Worries over for some in US
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AFTER weeks on watch lists, worries were over for dozens of people in the United States yesterday after they learned they had been cleared for Ebola.
However, many more are still being monitored after potential exposure to the virus, Texas health officials said.
Forty-three people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the disease in the US, were cleared overnight after 21 days of showing no symptoms, the state health department said, while another 120 were still on watch lists.
The end of monitoring for some could help ease widespread anxiety over Ebola in the US, where some lawmakers have called for a travel ban from West Africa to help control the spread of the virus.
Duncan, who had been visiting family in Dallas, was treated in the city’s Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
He died on October 8.
Meanwhile, the European Union has committed itself to step up efforts toward getting 1 billion euros (US$1.27 billion) in aid to fight Ebola in West Africa and rejected the idea of halting direct flights from the region.
British Prime Minister David Cameron wants a two-day summit of the 28 EU leaders this week to reach a US$1.27 billion aid threshold, agreeing on a variety of topics from more financial aid to common repatriation procedures, more Ebola treatment facilities and better training for health care workers.
In Spain, officials said nursing assistant Teresa Romero appears to have beaten Ebola but won’t be considered virus-free until she is tested again today. She was among those treating a Spanish missionary who died on September 25.
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