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U.S. health officials said on Tuesday (September 30) the first patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus had been diagnosed in the country, in a new sign of how the outbreak ravaging West Africa can spread globally.
"Today we are providing the information that an indivdiual traveling from Liberia has been diagnosed with Ebola in the United States," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference.
The patient had recently traveled to West Africa and developed symptoms several days after returning to Texas, Frieden said. The patient was admitted to an isolation room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
U.S. health officials and lawmakers have been bracing for the eventuality that a patient would arrive on U.S. shores undetected, testing the preparedness of the nation's healthcare system.
"The next steps are ba
