Area known as ‘Ellis Island of Dallas’ at the center of Ebola scare

Thursday, October 2, 2014
By Paul Martin

By John M. Glionna
LATimes.com
Oct. 1, 2014

Many have come to the neighborhood known as Five Points to escape. They wait in the low-slung, working-class apartments to find out whether they will be granted asylum and a shot at a new life away from the violence, poverty and disease that scarred the lives they fled in places as far away as Asia and Africa.

On Wednesday, residents here learned that the Ebola virus some of them had left behind in West Africa had crossed the ocean, bringing a familiar fear to their new homes in the United States.

One of those suddenly trapped in medical isolation behind the wrought-iron fence of the Ivy Apartments complex is the fiancee of the Liberian man who this week became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola outside Africa. The woman, who was not identified, had spent an unknown amount of time with Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived from Liberia for a visit on Sept. 20.

Stanley Gaye, president of the Liberian Community Assn. of Dallas-Fort Worth, said he talked with the woman, who was staying at home watching developments on the television news with her two children. Workers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been to her house several times, he said. They have advised her to take her temperature frequently and go quickly to the hospital if she develops a fever.

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