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(CNN) -- A female nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has tested positive for Ebola after a preliminary test, the state's health agency said.
Confirmatory testing will be conducted Sunday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Test results are expected to be announced later in the day.
The nurse helped care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person ever diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Duncan died Wednesday.
The nurse is in stable condition, Texas Health Resources chief clinical officer Dan Varga said.
The nurse was involved in Duncan's second visit to the hospital, when he was admitted for treatment, and was wearing protective gear as prescribed by the CDC: gown, gloves, mask and shield, Varga said.
A "close contact" of the nurse has been "proactively" placed in isolation, he added.
Case was anticipated
"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said in a statement Sunday morning.
"We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread."
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A general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is seen where patient Thomas Eric Duncan is being treated for the Ebola virus on October 4, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the Ebola patient who was hospitalized and later died there has tested positive for the disease in a preliminary test at the state public health laboratory in Austin. Confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, according to state officials.
The worker has been listed in stable condition.
Dr. David Varga, of the Texas Health Resource, said at a press conference Sunday morning the worker was in full protective gear when they provided care to the now-deceased Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan during his second visit to the hospital.
Varga did not identify the worker and said the family of the worker has "requested total privacy."
If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.
Varga said the health care worker reported a fever Friday night as part of a self-monitoring regimen required by the CDC.
The health care worker was then isolated within 90 minutes in the hospital's ICU and referred for testing. The preliminary test result was received late Saturday.
CDC Director Thomas Frieden told CBS' "Face The Nation" in an interview airing Sunday morning that the case is troubling "because clearly there was a breach in protocol."
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Dr. Dan Varga, of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, said at a news conference Sunday morning that the worker and his family have requested privacy, and that his condition is stable.
Varga also said the hospital would continue to care for its current patients but will be accepting no new ones. In addition, all staff members are being monitored for the virus.
The health care worker's diagnosis represents the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.
A statement posted on the Texas Department of State Health Service's website said "confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta."
Officials said the health care worker reported a low-grade fever Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing. Preliminary test results were received late Saturday.
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A health care worker at a Dallas hospital tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement early Sunday.
The health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who has not been identified, provided care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient in the United States, who died last week.
If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.
A statement posted on the Texas Department of State Health Service's website said "confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta."
The health care worker is a heroic person who provided care to Mr. Duncan, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said at a press conference Sunday morning. "We expected it was possible that a second person could contract the virus. Contingency plans were put into place."
Jenkins said he wanted to stress Ebola cannot be contracted unless one comes into contact with the bodily fluids of an Ebola victim.
"You cannot contract it by walking by people on the streets," he said. "There is nothing about this case that changes that basic premise of science."
Dr. Daniel Varga, of the Texas Health Resource, said the worker was in full protective gear when they provided care to Duncan during his second visit to the hospital.
Varga said the family of the worker has "requested total privacy."
Varga said the health care worker reported a fever Friday night as part of a self-monitoring regimen required by the CDC.
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Health care worker at Dallas hospital tests positive for Ebola
The female nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported fever on Friday but was NOT a part of the original 'high-risk' group The healthcare worker wore a gown, gloves, mask and shield while treating U.S. 'patient zero' Thomas Duncan A team of 19 epidemiologists are on the ground in Dallas speaking to everyone within a 4-block radius of the victim's apartment A second person who had ' close contact' with the nurse after she became symptomatic is also in isolation Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has stopped receiving emergency patients and will divert them elsewhere
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Published: 04:58 EST, 12 October 2014 | Updated: 08:41 EST, 12 October 2014
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A female nurse in Texas who treated America's Ebola 'patient zero' became the second person in the country to test positive for the deadly virus.
The nurse from the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported a fever on Friday night and was isolated immediately placed in isolation as the emergency room was locked down.
Area officials admitted at a Sunday press conference that the nurse was not a part of the original high risk pool identified after Thomas Eric Duncan's diagnosis in September and was, in fact, wearing protective gloves, gown and mask while treating Duncan.
First infection on U.S. soil: Ebola arrived to America in September and now a healthcare worker who treated 'patient zero' Thomas Duncan has tested positive for the virus as confirmed by at a Sunday press conference. Dr. David Varga, of the Texas Health Resource (pictured), says the worker was in full protective gear when they provided care to Duncan during his second visit to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
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Texas health care worker who treated Ebola patient there tests positive for the disease
The Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed that a second person in the state has tested positive of the Ebola virus. The latest case involves the healthcare worker who provided care for the first Ebola case in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Duncan died on Wednesday (Oct. 8).
