Too early to tell yet but
Hospital officials in New Haven have quarantined a patient with Ebola-like symptoms as a precaution.
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They confirmed that the patient was one of the Yale University student researchers that helped monitor the Ebola outbreak in Liberia last month. That student was one of two who had been tested in Liberia. Both had negative results. They came back home on Oct. 11.
University officials at the time said the two students voluntarily sequestered themselves and did not show any symptoms. The other student remains in isolation.
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EDIT-Tests were negative for Ebola.
As far as the spread from patients in the hospitals goes, I don't have a lot of faith in the systems in place for health care workers. When my wife was hospitalized for MRSA, protocols for nurses caring for her were routinely broken. Masks were not always worn, gloves were not always worn even while dealing with the IV site, patient-specific thermometers and stethoscopes weren't always used and left the room without proper handling. It's no wonder to me that the MRSA bacteria is becoming such a big issue in hospitals and won't surprise me if the Ebola virus does the same and expands into the rest of the population for the same reasons.