#EbolaBreakingNews,
The number of people who had contact with #Ebola patient has dramatically increased from 18 to 80 and now to 100. Officials are hoping to contain this as soon as possible.
It has also been learned that family members have been Quarantined at home with an order not to leave.
Authorities say the family members do not currently have symptoms of Ebola, which include fever above 100.5 degrees, headache, nausea, diarrhea or abdominal pain. The order will continue until at least Oct. 19.
Area school have also been scrubbed down to try to mitigate the spread.
According to Yahoo News,
The number of people who had contact with #Ebola patient has dramatically increased from 18 to 80 and now to 100. Officials are hoping to contain this as soon as possible.
It has also been learned that family members have been Quarantined at home with an order not to leave.
Authorities say the family members do not currently have symptoms of Ebola, which include fever above 100.5 degrees, headache, nausea, diarrhea or abdominal pain. The order will continue until at least Oct. 19.
Area school have also been scrubbed down to try to mitigate the spread.
According to Yahoo News,
The entire apartment complex is being power washed today. On top of that, a cleaning crew has been contracted to go into the family's home and disinfect all of the surfaces that the patient could have possibly touched, Jenkins said during a CDC-hosted press call this afternoon. He said that the man's clothes and sheets have been "bagged."
"We have delivered several days of food to those people in that apartment. those people in that apartment are part of Dallas County and they are going to be treated with the utmost respect in this unusual situation," Jenkins said at a later press conference today.
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