US Ebola Patient's Friends Quarantined At Home Under Armed Guard -- The Guardian
Girlfriend and her family are forced to remain in quarantine as officials admit they failed to clean apartment where sufferer was staying
Four members of a household with whom the US Ebola patient had been staying were confined to their Dallas apartment under armed guard on
Thursday as authorities faced tough questions over a series of mis-steps in their handling of the case.
Towels and sweat-ridden bedclothes remained for two days in the Dallas apartment where an undiagnosed Ebola sufferer – Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan – was staying because health officials in Texas struggled to find a waste management company willing to accept them.
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AFRICA
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