US family exposed to Ebola victim ‘doing well’
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THE family who shared an apartment with a Liberian man who died of Ebola in the United States state of Texas is showing no signs of illness, while the dog of a nurse who contracted the deadly virus is healthy and being cared for, Dallas’s mayor said yesterday.
Thomas Eric Duncan’s girlfriend, her 13-year-old son and two nephews in their 20s had been living with Duncan before he was admitted to a Dallas hospital on September 28.
“So far no signs of the virus in any of them,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said on CNN. “We check them twice a day, and everybody’s healthy.”
Rawlings said none of the other people being monitored after contact with Duncan, who died on October 8, have fallen ill. There is a 21-day incubation period for the virus that has killed at least 4,400 people, predominantly in West Africa.
Federal health officials are working round the clock at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Rawlings said, as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tries to determine how 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham became infected while caring for Duncan in an isolation ward where he was treated for 11 days.
Pham’s dog, a King Charles Spaniel is being cared for in isolation, the mayor said.
Officials said they don’t know how the virus infected Pham, who wore protective gear while caring for Duncan. She is the first person known to have contracted Ebola in the US.
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