The first case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC).
The patient is believed to have been infected in Liberia before travelling to the US and began displaying symptoms in Dallas, Texas. The unnamed patient is receiving treatment and is in an isolation unit at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
Five US medical workers infected with Ebola have received treatment and recovered in the US after being evacuated from West Africa earlier over the last two months.
More than 3,000 people have died in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa, with more than 6,500 people infectd across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In a report published last week, medical experts from the World Health Organisation and Imperial College London warned:
“Unless Ebola control measures in west Africa are enhanced quickly,…numbers will continue to climb exponentially, and more than 20,000 people will have been infected by early November”
