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Originally Posted by TruTexan
They are now saying on a Dallas News station this Sunday morning, that the nurse is a woman that is the one that treated Duncan while he was in isolation at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
They also mentioned a report of a healthcare worker that contracted Ebola in another country had a dog and that dogs can be carriers for the Ebola virus but it is NOT known if they can infect humans by transmission, so that dog was euthanized as a precaution.
It is not known the fate of this current healthcare worker's animal or if that animal is a dog or cat.
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It was a dog and most experts state that dogs and cats are not carriers but Ebola originally is said to come from fruit bats, which are carriers and it is considered a delicacy in some African regions. Folks in those areas originally contracted the disease by eating/handling diseased bats.
I think that there is much speculation at this point and a great deal of unknown.
* My perspective* from what I read. None of it reassures me.
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