VIdeo of Nina Pham, the first nurse to have contracted Ebola in the United States.
Notice they say, "Thanks for being a part of the volunteer team to take care of our first Ebola patient."
She is like one of the firemen who climbed the stairs on 9/11.
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"She is like one of the firemen who climbed the stairs on 9/11."
Yes she is.
What does it mean to be on new Ebola restrictions? LATimes 10/17/2014.
Texas health officials are asking 75 healthcare workers who were exposed to the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., Thomas Eric Duncan, to sign a document that outlines restrictions on their travel and movement.
Basically, about all they can do is stay home.
The restrictions include staying off all public transportation, and staying out of public spaces, for 21 days from their last contact with Duncan. They also must have their conditions monitored twice daily, including one face-to-face encounter. The instructions do not stipulate with whom.
They also have been offered a room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, on a non-admission status, if they would help with monitoring.
Those who sign the document also acknowledge that failure to follow the voluntary order could result in a “communicable disease control order.”
A control order includes nearly identical provisions that are mandatory, but includes allowing health authorities to take blood or other samples. Failure to follow the order is considered a Class B misdemeanor under Texas law.
About 238 people are being monitored.
LATimes: Ebola patient's family isolated by fear amid monitoring, confinement
Neighbors watch the apartment door of the Liberian family whose relative died of Ebola, and if someone emerges, adult or child, they run.
It doesn't matter that the man who died, Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, never stayed with the family here, having arrived from West Africa about a week before he was hospitalized.
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When a man from the family leaves to fetch groceries in a minivan, even neighbors from Liberia familiar with the deadly virus shy away.
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The family, relatives of Duncan's fiancee, are not quarantined and have been told they can leave their apartment at will. Two family members, Youngor Jallah and husband Aaron Yah, have stayed home from their jobs at local nursing homes voluntarily without pay. They have four children — ages 2,4, 6 and 11 — and plan to return to work Monday.
They are among 48 people who were being monitored, their temperature taken twice a day for 21 days from their last contact with Duncan when he was admitted at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Sept. 28.
The four people Duncan stayed with at a different apartment, including fiancee Louise Troh, 54, and her 13-year-old son, have been confined to a Dallas house at an undisclosed location by court order.
Their confinement is expected to end Monday, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. One man finished the 21-day monitoring period Friday. By Monday, the remaining 47 will have finished their monitoring period. So far, none has showed symptoms.
Children who are being monitored attend four public schools, and will be able to return to class Tuesday, Jenkins said.
Dallas City Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates, who represents Troh's neighborhood, said she'd heard that even residents who were not being monitored had had rocks thrown at their apartments. Others complained they had been turned away from businesses and their jobs. Gates said officials had contacted schools about increasing security Tuesday.
I don't know if there is a way to compensate for people's hysteria.
- Rev. George Mason, pastor at the Wilshire Baptist Church
Troh's pastor at Wilshire Baptist Church, the Rev. George Mason, said she did not wish to return to her former home, which has been decontaminated, along with her car. He was trying to arrange for a new apartment in her old neighborhood. "That's where she lives and feels comfortable and where her people are," he said.
On Friday, he was also arranging for security for the next few months, concerned that Troh might be harassed.
.....Reached Friday, Troh said she wasn't sure when she would leave confinement. When she does, she said, she should not be treated like a
"I would like to go home and cry for my husband, to have my own private time," she said, referring to Duncan.
Once she leaves confinement, she noted, she will not be "subject to orders" and neighbors should not monitor her.
"Why should they be watching my door? Why would they have problems with good people because of Ebola? We do not have Ebola," she said.
Jallah, Troh's daughter, speaks with her by phone daily and visited her last week, keeping a safe distance. "I told her we should pray to God that we should be together at the end of the 21 days," Jallah said.
Jallah, 35, and Yah, 43, have been stigmatized not just by neighbors, but by landlords and businesses.
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When household breadwinners are confined for some 21 days, how do the bills get paid?
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