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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) ? One local doctor who recently returned from Sierra Leone is taking extra precautions about the Ebola virus. Dr. Myron Glick returned to WNY from West Africa last Thursday. Glick spent nearly two weeks in Sierra Leone on a mission.
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Glick traveled to Sierra Leone to help set up a health center which is an extension of his Buffalo Jericho Road Community Health Center. He says there is a great need there for health care, ?For the whole district of 540,000 people there?s only 3 doctors so the health need even before Ebola was tremendous.?
He doesn?t believe he was exposed to Ebola, because he didn?t provide any medical care. But even though he wasn?t exposed, now that he?s home he?s taking his temperature two times a day to make sure he doesn?t start showing symptoms. ?I have to contact the health department twice a day and let them know how I?m doing and what my temperature was. I have to do that for 21 days but I?m free to go around the community.?
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Dr. Glick has not had a fever. He?s screening will end on November 14. People with the Ebola virus are not contagious unless they are showing symptoms and it can only be spread through bodily fluids; the virus is not airborne.
http://wivb.com/2014/10/26/buffalo-doctor-monitoring-for-ebola/
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Glick traveled to Sierra Leone to help set up a health center which is an extension of his Buffalo Jericho Road Community Health Center. He says there is a great need there for health care, ?For the whole district of 540,000 people there?s only 3 doctors so the health need even before Ebola was tremendous.?
He doesn?t believe he was exposed to Ebola, because he didn?t provide any medical care. But even though he wasn?t exposed, now that he?s home he?s taking his temperature two times a day to make sure he doesn?t start showing symptoms. ?I have to contact the health department twice a day and let them know how I?m doing and what my temperature was. I have to do that for 21 days but I?m free to go around the community.?
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Dr. Glick has not had a fever. He?s screening will end on November 14. People with the Ebola virus are not contagious unless they are showing symptoms and it can only be spread through bodily fluids; the virus is not airborne.
http://wivb.com/2014/10/26/buffalo-doctor-monitoring-for-ebola/