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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2014
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First US Ebola case confirmed in Dallas
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DALLAS — The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. was confirmed Tuesday in a patient who recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas—a sign of the far-reaching impact of the out-of-control epidemic in West Africa.
A police car drives past the entrance to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Tuesday. A patient in the hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in strict isolation with test results pending, hospital officials said Monday.
The unidentified man was critically ill and has been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday, federal health officials said. They would not reveal his nationality or age.
Authorities have begun tracking down family and friends who may have had close contact with him and could be at risk for becoming ill. But officials said there are no other suspected cases in Texas.
"The bottom line here is that I have no doubt we will control this importation, or this case of Ebola, so that it does not spread widely in this country."
TOM FRIEDEN Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Director Tom Frieden said the man left Liberia on Sept. 19, arrived the next day to visit relatives and started feeling ill four or five days later. He said it was not clear how the patient became infected.
Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting
There was no risk to anyone on the airplane because the man had no symptoms at the time of the flight, Frieden said.
and bleeding, and can appear as long as 21 days after exposure to the virus. The disease is not contagious until symptoms begin, and it takes close contact with bodily fluids to spread.
"The bottom line here is that I have no doubt we will control this importation, or this case of Ebola, so that it does not spread widely in this country," Frieden told reporters.
"It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual, a family member or other individual, could develop Ebola in the coming weeks," he added. "But there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here."
In Washington, President Barack Obama was briefed about the diagnosis in a call from Frieden, the White House said.
Four American aid workers who became infected in West Africa have been flown back to the U.S. for treatment after they became sick. They were cared for in special isolation facilities at hospitals in Atlanta and Nebraska. Three have recovered.
Also, a U.S. doctor exposed to the virus in Sierra Leone is under observation in a similar facility at the National Institutes of Health.
The U.S. has only four such isolation units. Asked whether the Texas patient would be moved to one of those specialty facilities, Frieden said there was no need and virtually any hospital can provide the proper care and infection control.
"We don't have those
Dr. Edward Goodman, an epidemiologist at the hospital, said the U.S. was much better prepared to handle the disease than African hospitals, which are often short of doctors, gloves, gowns and masks.
problems. So we're perfectly capable of taking care of this patient with no risk to other people" he said.
After arriving in the U.S. on Sept. 20, the man began to develop symptoms last Wednesday and initially sought care two days later. But he was released. At the time, hospital officials did not know he had been in West Africa. He returned later as his condition worsened.
Blood tests by Texas health officials and the CDC separately confirmed an Ebola diagnosis on Tuesday.
State health officials described the patient as seriously ill. Goodman said he was able to communicate and was hungry.
The hospital is discussing if experimental treatments would be appropriate, Frieden said.
Since the summer months, U.S. health officials have been
preparing for the possibility that an individual traveler could unknowingly arrive with the infection. Health authorities have advised hospitals on how to prevent the virus from spreading within their facilities.
People boarding planes in the outbreak zone are checked for fever, but that does not guarantee that an infected person won't get through.
Liberia is one of the three hardest-hit countries in the epidemic, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Ebola is believed to have sickened more than 6,500 people in West Africa, and more than 3,000 deaths have been linked to the disease, according to the World Health Organization. But even those tolls are probably underestimates, partially because there are not enough labs to test people for Ebola.
by American naval researchers arrived this weekend and will be operational this week, according to the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. The labs will reduce the amount of time it takes to learn if a patient has Ebola from several days to a few hours.
Two mobile Ebola labs staffed
The U.S. military also delivered equipment to build a field hospital, originally designed to treat troops in combat zones. The 25bed clinic will be staffed by American health workers and will treat doctors and nurses who have become infected.
The U.S. is planning to build 17 other clinics in Liberia and will help train more health workers to staff them.Britain has promised to help set up 700 treatment beds in Sierra Leone, and its military will build and staff a hospital in that country.France is sending a field hospital and doctors to Guinea.
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Marathon bombing suspects' sister faces NYC judge
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Ailina Tsarnaeva, 24, of North Bergen, New Jersey, was held on aggravated harassment charges. She is accused of threatening a woman who previously had a romantic relationship with her husband.
NEW YORK — A sister of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was led away in handcuffs Tuesday after a brief court appearance on allegations she threatened to "put a bomb" on a perceived romantic rival.
"Leave my man alone," she said in a phone call on Aug. 25, according to the criminal complaint. "Stop looking for him. I have people. I know people that can put a bomb where you live."
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Abreu said Tsarnaeva was apparently referencing her brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan
Tsarnaev, who had been the subjects of an intense manhunt in the Boston area in the days after the deadly April 2013 marathon bombing. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died following a gunbattle with police, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured.
Prosecutors said Tsarnaeva had driven past the woman's house since an order of protection was issued.
"My client is an easy target," Marcus said. "This is an uncorroborated claim."
Marcus said Tsarnaeva, a mother of two including a 5-month-old, and her family had "absolutely no means" and she did not deserve to be jailed.
Tsarnaeva's attorney, Susan Marcus, said she disputes making such statements.
According to a statement Tsarnaeva gave police, she called the woman to tell her to leave her family alone because
she had been harassing her husband.
"She started screaming and calling me names and saying that I will see what she is going to do to me," she said, according to the statement. "So I hung up the phone on her."
"I have nothing to say," she told reporters.
Tarnaeva arrived at Manhattan criminal court with a man, though it was unclear if it was her husband, as a small group of protesters screamed insults.
Tsarnaeva has an ongoing case in Massachusetts and is required to check in with probation officers since
Her lawyer referred to the father of Tsarnaeva's children as her husband, though it has also been reported they were not married.
Judge Denise Dominquez renewed the order of protection and set bail at $5,000.
She also was arrested in 2009 on charges she left the scene of an accident, but the case was dismissed, prosecutors said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with building and planting the two pressure cooker bombs that exploded near the marathon's finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Prosecutors said she picked up someone who passed a counterfeit bill at a restaurant at a Boston mall and "lied about certain salient facts during the investigation."
Ailina Tsarnaeva, sister of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, makes her appearance in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday. Authorities allege Tsarnaeva of North Bergen, N.J., claimed people she knew could bomb the home of a woman who was previously involved with her husband. Her lawyer, Susan Marcus, said Tuesday the claim is "uncorroborated." Bail was set at $5,000. Her brother Dzhokhar has pleaded not guilty in the April 2013 marathon explosions, which killed three people. Her other brother, Tamerlan, died after a gunbattle with police.
prosecutors said she failed to cooperate with a 2010 counterfeiting investigation.
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