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Health officials in Texas are now saying that the man who has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus came into contact with as many as 80 people. This represents a major leap from the previous estimate of possible exposures, which had the number pegged at 18.
Additionally, four members of the man’s family have been functionally placed on house arrest for the next two weeks due to their possible exposure as well.
42-year-old Thomas Eric Duncan had traveled to Liberia last month, and last week began showing symptoms consistent with Ebola. He was actually sent home from a Dallas-area hospital on September 26 and remained there (still sick) for two days before his nephew called the Centers for Disease Control and alerted them to his uncle’s illness.
According to his nephew, Duncan is “still in pain. He's doing all right. He's a fighter. I think our prayers, all together, will help him pull through.”
[via Huffington Post]
