AP reported that the second U.S. Ebola patient, who was the second American citizen to be contaminated by the epidemic, was scheduled to be released from hospital today after being fully treated from the virus. It is reported that the patient in question, Amber Vinson left that Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia at 1 pm.
Vinson was one of the medical personnel who was involved in treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who was an Ebola patient from Liberia who recently died at a hospital in Texas. It is believed that Duncan had entered the U.S. after a trip in Liberia and became the first U.S. citizen to be affected by the Ebola, and is currently the only U.S. citizen that was killed.
The Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas reported that Duncan had showed some typical Ebola symptoms and he was brought into the hospital for further diagnostics and treatment. After word had spread that someone was found to have Ebola in Texas, many residents of Dallas expressed great fear concerning the spread of the virus. Some local schools announced temporary breaks and medical personnel were dispatched to sterilize Duncan’s apartment and the surrounding neighborhood. The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital also quarantined two other men who were living with Duncan to see if they were also infected by the epidemic.
Right now, the U.S. has dispatched around 3,000 military medical personnel to West Africa to help fight the Ebola and work with African patients who were already infected. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that they will have a vaccine ready for testing and mass production and distribution by December or early next year. Several other national research institutions from Europe and Canada and pharmaceutical companies have sent a sample vaccine to Geneva for testing.
Nations all over the world including the U.S. and E.U. are going through a great deal of fear of the Ebola Virus, the U.S. already having to see one of its citizens fall victim to the epidemic. Korea and Japan are also on the alert for people entering their borders from countries that are known to have Ebola outbreaks or patients. Around half of all people who were contaminated by the virus were killed.
