After the revelation that US Ebola patient
had come in contact with about 100
people, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins,
who is coordinating the Ebola response,
said he was 'not happy' that family
members were still quarantined at the
home.
Jenkins said Mr Duncan's sweat-soaked
bedsheets remained inside but were bagged
and in the bedroom with the door closed.
There are currently no plans to move the
family to another location, he added, but
said it was safe for them to remain the
apartment while the sanitization process
took place.
Judge Jenkins, who visited the family on
Thursday, said they are 'understandably
stressed' but being assisted by the CDC - not
just to monitor their temperatures but to
cope with the frightening situation.
A cleaning team arrived at the scene to
sanitize the contaminated apartment
where the Ebola victim's family have been
quarantined under police guard .
His girlfriend Louise Troh, her son
Timothy Wayne, 13, nephew Oliver
Smallwood, 21, and his friend Jeffrey Cole,
have been legally ordered to stay inside
the Dallas apartment where Ebola patient
Thomas Duncan b ecame contagious last
weekend.He is reportedly too ill and weak
to talk at the moment .
The quarantine order, which also bans
visitors, was imposed on Wednesday after
the individuals inside the apartment tried
to leave.
The 13-year-old went to Tasby Middle
School for part of Wednesday, but was sent
home. School officials said again that no
family members were exhibiting Ebola
signs.
There were concerns over the conditions
the family had left in after Mr Duncan's
girlfriend told CNN on Thursday that his
sweat-soaked sheets were still on the bed -
five days after he was taken to hospital
with Ebola symptoms.
The at-risk group includes 12 to 18 people
who had direct contact with the infected
man, including an ambulance crew and a
handful of schoolchildren, she said. The
others came into contact with that core
group.
Thomas Eric Duncan was to wed Louise
Troh in a ceremony which would have
paved the way to him staying in the U.S.
permanently - and escape his native
Liberia.
Mark Wingfield, associate pastor at
Wilshire Baptist Church, told MailOnline:
'Louise told our senior pastor on
Thursday that Mr Duncan had come
to the US to marry her and start a
new life.Those are her words to
describe the situation'.
Until three years ago he had been living in
a refugee camp in Ghana because he was
unable to return home due to a civil war
in Liberia - and on his arrival just about
scraped a living tinkering with cars and
bartering.
Duncan arrived in the U.S. on September
20 and is believed to have come on a
tourist visa in what was his first trip to
America.
Duncan, 42, and Troh, 54, appear to have
a relationship of some king going back
many years and have at least one child
together.
Mailonline
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