About 70 hospital staffers involved in care of Dallas Ebola patient

BREAKING: Records given to the AP show about 70 hospital staffers involved in care of Dallas Ebola patient.

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 13, 2014

About 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were involved in taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient to die in the U.S., according to the Associated Press.

The medical team’s involvement included drawing Duncan’s blood, putting tubes down his throat, wiping up his diarrhea, analyzing his urine and wiping his saliva. Among the group was Nina Pham, the 26-year-old nurse who contracted Ebola while taking care of Duncan.

AP says Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not established the exact number of people who had contact with Duncan.

During a press conference earlier today, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, said: “If this one individual was infected — and we don’t know how — within the isolation unit, then it is possible that other individuals could have been infected as well. We do not today have a number of such exposed people or potentially exposed health care workers. It’s a relatively large number, we think in the end.”