Health care providers prepare for Ebola and the flu season

Ebola is not an eminent threat to the Pacific Northwest, but healthcare providers at Lincoln Hospital and North Basin Medical Clinics in Davenport, Wilbur, and Reardan and at Odessa Memorial Hospital and Clinic in Odessa are taking steps to be prepared in the event the virus arrives on their doorsteps.

“An outbreak of Ebola virus disease is unlikely to occur in Washington,” said Ed Dzedzy, Lincoln County Public Health Administrator. “We have good infection-control practices, well-trained public health staff and a process for monitoring people traveling from Ebola-affected areas to our state.”...