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
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- 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 ...
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