Scores of staffers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas were put at risk by lapses in the treatment of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., the patient's medical records show.
The medical records of Thomas Eric Duncan, given to the Associated Press by his family, provide a window of the span of exposure to the hospital's workers in the early days of Duncan's treatment.
The records show that because of a lag in implementing preventative measures or because of insufficient measures, multiple hospital staffers were put at risk.
The hospital's protective protocol was "insufficient," said Dr. Joseph McCormick of the University of Texas School of Public Health, who was part of the CDC team that investigated the first recorded Ebola outbreak in 1976. "The gear was inadequate. The procedures in the room were inadequate."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had previously pointed to lapses by the hosp
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