On 15 October 2014, Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed that a second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had tested positive for Ebola. The disclosure followed news that Nina Pham, a nurse who had cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, had also contracted that disease in the course of her duties. Duncan died of Ebola on 8 October 2014.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) did not comment on the second Ebola case among healthcare workers at Texas Presbyterian at the time the story broke. But health officials in Texas said the worker, a female, had presented with an elevated temperature on 14 October 2014. Within 90 minutes, the woman was admitted and hospitalized.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said the city is "preparing contingencies for more [Ebola diagnoses] and that is a very real possibility." NBC News reported 75 hospital employees are being monitored for Ebola symptoms in the wake of Pham's diagnosis. Jenkins added the city did not plan to enforce any sort of restriction on the workers:
