Panic As US Record First Ebola Case

US federal health officials said on Tuesday the first patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus had been diagnosed in the country. The patient was hospitalised in Dallas, Texas, with symptoms that were confirmed to be caused by Ebola, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Earlier on Tuesday, the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said it had placed in strict isolation a person based on “symptoms and recent travel history”. The patient is the first to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, although a handful of US medical workers who were infected in West Africa have been flown back to the United States for treatment, and have recovered. The world’s largest outbreak of Ebola has infected 6,574 people across five west African countries, and killed 3,091, according to the World Health Organization.