100 people at risk of Ebola exposure in Texas

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100 people at risk of Ebola exposure in Texas

First confirmed case of Ebola in Texas

Health officials in Texas warn that as many as 100 people may have had direct and indirect contact with the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States.

Officials said Thursday that they were still questioning people who may have crossed paths with Thomas E. Duncan while he was contagious with the deadly virus.

Of those people only a few have been quarantined including family members and the medical technicians who rushed Duncan to the hospital on Sunday.

Texas health officials issued a directive banning four close relatives of the patient from leaving their homes or having visitors without permission through October 19.

“The order is in place until the incubation period has passed and the family is no longer at risk of having the disease,” said Dr. David Lakey, the Texas health commissioner.

The Dallas patient, who had flown from the West African country of Liberia, was initially admitted at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital late last Thursday but was sent home with antibiotics.

A spokeswoman for the Dallas County health and human services department said the people on the list were being closely monitored and that none of them were symptomatic.

“It’s a constant process of interviews and locating as many contacts as are out there,” Erikka Neroes said.

She said that more people could be added to the list on a daily basis.

A superintendent with Dallas Independent School District said Duncan came in contact with five students who attended four different schools in the area with 3,500 students.

More than 3,000 people have died in this year’s epidemic in West Africa.

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