A patient displaying symptoms of Ebola was at large among the American public for several days last week, and it happened because of a hospital miscommunication.
This wasn't supposed to happen, and it didn't have to. In preparation for a possible case in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been educating the health community for months on the virus and offering guidelines to hospitals for detecting and treating potential Ebola patients.
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