A day after a man in a Dallas hospital was diagnosed with Ebola, public health officials said it's likely that more people will come to the United States carrying the deadly virus.
"I would expect that so long as there is such a widespread epidemic in Africa, that even with good screening at the airports, etc., it's possible there will be additional cases," said Jesse L. Goodman, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University Medical Center. "This is a global public health emergency, and I think this indicates that."
The virus, which has sickened at least 7,178 people and killed 3,338 in West Africa, hadn't been diagnosed outside the region until Tuesday.
The man who traveled from Liberia to Dallas on Sept. 19-20 was incubating the disease, but he showed no symptoms while he was traveling — so his fellow travelers are not at risk.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/
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