Ebola: U.S. patient faces possible charges as Texas monitors 100 people

Liberia could prosecute Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan for making a false declaration on his travel document. The head of the Liberian airport authority, Binyah Kesselly, said Duncan was asked in a questionnaire if he had come in contact with any Ebola victim or was showing symptoms of the disease. He replied he had not. In Duncan’s Liberian neighborhood, a collection of tin-roofed homes, has been ravaged by Ebola. So many people have fallen ill that neighbors are too frightened to comfort a 9-year-old girl who lost her mother to the disease.

This is a big spider web [of people involved.]

Erikka Neroes, a Dallas County Health and Human Services spokeswoman

Health officials in the U.S. state of Texas on Thursday were monitoring roughly 100 people for signs of Ebola and ordered four relatives of the Liberian Ebola patient to stay home under armed guard. A local judge said the unusual order was made after the family was “noncompliant” with a request not to leave their apartment. None of the people being monitored is showing symptoms, but public health officials have educated them about Ebola and told them to notify medical workers if they begin to feel ill, Erikka Neroes, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County Health and Human Services agency, said Thursday.

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