Ebola Task Force Director: “This is the New Normal”
Tue, 2014-10-28 19:21
News Staff
Texas needs to be better prepared to respond to emerging infectious diseases like Ebola, the director of a new state task force on such diseases said last week. “This is the new normal,” Brett Giroir, director of the Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response, said at the conclusion of a nearly four-hour state Capitol hearing. It was the task force’s first public meeting since being formed by Gov. Rick Perry in early October in the wake of the country’s first diagnosis of Ebola, which occurred in Dallas. The virus proved fatal for the initial patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, and spread to two nurses who treated him, prompting panic in Texas and elsewhere in the country.
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