Schoolchildren Exposed In US Ebola Scare: Texas Governor Rick Perry Reveals Fears For Kids And Says 18 Americans May Have Virus After Hospital Sent Infected Man Home -- Daily Mail
* Five students attended four different Dallas schools this week after possibly being in close contact with the Ebola patient over the weekend
* The Ebola patient was named today as Thomas Eric Duncan, who had traveled to the U.S. from Liberia on September 20 to visit family
* Mr Duncan, a Liberian national, quarantined at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday
* The children who came in contact with Mr Duncan are showing no symptoms and are now being monitored at home
* The schools are on high alert with additional health and custodia staff as an added precaution
* Mr Duncan arrived in U.S. on September 20 - after flying from Liberia via Brussels in Belgium - but did not develop symptoms until September 24
* He attended Texas Health Presbyterian on September 26 - but was dismissed with antibiotics and 'not asked details about his travel history'
* Mr Duncan may have contracted Ebola while helping carrying his landlord's seriously ill daughter to hospital in Liberia. She died the next day
Schoolchildren in Texas may be at risk from Ebola today after five children who attend four different Dallas schools came in close contact with the first patient diagnosed with the deadly virus on U.S. soil.
Officials said on Wednesday that the students were in school this week after possibly being in contact with the patient over the weekend when he had become contagious.
The Ebola patient was named today as Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who had traveled to the U.S. from Liberia on September 20 to visit family.
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