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MERS-exposed hospital workers in Munster return to work
Updated at 08:10 AM today
MUNSTER, Ind. (WLS) -- An official at a northwest Indiana hospital says 50 employees who were told to stay at home in isolation after coming in contact with a man diagnosed with a mysterious virus from the Middle East have been cleared to return to work.
Munster Community Hospital chief medical information officer Dr. Alan Kumar says the first of the cleared workers were scheduled to return to work Monday evening.
MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, has an incubation period of two to 14 days. Kumar says the incubation period passed for 35 of the workers on Sunday and for the final 15 on Monday...
MERS-exposed hospital workers in Munster return to work
Updated at 08:10 AM today
MUNSTER, Ind. (WLS) -- An official at a northwest Indiana hospital says 50 employees who were told to stay at home in isolation after coming in contact with a man diagnosed with a mysterious virus from the Middle East have been cleared to return to work.
Munster Community Hospital chief medical information officer Dr. Alan Kumar says the first of the cleared workers were scheduled to return to work Monday evening.
MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, has an incubation period of two to 14 days. Kumar says the incubation period passed for 35 of the workers on Sunday and for the final 15 on Monday...