And ill talk to the white mother of a biracial toddler whos suing the sperm bank for mistakingly giving them the sperm of a black donor. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Tonight, Health Officials 234 the dallas area are working to locate 80100 people who may have come direct or secondary contact with the ebola patient. Meanwhile, four people duncan was staying with in the dallas area who were with him at the time he became ill are now quarantined inside the department they shared. The sheets, dirty towels and clothes worn by duncan remain in the apartment with those four people who had close contact with him. Officials are working to get the apartment cleaned. We had some hedging issues that a that we are addressing in that apartment. This is a fluid situation. We have a contractor. There are protocol that is have to be followed to clean and to take care of the things that need to be taken care of in there. Texas Health Officials have placed the four residents under
All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Tonight, Health Officials 234 the dallas area are working to locate 80100 people who may have come direct or secondary contact with the ebola patient. Meanwhile, four people duncan was staying with in the dallas area who were with him at the time he became ill are now quarantined inside the department they shared. The sheets, dirty towels and clothes worn by duncan remain in the apartment with those four people who had close contact with him. Officials are working to get the apartment cleaned. We had some hedging issues that we are addressing in that apartment. This is a fluid situation. We have a contractor. There are protocol that is have to be followed to clean and to take care of the things that need to be taken care of in there. Texas Health Officials have placed the four residents under quarantine after Officials Say they ignored requests not to leave the apartment. According to the order which is legally binding, they will not
Equipment. Everyone here is hyper alert. We havent been in close promise s proximity. Were being hyper vigilant were at very low risks of becoming ill. Also this morning theres new information about how Thomas Eric Duncan was initially sent home from a dallas hospital. The hospital says he told the nurse he had not been around anyone ill. He said the same thing before boarding a plane to leave liberia days earlier even though as nbc news reported duncan helped and carried a pregnant woman who died of ebola. Theyll prosecute duncan for lying on an airport questionnaire. Charles is joining us outside the hospital. What is the hospital saying about duncans first visit there and where are authorities in tracking down those with bhom he had contact. Hi. It was a week ago today that eric duncan came to the hospital seeking treatment for abdominal pain and severe headache. Why he wasnt kept overnight and observed for ebola at that time is a very good question. But the hospital has been invest
You cant come into personal contact without having the proper protective equipment. Funerals are another way as well as preparing the bodies and the customs, the longrange traditions that go with the funerals. The mechanism of transmission, direct contact with body fluids explains what is going on in the west african countries. You are convinced no significant outbreak in the u. S. . The reason i say that let me reiterate it. The reason there is an outbreak now is because the Health Care Infrastructure and system in those countries is inadequate and uncapable of actually handling the kind of identification, isolation, rapid treatment, protection of the people who are coming into contact and Contact Tracing. Thats something that we have very, very well established here. So we have a case now and it is entirely conceivable there may be another case but its the reason we feel confident is that our structure, our ability to do those things would preclude an outbreak. Let me just take this
The cameraman was just hired on tuesday. He had been working on the ground in liberia for three years prior to that. Again, he is an american. Hes reported to have come down with symptoms of ebola yesterday, on wednesday, at which point nbc news says he immediately quarantined himself and sought medical attention. Earlier this morning, he was given a blood test to test for the presence of the ebola virus. Within less than 12 hours, that blood test came back positive. Nbc news is not disclosing the name of this freelance photojournalist at the request of his family. We know that hes 33 years old. Hes an american. He had been working on the ground in liberia for several years and was recently covering the ebola outbreak. But his diagnosis today makes him the fourth american known to have contracted ebola who will be flown to the u. S. For treatment. Now, all of the others that we know of contracted it, also, while in liberia. And like the three previous cases involving americans, two doc