Update at 8 a.m.: Officials have announced that a Dallas apartment complex on Marquita Avenue has been decontaminated. We are working to confirm the address.
Neighbors in the area, which is near Greenville Avenue, have been notified that a person with Ebola had been living near them, officials say.
The health worker who has contracted Ebola was not in the group of people public health workers had identified as being at high risk of exposure to Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the United States.
The health care worker had been self-monitoring for signs of the disease and had not come to work for the last two days.
The person’s car was decontaminated and the common area of an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Marquita was cleaned by a hazardous-material team. The team will be cleaning the interior of the apartment Sunday. There is a pet in the apartment.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has confirmed that neighbors in the complex and the neighborhood around it have been notified about the Ebola patient.
Some woman, didn’t catch her name, just now on CNN mentioned that nobody at the other hospitals that received and cared for the 2 Americans flown over here have contracted the virus and that perhaps we should divert any Ebola cases to only certain hospitals which are set up to more readily and safely care for these cases.