CDC 'deeply concerned' about Ebola protocol breach at Dallas hospital

DALLAS — The director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Sunday that the agency "is deeply concerned" to learn that "a breach in protocol" at a Dallas hospital resulted in a health-care worker becoming infected with the Ebola virus.

"At some point, there was a breach in protocol," Dr. Tom Frieden said. "And that breach in protocol resulted in this infection."

Texas health officials said early Sunday that the worker, who Frieden said "had extensive contact" on multiple occasions with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, had tested positive for the virus. She was found to have a "low level," Frieden said.

The worker's contacts with Duncan came during his second visit to the hospital, when he was admitted with serious symptoms. He was released from the emergency room after his first visit last month.

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