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cnn news 2014-10-11

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Containing the Ebola virus. There`s an international scramble to do it. An update from the U.S. leads off this

Tuesday show. As of last night, Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed in the U.S. with Ebola was at a Texas hospital in critical

condition.

The state`s governor Rick Perry wants the federal government to enhance its screening of travelers anywhere they might enter the U.S. Governor Perry

wants quarantine stations installed, temperatures taken if Ebola exposure is suspected.

It`s unlikely that would have stopped Thomas Eric Duncan from entering America, though, because his symptoms reportedly didn`t start until after

he`d arrived.

In a survey of American Nurses released last week, most said their hospitals were not prepared for Ebola patients.

Kyung Lah found a facility that says it is.

KYUNG LAH, cnn CORRESPONDENT: The first line of defense if there`s an Ebola outbreak in the United States will be the nation`s hospitals. So, do

they have a plan?

At this one, they do.

The patient will most likely come into the emergency room. And what this hospital, the Los Angeles County USC Hospital here in Los Angeles, what

they`ve put into place, is essentially an action plan.

The patient walks into the emergency room. You always check in. One of the first things they ask if it looks like the patient has a fever or

sweating, is nauseous, maybe even vomiting, did you travel to West Africa? And there are signs all over this hospital saying that if you`ve traveled

to West Africa in the last three weeks, you need to check if you have Ebola.

So, that kicks their action plan into place. They then transport that person to an isolation room, and it`s exactly like what it sounds. You

don`t have contact with anyone except people who are prepared to deal with the patient who has Ebola.

So, what does a worker do before walking into isolation room to deal with a potential Ebola case? They have to cover themselves from head to toe.

They wear a masque, they cover their eyes, they wear a gown that is water impermeable, so that no fluids can affect that hospital workers. They

cover their feet and they cover their hands. And before they do any of that, they wash their hands for 15 seconds.

Once they are in the isolation room they have to mark when they enter, they also mark when they leave.

That is the case for anyone who walks into that isolation room. They follow CDC guidelines if the patient is very sick, they double glove, they

double gown, they basically isolate everyone who comes in who is a suspected Ebola case. Has it happened yet here in California? No. Do

they expect that it might? Possibly. And they say with this case in Dallas, this hospital has to be prepared.