Texas Health-Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola

A health-care worker who cared for the Ebola patient who died last week in Dallas has preliminary tested positive for the disease, Texas health officials said early Sunday, in what is likely to have been the first known transmission in the U.S.

The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas reported a low-grade fever Friday night and was isolated, the health department said. A blood sample tested positive at the state public-health laboratory in Austin late Saturday, and a confirmatory test is being conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said that “unfortunately, we are confident” that the test will be confirmed positive by the CDC.

The health-care worker is believed to be a nurse, according to a person familiar with the investigation…