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Schoolchildren Exposed In US Ebola Scare by Nobody: 1:59pm On Oct 02, 2014
Five students attended four different Dallas
schools this week after possibly being in close
contact with the Ebola patient over the weekend
The Ebola patient was named today as Thomas
Eric Duncan, who had traveled to the U.S. from
Liberia on September 20 to visit family
Mr Duncan, a Liberian national, quarantined at
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday
in a 'serious but stable condition'
The children who came in contact with Mr Duncan
are showing no symptoms and are now being
monitored at home
The schools are on high alert with additional
health and custodial staff as an added precaution
Other children were taken out of one Dallas
school by concerned parents
Mr Duncan arrived in U.S. on September 20 - after
flying from Liberia via Brussels in Belgium - but
did not develop symptoms until September 24
He attended Texas Health Presbyterian on
September 26 - but was dismissed with antibiotics
and 'not asked details about his travel history'
Mr Duncan may have contracted Ebola while
helping carrying his landlord's seriously ill
daughter to hospital in Liberia. She died the next
day

Schoolchildren in Texas may be at risk from Ebola
today after five children who attend four different
Dallas schools came in close contact with the first
patient diagnosed with the deadly virus on U.S. soil.
Officials said on Wednesday that the students were in
school this week after possibly being in contact with
the patient over the weekend when he had become
contagious with the deadly virus.
The Ebola patient was named today as Thomas Eric
Duncan, a Liberian national in his mid-forties, who
had traveled to the U.S. from Liberia on September
20 to visit his family.

His sister Mai Wureh said her sick brother told
officials the first time he went to Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital on September 26 that he was
visiting from a West African country in the so-called
'Ebola hot zone' - but was sent home with antibiotics,
a critically-missed opportunity to prevent others
being exposed to the disease.
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent
Mike Miles said on Wednesday that the children who
came in contact with Mr Duncan are showing no
symptoms and are now being monitored at home.
As an added precaution, Miles says additional health
and custodial staff will be at the high, middle and two
elementary schools that the students attend.
The Star-Telegram reported that children from L.L.
Hotchkiss Elementary School were taken out of
school by concerned parents.

Read more at: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2776965/Schoolchildren-exposed-US-Ebola-scare-patient-named-Thomas-Eric-Duncan.html
Re: Schoolchildren Exposed In US Ebola Scare by AntiWomanWrapin: 2:02pm On Oct 02, 2014
US now struggling... GOD of Nigeria will help you
Re: Schoolchildren Exposed In US Ebola Scare by Nobody: 2:04pm On Oct 02, 2014
I just hope Americans can contain this disease, and I pray school won't be shut down till further notice too.
I can only imagine how much fear every American is facing right now, not trusting ur neighbour in public gathering, in train stations, public transport, et al. All I can say to America is "take heart" and like we Nigerians did, we believed in GOD, and we didn't use no zmapp.
Re: Schoolchildren Exposed In US Ebola Scare by Nobody: 2:05pm On Oct 02, 2014
AntiWomanWrapin: US now struggling... GOD of Nigeria will help you
they should all start bathing with salt and start eating kolanut too

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