Knox officials monitoring resident for Ebola symptoms
The Knox County Health Department is monitoring a resident who recently traveled to one of the three West African countries that currently have Ebola outbreaks.
But the traveler has shown no symptoms, so one at Knoxvillepatagonia wetsuit booties review is at risk of infection from the person right now, said Health Department Director Dr. Martha Buchanan.
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Right now, the person is showing no symptoms and is not confined to home and can come and go at will, Buchanan said, though the Health Department did request the person not use public transportation and opatagonia outlet store 400ffered to provide alternative transportation if necessary, just as the county does with tuberculosis patients.
She said the person is cooperating. If that changed, which she does not expect, the county could call on the Tennessee Department of Health to help locate the person and take further action again, just as is sometimes done with tuberculosis patients.
state already has a system in place for containing infectious disease, Buchanan said.
Anyone with concerns about Ebola can call the Health Department at 865 215 5093.
This is the first known case of a Knox County resident who might have actual risk of exposure to Ebola, she said. Others have gone to the hospital with concerns but had not traveled to the actual area within the right time frame to put them at risk, she said.
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