering the US, which means he wouldn’t have been infectious at the time.”
Read more: Vox.com
