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October 3, 2014

Texas: Hosts of Ebola Victim Quarantined with Contaminated Sheets, Towels 
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Authorities are assessing 100 people who may have had contact with the
first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States. The partner of
Thomas Eric Duncan, meanwhile, says she and three other family members
have been quarantined in the apartment where Duncan was staying under
threat of criminal charges if they leave. But the sheets and dirty
towels used by Duncan remain inside the apartment, too, as authorities
struggle to find a company willing and able to safely take them. Duncan
was sent home from a Dallas hospital last week despite telling a nurse
he had been to Liberia. He was readmitted by ambulance four days later.
The hospital blamed a gap in its electronic record keeping that
prevented a doctor from seeing the nurse's note about Duncan's travels.
Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, told NBC he had personally called the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Josephus Weeks: "I called CDC to get some actions taken, because I was
concerned for his life and he wasn't getting the appropriate care, and I
was fear –- I feared that other people might, you know, also get
infected if he wasn't taken care of."

In Liberia, a freelance cameraperson who worked for NBC News has become
the fourth American diagnosed with Ebola. Ashoka Mukpo will be flown to
the United States for treatment.

 

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