Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Ebola’s Breakdown
Today, health officials in Texas identified the 10 people most at risk of contracting Ebola from an infected African man in a Dallas hospital. The man, Thomas Duncan, wasn’t diagnosed until several days after he started showing symptoms -- even though he’d visited an emergency room and told a nurse there he’d been in West Africa.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readToday, health officials in Texas identified the 10 people most at risk of contracting Ebola from an infected African man in a Dallas hospital. The man, Thomas Duncan, wasn’t diagnosed until several days after he started showing symptoms -- even though he’d visited an emergency room and told a nurse there he’d been in West Africa. We look at the communication breakdown at the Texas hospital.
