Ebola hits Texas, USA…Patient is a man who just arrived from Liberia

The first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the United States. This was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A CDC spokesman told AFP news agency that the patient is a man infected in Liberia who travelled to Texas, where he was hospitalised with symptoms confirmed to be caused by the deadly virus.

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said earlier on Tuesday that it had placed a person in strict isolation based on their "symptoms and recent travel history".

Twelve other people in the US have been tested for Ebola since July, with all of those tests coming back negative.

A number of American health workers who were infected in West Africa have been flown back to the US for treatment and have recovered.

According to the World Health Organisation (W.H.O), the outbreak has infected 6,574 people across five countries and killed 3,091.

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