UPDATE

Officials: ‘About 100′ people may have had contact with the Texas Ebola patient

WASHINGTON  POST   OCTOBER 2, 2014  10:03 AM

Texas health officials said Thursday that there are "about 100" people who may have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who is being treated in a Dallas-area hospital for Ebola.

 "We are working from a list of about 100 potential or possible contacts and will soon have an official contact tracing number that will be lower," Texas Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Carrie Williams said in a statement. "Out of an abundance of caution, we're starting with this very wide net, including people who have had even brief encounters with the patient or the patient's home. The number will drop as we focus in on those whose contact may represent a potential risk of infection."​

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/02/official-80-people-may-have-had-contact-with-the-texas-ebola-patient/

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Earlier story:

NEW YORK TIMES       OCT. 2, 2014

DALLAS, Texas

Detailed description of the chain of contacts in Liberia and Texas of the man, Thomas Duncan, who was hospitalized in Dallas with Ebola, and the efforts to track down and isolate potential contacts.

Hospital officials admit that information that Mr. Duncan had been just been in Liberia had not been passed along tp the doctors who originally treated him.

“We’re confident that it’s isolated and it’s being contained, but everyone is working tirelessly to double- and triple- and quadruple-check their work, to make sure that we’ve done an absolutely thorough job of identifying anyone who might be at any risk,” said the top elected official of Dallas County, County Judge Clay Jenkins.

The family of Marthalene Williams, an Ebola victim, said Thomas E. Duncan helped take her to and from a hospital in Monrovia last month. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times

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