Texas health worker diagnosed with Ebola

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a Texas nurse who treated an Ebola-stricken Liberian man has tested positive for Ebola, according to the Washington Post.

The news came only four days after the death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas.

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