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    US Ebola Patient Exposed School Age Children, Governor Said

    US Ebola Patient Exposed School Age Children, Governor Said

    Oct 1, 2014, 1:19 PM ET
    By SYDNEY LUPKIN
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    School-aged children in Texas may have been exposed to Ebola by the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States, officials said today.

    The children had contact with the patient and are being monitored at home, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said today in a press conference.


    "Let me assure you, these children have been identified and are being monitored," the governor said.


    "This is all hands on deck," Perry said.


    The country's top medical official who has vowed to stop Ebola "in its tracks" in the U.S., conceded today that it's "not impossible" that others will contract the disease.


    Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said an extensive tracking process is underway in the wake of the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States, with special focus on the patient’s family and health staff.


    “We have a seven-person team in Dallas working with the local health department and the hospital, and we will be identifying everyone who may have come in contact with him and then monitoring them for 21 days,” Frieden said.


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    The city of Dallas, which has activated its Emergency Operations Center on "Level 2: High Readiness," said, "We are currently evaluating 12-18 people that the patient confirmed to have the Ebola virus was in contact with."


    In addition, the three ambulance crew members that brought the patient to the hospital were tested for Ebola. The tests were negative, but the crew members were sent home and will be monitored for the next three weeks, the city said in a statement.


    Frieden believes the disease will be “stopped in its tracks” in this country.

    The unidentified man’s safety, along with the well-being of the medical people treating him, is a primary focus, Frieden said.

    “What we need to do first in this particular instance is do everything possible to help this individual who’s really fighting for their life, and then make sure that we’re doing that, that we don’t have other people exposed in the hospital, identify all those contacts and monitor them for 21 days. It’s not impossible that one or two of them would develop symptoms and then they would need to be isolated,” he said.


    Frieden said he’s confident that passengers who flew on the same plane as the patient did not contract the disease.


    “That was four or five days before he had his first symptoms and with Ebola, you’re not contagious until you have symptoms,” he said.


    Although American Ebola patients have been treated in the United States prior to this diagnosis, they all contracted Ebola in West Africa. Ebola has killed 2,917 people and infected 3,346 others since the outbreak began in March.

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    If you get any illness started in a school it spreads fast because the kids give it to each other. Then they take it home and give it to their siblings who take it to their schools and spread it around and all of the parents are exposed and take it to work. They spread it to other parents who take it home and give it to their kids, who take it to their schools.
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    Official says 5 kids had contact with Ebola patient, being monitored

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    Authorities said five students who had contact with a man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas are being monitored but are showing no symptoms of the disease.

    Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said Wednesday that the students were in school this week after possibly being in contact with the male patient, identified as Thomas Eric Duncan, over the weekend.


    Miles said the students are showing no symptoms and are now being monitored at home. Health officials said the disease is only spread by people with symptoms, such as diarrhea or vomiting.


    As an added precaution, Miles said additional health and custodial staff will be at the five schools the students attend.


    Duncan has been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas since Sunday after initially being sent home with antibiotics Friday.

    Blood tests by Texas health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) separately confirmed his Ebola diagnosis Tuesday.

    Duncan is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. and was listed in serious condition Wednesday.


    Authorities said the ambulance crew who transported Duncan and members of his family are among the 12 to 18 people being monitored after possible exposure.


    Mai Wureh, Duncan's sister, said her brother went to a Dallas emergency room on Friday after initially developing symptoms Wednesday and was sent home with antibiotics. Wureh says hospital officials asked for his Social Security number and he said that he didn't have one because he was visiting from Liberia.


    Dr. Mark Lester confirmed Wednesday that a nurse asked Duncan on his first visit whether he had been in an area affected by the Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands in West Africa but that the "information was not fully communicated throughout the whole team."


    Hospital officials told the Dallas Morning News that they are reviewing the initial decision to send him home.


    Officials said Duncan lived and worked in Liberia, where he likely caught the disease from one of the thousands infected in that country, but showed no symptoms when he flew back to the U.S. Sept. 19. As a result, no one who traveled with him on that flight is at risk of Ebola.


    Meanwhile, members of North Texas's 10,000-strong Liberian community told the Associated Press they were skeptical of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden's assurances that "we'll stop this in its tracks in the U.S."


    "We've been telling people to try to stay away from social gatherings," Stanley Gaye, president of the Liberian Community Association of Dallas-Fort Worth, said at a community meeting Tuesday.


    "We need to know who it is so that they (family members) can all go get tested," Gaye told The Associated Press. "If they are aware, they should let us know."

    The association's vice president encouraged all who may have come in contact with the virus to visit a doctor and she warned against alarm in the community.

    "We don't want to get a panic going," said Roseline Sayon. "We embrace those people who are coming forward. Don't let the stigma keep you from getting tested."


    Four American aid workers who became infected in West Africa have been flown back to the U.S. for treatment after they became sick. They were treated in special isolation facilities at hospitals in Atlanta and Nebraska.

    Three have recovered.


    A U.S. doctor exposed to the virus in Sierra Leone is under observation in a similar facility at the National Institutes of Health.


    Liberia is one of the three hardest-hit countries in the epidemic, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea.


    Ebola is believed to have sickened more than 6,500 people in West Africa, and more than 3,000 deaths have been linked to the disease, according to the World Health Organization. But even those tolls are probably underestimates, partially because there are not enough labs to test people for Ebola.


    Two mobile Ebola labs staffed by American naval researchers arrived this weekend and will be operational this week, according to the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. The labs will reduce the amount of time it takes to learn if a patient has Ebola from several days to a few hours.


    The U.S. military also delivered equipment to build a 25-bed clinic that will be staffed by American health workers and will treat doctors and nurses who have become infected. The U.S. is planning to build 17 other clinics in Liberia and will help train more health workers to staff them.

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