100 people in Texas being monitored for Ebola exposure

Health officials in Texas in the United States are monitoring at least 100 people for signs of Ebola after they were found to have had contact with the first confirmed Ebola patient identified as Thomas Eric Duncan of the city of Dallas. A health official said it is out of caution that they are casting a wide net, but expects the number to drop “as we focus in on those whose contact may represent a potential risk of infection.” Four “close family members” of the patient will be legally required to stay home without visitors until October 19. Duncan had travelled in Liberia in West Africa. The continent is struggling to contain the world’s largest outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic virus in history, which has taken more than 3,000 lives already this year.

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