Two people in Guilford County are being monitored for Ebola, according to the Guilford County Department of Public Health.
WFMY News 2
7:03 p.m. EST November 4, 2014
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Two people in Guilford County are being monitored
for Ebola, according to the Guilford County Department of Public
Health.
The Department reports the two people recently returned from Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone, in West Africa.
Laura Bachmann, Guilford County's medical director, says the patients have shown no symptoms of Ebola and have not knowingly come in contact with anyone who has it. Still, health department doctors are keeping a close eye on the patients to make sure nothing changes.
"If symptoms were to develop, then there's a plan in place to quickly isolate the patients," Bachmann said. "To get them safely to a facility that's capable of doing a further evaluation and manage the patient."
Doctors will check in with the patients daily over the next 21 days during the active monitoring period.
The procedures, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Custom and Border Protection, require monitoring of any traveler who's been to one of the three West African countries where Ebola is spreading.
Meanwhile, doctors at Duke University Hospital are waiting for more test results to make sure a person they're watching for Ebola symptoms does no have the virus.
The patient will stay in isolation until the results of the additional testing are confirmed.
As for the Guilford County patients, Bachmann has a reminder.
"None of our people have shown any symptoms," she said. "Ebola is not easy to get, people who do not have symptoms are not infectious." http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/2014/11/04/ebola-guilford-county-north-carolina-monitoring/18482595/
The Department reports the two people recently returned from Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone, in West Africa.
Laura Bachmann, Guilford County's medical director, says the patients have shown no symptoms of Ebola and have not knowingly come in contact with anyone who has it. Still, health department doctors are keeping a close eye on the patients to make sure nothing changes.
"If symptoms were to develop, then there's a plan in place to quickly isolate the patients," Bachmann said. "To get them safely to a facility that's capable of doing a further evaluation and manage the patient."
Doctors will check in with the patients daily over the next 21 days during the active monitoring period.
The procedures, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Custom and Border Protection, require monitoring of any traveler who's been to one of the three West African countries where Ebola is spreading.
Meanwhile, doctors at Duke University Hospital are waiting for more test results to make sure a person they're watching for Ebola symptoms does no have the virus.
The patient will stay in isolation until the results of the additional testing are confirmed.
As for the Guilford County patients, Bachmann has a reminder.
"None of our people have shown any symptoms," she said. "Ebola is not easy to get, people who do not have symptoms are not infectious." http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/2014/11/04/ebola-guilford-county-north-carolina-monitoring/18482595/
