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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.

The Healpatagonia better sweater men's saleth Department is following national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocol for Ebolpatagonia wetsuit booties review0a monitoring, a procedure the CDC made more stringepatagonia store parisnt last week, Buchanan said. Once notified of the person travels to that area, Health Department personnel contacted the resident and requested that person take his or her temperature twice a day and check in by patagonia guide pants salephone with the health departmpatagonia wetsuit booties review3ent daily. In additionpatagonia rock guide pants women's, if the person experiences possible Ebola symptoms headaches,patagonia wetsuit booties review1 fever, nausea, vomiting any time of the day or night, that person is to call a number provided by the Health Department so arrangements can be made to isolate the person and other people from getting sick while healbuy patagonia shoes onlineth providers deterpatagonia atom sling pack reviewmine if the symptoms are of Ebola, malaria or something else.

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.

Buchanan declipatagonia guide jacket 3xlned to provide any information about the resident, including age, gender or occupation. In certain situations, the health departmenpatagonia guide pants unhemmedt would meet with a potentially exposed person patagonia wetsuit booties review2and his or her employer, to determine whether the person should go to work; she would not confirm whether this case qualified.

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