Schoolchildren exposed in US Ebola scare: Texas governor Rick Perry reveals fears for kids and says 18 Americans may have virus after hospital sent infected man home with PAINKILLERS

Wednesday, October 1, 2014
By Paul Martin

A male patient who traveled to Dallas from Liberia has been quarantined at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday
Several children whom the patient came in contact with are being monitored at home, Governor Rick Perry said today
He is first person diagnosed with Ebola in U.S. as CDC ‘disease detectives’ arrived in Texas today to track down anyone he came in contact with
Patient 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’
He was rushed to hospital, vomiting two days later by EMTs
Dallas County Health Department was forced to deny that a second male patient was being closely monitored today after media reports

By Dan Bates For Mailonline In Dallas, Texas and Zoe Szathmary and Louise Boyle
DailyMailUK
1 October 2014

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 a number of students were in school this week after possibly being in contact with the patient over the weekend when he had become contagious.

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.

His sister Mai Wureh said her sick brother told officials the first time he went to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital that he was visiting from the West African country in the so-called ‘Ebola hot zone’ – before he was sent home with antibiotics.

Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles said on Wednesday 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 five schools the students attend.

Mr Duncan’s family are among up to 18 people being monitored after exposure to the man along with the ambulance crew who transported him to hospital.

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