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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Monday said it "would not be surprised" if other healthcare workers at a Dallas hospital are diagnosed with Ebola.CDC Director Tom Frieden said he did not know how many workers might have been exposed to the virus, but estimated it was a "relatively large number."ADVERTISEMENT"We’re concerned, and unfortunately would not be surprised if we did see additional cases in healthcare workers who also provided care to the index patient," Frieden said.A nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was found to have Ebola over the weekend. Her case is the first-ever transmission of the virus in the United States.The CDC said it does not know how the nurse became exposed but is working to find out."If we knew there was a specific incident, like a needle stick, that would narrow it down. Since we don't know what the exposure was, we have to cast the net more widely," Frieden said.Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had been treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week after entering the United States with an undetected Ebola infection.
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