The department released a statement addressing Texas latest case:
A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the Ebola patient hospitalized there has tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test at the state public health laboratory in Austin. Confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The health care worker reported a low grade fever Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing. The preliminary test result was received late Saturday.
We knew a second case could be a reality, and weve been preparing for this possibility, said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services. We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread.
Health officials have interviewed the patient and are identifying any contacts or potential exposures. People who had contact with the health care worker after symptoms emerged will be monitored based on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus.
Ebola is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects such as needles. People are not contagious before symptoms such as fever develop.
If the test results prove accurate, this will be the first case of the Ebola virus being contracted in the United States. The healthcare worker in question took Duncans temperature daily, and is currently in stable in condition, according to ABC News.
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DALLAS A health care worker at a Texas hospital who provided care for the Ebola patient who was hospitalized there, and later died, tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test at the state public health laboratory in Austin, officials said Sunday in a statement.
If confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S.
A statement posted on the Texas Department of State Health Service's website said "confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta."
Officials said the health care worker reported a low grade fever Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing. Preliminary test results were received late Saturday.
"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services. "We are broadening our team in Dallas and working with extreme diligence to prevent further spread."
Health officials have interviewed the patient and are identifying any contacts or potential exposures. They said people who had contact with the health care worker after symptoms emerged will be monitored based on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus.
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., died Wednesday in Dallas. Duncan, 42, grew up next to a leper colony in Liberia and fled years of war before later returning to his country to find it ravaged by the disease that ultimately took his life.
Duncan arrived in Dallas in late September, realizing a long-held ambition to join relatives. He came to attend the high-school graduation of his son, who was born in a refugee camp in Ivory Coast and was brought to the U.S. as a toddler when the boy's mother successfully applied for resettlement.
The trip was the culmination of decades of effort, friends and family members said. But when Duncan arrived in Dallas, though he showed no symptoms, he had already been exposed to Ebola. His neighbors in Liberia believe Duncan become infected when he helped a pregnant neighbor who later died from it. It was unclear if he knew about her diagnosis before traveling.
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Genetic engineering is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including thetransfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel organisms. The techniques involve sophisticated manipulations of genetic material and other biologically important chemicals.
Genes are the chemical blueprints that determine an organism's traits. Moving genes from one organism to another transfers those traits. Through genetic engineering, organisms can be given targeted combinations of new genesand therefore new combinations of traitsthat do not occur in nature and, indeed, cannot be developed by natural means. Such an approach is different from classical plant and animal breeding, which operates through selection across many generations for traits of interest. Classical breeding operates on traits, only indirectly selecting genes, whereas biotechnology targets genes, attempting to influence traits. The potential of biotechnology is to rapidly accelerate the rate of progress and efficiency of breeding.
Novel organisms
Nature can produce organisms with new gene combinations through sexual reproduction. A brown cow bred to a yellow cow may produce a calf of a completely new color. But reproductive mechanisms limit the number of new combinations. Cows must breed with other cows (or very near relatives). A breeder who wants a purple cow would be able to breed toward one only if the necessary purple genes were available somewhere in a cow or a near relative to cows. A genetic engineer has no such restriction. If purple genes are available anywhere in naturein a sea urchin or an iristhose genes could be used in attempts to produce purple cows. This unprecedented ability to shuffle genes means that genetic engineers can concoct gene combinations that would never be found in nature.
New risks
Genetic engineering is therefore qualitatively different from existing breeding technologies. It is a set of technologies for altering the traits of living organisms by inserting genetic material that has been manipulated to extract it from its source and successfully insert it in functioning order in target organisms. Because of this, genetic engineering may one day lead to the routine addition of novel genes that have been wholly synthesized in the laboratory.
In addition to desired benefits, novel organisms may bring novel risks as well. These risks must be carefully assessed to make sure that all effectsboth desired and unintendedare benign. UCS advocates caution, examination of alternatives, and careful, contextual, case-by-case evaluation of genetic enginering applications within an overall framework that moves agricultural systems of food production toward sustainability.
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