Michele Fallon says her right eye is back to normal, she has received her last rabies shot and she has tested negative for a herpes virus.
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A Geisinger spokesman told PennLive on Tuesday, “Geisinger does not order infectious disease surveillance testing but may assist public health agencies in such efforts as needed.” Still, she is frustrated at the lack of information from the CDC and the Health Department, she said, adding that no one can or will tell her whether the remaining 97 monkeys have been screened for the herpes virus or any of the other infectious agents they may have been carrying in their saliva, feces, urine and/or blood.
Added Fallon: “I received no counseling before or after being prescribed antivirals. Despite the high risk of my exposure, I have received minimal information describing the signs and symptoms of B virus infection that I need to be watching for.”She came in direct contact with one of the 100 long-tailed cynomolgus macaques that were being transported and was exposed to their saliva, feces and feces as she assisted righting crates containing the primates.
The woman who drew the blood had no information or paperwork and was unable to say who ordered the samples, she said.
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