Five children in four Dallas schools may have been exposed to the Ebola virus.
They are all at home now, being observed.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-ebola-patient-exposed-school-age-children-governor/story?id=25885934
Five school-aged children in Texas may have been exposed to Ebola by the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States, officials said today.
The children had contact with the patient and are being monitored at home, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said today in a press conference.
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The country's top medical official who has vowed to stop Ebola "in its tracks" in the U.S., conceded today that it's "not impossible" that others will contract the disease.
The five students who were in contact with the patient went to four different schools earlier in the week, but had no symptoms, officials said. Extra health workers and custodians will be on hand at those schools plus another nearby school that none of the children attended. The schools include three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school, officials said.
"The students didn’t have any symptoms so the odds of them passing on any sort of virus is very low," said Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles, adding that he learned of the students’ possible exposure Wednesday morning.
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