(Bloomberg Politics) — The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that a "breach in protocol" exposed a Texas health care worker to Ebola, marking the nation's first transmission of the deadly virus that has ravaged West Africa in recent months.
"At some point, there was a breach in protocol," Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC director, said at a news conference. "And that breach in protocol resulted in this infection."
Test results of a hospital employee who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan came back positive for the infection late Saturday night, Frieden said. Duncan traveled to the United States from Liberia last month and had been hospitalized in Dallas since Sept 28. He died on Wednesday.
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