If the United States manufactured Ebola as a means of population control as some people claim, then the gamble must have horrifically backfired, as the first case of the deadly virus has been recorded on US soil.

The man in Dallas, Texas, has been confirmed as the first case of Ebola occurring within the US. The man is believed to have been in Liberia a while ago, where he must have contracted the virus before travelling back to the USA a fortnight ago.

Some aid workers contracted the virus in Africa and were flown back home, but this is the first case recorded of a person contracting the disease in country.

Officials of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where the patient is being held say he’s been held in isolation.

He returned to the US on 19 September to visit relatives, and started displaying symptoms on the 24th. He was admitted to the hospital and placed in isolation on the 28th of September.

Because he spent days going around before being admitted, health workers are trying to identify whoever he came into contact with to try and contain any potential outbreak.

The patient is said to be in critical condition, whilst all those who are identified as having come into contact with him would be placed under monitoring for 21 days.

This case in the USA comes at a time when the virus is believed to have been successfully contained in Nigeria and Senegal.

The US pioneered the experimental Ebola treatment Zmapp, which initially showed some success but has since not showed much as an antidote to the deadly virus.

It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with containing this infection, and already it seems measures are already in place to tackle it.

Ghana could learn a thing or two by observing things from afar.