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Ebola Missteps Prompt Tough New CDC Guidelines

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Doctors have given a clean bill of health to more than 40 people exposed to Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States.
    
Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing tougher guidelines for health care workers treating Ebola patients.

The CDC rules now call for a full body suit with a hood that protects health workers' necks.

There are also more stringent procedures removing equipment and disinfecting hands, and a "site manager" must supervise putting on and taking off the protective suit.

"The bottom line is that the guidelines didn't work for that hospital. Dallas showed that taking care of Ebola is hard," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said.

Meanwhile, Duncan's fiancé, Louise Troh, and her family spent their first night out of quarantine after being given the all clear.

"She's thrilled to be free, and yet I think we have to think about what freedom means at this point," Rev. George Mason with the Wilshire Baptist Church said.

Most of her possessions were destroyed by the decontamination teams. All she has left is her grandmother's Bible, a laptop, and a passport.

Still, experts are encouraged that she made it through without getting infected, even after sharing an apartment with Duncan. They hope it will help reduce fears about Ebola spreading.

Meanwhile, in Ohio, 142 people were still being monitored for symptoms. Three people remained under quarantine because they had direct skin contact with one of the two nurses infected by Duncan after she visited the state by airliner.

And 116 people are being monitored in Dallas, along with nearly 200 others who traveled on the same plane as infected nurse Amber Vinson.

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