{"id":55539,"date":"2014-09-30T18:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55539"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:48:00","slug":"first-us-case-of-ebola-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55539","title":{"rendered":"First US case of Ebola suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why an American would be in Liberia, but this person was, and the CDC suspects that the traveler has Ebola, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2014\/09\/30\/cdc-confirms-first-case-ebola-in-us\/\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that the patient arrived in Texas from Liberia earlier this month and exhibited no symptoms. The patient sought care last Friday and has been hospitalized in isolation since the weekend. Frieden said that officials don&#8217;t believe there is any risk to anyone who was on the flight at that time.<\/p>\n<p>State health officials say no other cases are suspected in Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2014\/09\/30\/cdc-confirms-first-case-of-ebola-in-the-u-s\/?hpid=z1\">The Washington Post<\/a> says that it&#8217;s been confirmed by the Center for Disease Control;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State and federal health officials announcing the confirmed case repeatedly stressed the difficulties of contracting Ebola, which can be spread through bodily fluids or infected animals but not through the air or by water.<\/p>\n<p>This person who is infected left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in the U.S. the following day to visit family in this country. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, if you need a reminder, Liberia is where we&#8217;re sending those 3,000 troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why an American would be in Liberia, but this person was, and &hellip; <a title=\"First US case of Ebola suspected\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55539\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First US case of Ebola suspected<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}