Eric Duncan Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/eric-duncan/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Eric Duncan Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/eric-duncan/ 32 32 US seeking passengers on a plane with Ebola-infectred nurse https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/us-seeking-passengers-plane-ebola-infectred-nurse/ Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/us-seeking-passengers-plane-ebola-infectred-nurse/ A second nurse who treated the first Ebola victim in the United States has tested positive for the deadly haemorrhagic disease. The search is on to trace 132 passengers on a flight she took. President Barak Obama has cancelled travel plans to monitor developments. For a second successive day, President Barak Obama has elected to […]

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A second nurse who treated the first Ebola victim in the United States has tested positive for the deadly haemorrhagic disease.

The search is on to trace 132 passengers on a flight she took.

President Barak Obama has cancelled travel plans to monitor developments.

For a second successive day, President Barak Obama has elected to stay in the White House to monitor his government’s Ebola response.

Health officials are tracing 132 people on a plane with nurse Amber Vinson.

She and nurse Nina Pham contracted Ebola after treating Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who died a week ago in Dallas.

A nurses’ union has said those treating Duncan were not given full protection and had parts of their skin exposed

Meanwhile, the UN’s Ebola mission chief says the world is falling behind in the race to contain the virus, that’s killed more than 4 400 in West Africa.

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