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CDC: US Needs Better Ebola Battle Plan (Picture of regional quarantine stations in US)
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the government would change its response to Ebola after officials confirmed Sunday a Dallas health care worker had been infected with the virus.
“We have to rethink the way we address Ebola control,” CDC director Tom Frieden said at a press conference in Atlanta.
The government confirmed Sunday that a hospital worker who had cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from Ebola at a Dallas hospital last week, had contracted the virus from Duncan. Though more than 8,000 people have been infected in West Africa, the Dallas hospital worker — identified by local TV station WFAA as 26-year-old Nina Pham — is the first person to have contracted the virus on U.S. soil.
Frieden said hospitals that care fo………………….MOREHERE
FEMA body bags and incinerator stations readied?