A Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital health care worker in Dallas who had \u201cextensive contact\u201d\u009d with the first Ebola patient to die in the United States has contracted the disease.<\/p>\n
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta confirmed the news Sunday afternoon after an official test.<\/p>\n
The infected person detected a fever Friday night and drove herself to the Presbyterian emergency room, where she was placed in isolation 90 minutes later. A blood sample sent to the state health lab in Austin confirmed Saturday night that she had Ebola \u201d\u201d the first person to contract the disease in the United States.<\/p>\n
The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that the infection in the health care worker, who was not on the organization\u2019s watch list for people who had contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, resulted from a \u201cbreach in protocol.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n