Ebola virus cases in the United States
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As of December 2014, four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") have been diagnosed in humans in the United States. Eleven cases have been reported, including these four cases and seven cases medically evacuated from other countries; the first was reported in September 2014. Nine of the people contracted the disease outside the US and traveled into the country, either as regular airline passengers or as medical evacuees; of those nine, two died. Two people have contracted Ebola in the United States. Both were nurses who treated an Ebola patient; both have recovered.On September 30, 2014, the CDC announced that Thomas Eric Duncan, a reportedly 42-year-old (later corrected by CDC reports as a 45-year-old) Liberian national visiting the United States from Liberia, had been diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas, Texas. Duncan, who had been visiting family in Dallas, was treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. By October 4, Duncan's condition had deteriorated from "serious but stable" to "critical". On October 8, Duncan died of Ebola.
The other three cases diagnosed in the United States as of October 2014 were:
October 11, 2014, a nurse, Nina Pham, who had provided care to Duncan at the hospital.
October 14, 2014, Amber Joy Vinson, another nurse who treated Duncan.
October 23, 2014, physician Craig Spencer, diagnosed in New York City; he had just returned from working with Doctors Without Borders in Guinea, a country in west Africa.
Hundreds of people were tested or monitored for potential Ebola virus infection, but the two nurses were the only confirmed cases of locally transmitted Ebola. Public health experts and the Obama administration opposed instituting a travel ban on Ebola endemic areas, stating that it would be ineffective and would paradoxically worsen the situation.
No one both contracted and died of Ebola virus disease while in the United States. No new cases have been diagnosed in the United States since Craig Spencer was released from a New York City hospital on November 11, 2014.
