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Texas governor Rick Perry reveals children from FOUR different schools have been exposed and 18 Americans could be infected
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 in a 'serious but stable condition
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 custodial staff as an added precaution
Other children were taken out of one Dallas school by concerned parents
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
