The first American victim of Ebola is listed in serious critical condition in a Dallas Hospital, but officials are trying to calm down citizens who are running scared irrationally.
They explained that while Ebola is highly dangerous, it can be spread only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital officials said the medical condition of the first diagnosed victim in the United States, Thomas Duncan, is deteriorating. Four other people living in the same residence with Duncan have been removed and examined, and they show no signs of the deadly disease.
Health officials are monitoring another 40 people who have been in contact with Duncan.
Duncan apparently brought the disease with him from Ebola-infected Liberia, where he visited. Hospital officials mis-diagnosed Duncan’s condition two weeks ago and released him until he was re-admitted three days later.
Ebola has spread fear throughout the country, and the Centers for Disease Control reported that in the last four days, 100 people in 33 states were investigated for the disease, which was not found in any of the cases.
One inmate in Georgia showed symptoms of Ebola, but tests were negative. However, he was put in isolation because he recently was in West Africa.
In Newark, New Jersey, a man and his daughter were hauled off a flight because of fears they were infected. THE CDC entered the plane is hazmat suits, and escorted the pair to the hospital. The CBC later determined they had not been infected.
NBC journalist Ashoka Mukpo, whose biological father is Jewish and who works in Liberia has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated there but was expected to return to the United States by Sunday.