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1. Mark your confusion
2. Show evidence of close reading, annotate the text
3. Use the Questions Stems to Review Close Reading Skills for your Exam.
4. Write a 1 page reflection (DO NOT JUST WRITE A SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE)

First diagnosed case of Ebola in the U.S.
Source: Dana Ford, CNN 9/30/14

Atlanta (CNN) -- A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in
the United States, health officials announced Tuesday.

The unidentified man left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20, said
Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At that time, the individual did not have symptoms. "But four or five days later," he began to exhibit them,
Frieden said. The individual was hospitalized and isolated Sunday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

Citing privacy concerns, health officials declined to release any details about how the patient contracted
the virus, what he was doing in Liberia or how he was being treated.

"I can say he is ill. He is under intensive care," Dr. Edward Goodman of the hospital told reporters.

The patient is believed to have had a handful of contacts with people after showing symptoms of the virus,
and before being isolated, Frieden said. A CDC team was en route to Texas to help investigate those
contacts.
The crew that transported the patient to the hospital has been isolated, the chief of staff for Dallas Mayor
Mike Rawlings told CNN.

At the same time, Frieden sought to play down the risk to public health. There are currently no other
suspected cases of Ebola in Texas.

"It's a severe disease, which has a high-case fatality rate, even with the best of care, but there are core,
tried and true public health interventions that stop it," Frieden said.

"The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so
that it does not spread widely in this country," he said.

According to the CDC, Ebola causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which can affect multiple organ systems in
the body and is often accompanied by bleeding.

Early symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headaches and a sore throat, each
of which can be easily mistaken early on for other ailments like malaria, typhoid fever and meningitis.
Ebola is spread by direct contact with someone sick with the virus. That means people on the patient's
flight are not thought to be at risk, as he did not begin to show symptoms until several days after arriving
in the United States, Frieden said.

"The issue is not that Ebola is highly infectious. The issue with Ebola is that the stakes are so high," he told
reporters.


The director declined to answer whether the patient is a U.S. citizen, saying just that he was in Texas to
visit family. Frieden also declined to say, clearly, whether the patient is a man, although he referred to the
person as "he" on multiple occasions.

A number of other Americans have been diagnosed with the disease in West Africa and then brought to
the United States for treatment.

The Ebola outbreak has been centered in the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia,
though there have been concerns about international air travel and other factors -- including the fact the
symptoms might not appear until two to 21 days after one is infected -- may contribute to its spread.

More than 3,000 people in West Africa have died after being infected with Ebola, according to a World
Health Organization report from last week. The same report stated that there had been 6,553 cases of the
virus overall, though the number is suspected to be much higher, given difficulties in tracking and
reporting the disease.

"I have no doubt that we'll stop this in its tracks in the U.S. But I also have no doubt that as long as the
outbreak continues in Africa, we need to be on our guard," said Frieden.

"A Disease to One's Flesh "
Author: Yvonne Iversen

Jealousy.

A disease.
A disease to one's flesh.
To one's mind.
To one's thoughts.
To one's body.

Infiltrations in one's trust,
making believes of what maybe is not.
A wrapped up infection.
Sets in like a storm.
Obtaining infection by one's fresh air,
manipulate one's faith of what could be.

In the lack of answers,
when one's being short on trustworthy reply
on what's ought to be denied,
we maintain the obscure of fear
by longing for what we can not achieve.
A stroked becoming of one's addiction.

Highlight the following:
One sentence that displays the author's purpose- annotate with the authors purpose is
One sentence that displays the tone- annotate what the tone is
One sentence that displays mood- annotate the mood
One sentence that displays the theme annotate the theme
Unit 2 Review:

Define the Authors purpose.

Define unfamiliar words (context clues).

How does the author use dialogue?

What is the Central idea?

Support details/ evidence in passage to develop theme?

Compare the two texts What literary or rhetorical devices are used to express the
theme of the pieces? How is this different between the poem and the news article?