Metrosource is reporting that another healthcare worker has tested positive in Dallas.

A Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson says the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas worker reported a fever yesterday and was immediately isolated.

The worker, who has now tested positive for the virus, cared for Thomas Duncan when he was hospitalized with the disease.  Duncan later died from the disease.

The worker now joins Nina Pham, a nurse at the hospital who also treated Duncan.  Pham is still being treated for the disease.  Her condition, as of this posting, has been upgraded to "good."

It is estimated that approximately seventy people were treating Thomas Duncan.  It is not know how many of them may have been exposed to the virus.

This is a developing story and we will bring you more information as soon as it is available.

 

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