Frieden: Health-Care Workers ‘Loud and Clear’ About Feeling Unprepared for Ebola

CDC's Frieden: Health-Care 'Loud and Clear' about Feeling Unprepared for Ebola (The Washington Times)

The official spearheading the U.S. response to Ebola announced Tuesday that expert teams will respond to any new cases within hours, a reaction to “loud and clear” complaints from health care workers who do not know how to treat the deadly virus.

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent, said he wished they had such a team in place when Thomas Eric Duncan tested positive at a Dallas hospital days after arriving from Liberia. He died last week, and a 26-year-old nurse who treated him has tested positive for Ebola, marking the first time the virus was transmitted within the U.S.