The man was “here to visit family who live in this country,” and was staying with family when he fell ill, said Frieden, who declined to say whether he is an American citizen.
The first confirmed case of Ebola has surfaced in the United States, involving a man who recently flew here from Liberia, federal health officials announced late Tuesday.
The critically ill patient, being cared for at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, has been diagnosed with the deadly virus, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a late afternoon news conference.
The man is receiving intensive care in isolation at the hospital, said Dr. Edward Goodman, the hospital’s epidemiologist. Experimental therapies are being discussed with his family members and his doctors.
This is the first patient ever diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, and the first patient outside Africa to ever be diagnosed with the Ebola Zaire strain, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden noted.
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