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Officials Hoping to Determine Whether Woman Has First Known Ebola Virus in North America

Aired February 7, 2001 - 11:35 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: International health detectives hope to determine soon whether or not a woman in Canada is suffering from the Ebola virus. If she is, it would be the first documented case of the often-deadly virus in North America.

CNN's Bill Delaney is in Hamilton, Ontario, following the case -- Bill.

BILL DELANEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, yes, Daryn, for the first time, Canada's put into effect its emergency plan for dealing with a tropical disease because of an African woman now in isolation here at Henderson General Hospital, in Hamilton, Ontario.

Her condition described as semiconscious, serious but stable, she has a low-grade case of malaria, but the question is does she have the Ebola virus? We don't know. We may find out this afternoon -- may find out this afternoon -- at a press conference scheduled for 3:00.

Her bodily fluids -- bodily fluids from this woman -- are being examined at a government -- a Canadian government lab in Winnipeg at the -- and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta.

Now, the woman came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, traveled through New York, up to Toronto, and then made the hour drive here to Hamilton, Ontario, to see some friends. She was admitted to the emergency room here Sunday night, where she spent 18 hours before being put in isolation.

Canadian officials stressing there's no threat to the general public. You can't get Ebola from the air -- it's not an airborne virus. But other experts are cautioning that this is a very serious situation.

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LAURIE GARRETT, AUTHOR, "THE COMING PLAGUE": People should be very careful not to the leap to any conclusions. Canada previously mistakenly identified an Africa traveler as an Ebola carrier. We want to wait and see what the laboratory tests say. But I were working in that hospital, I would want -- I would want to operate on the assumption that it was something quite dangerous and take appropriate precautions? (END VIDEO CLIP)

DELANEY: Hospital officials monitoring some 20 employees here at Henderson General Hospital who came into contact with this woman, but there's -- they are still at work, not -- not too much concerned that they may be in too much danger.

Back to you -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Bill Delaney, in Hamilton, Ontario, thank you very much.

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