Disaster Declaration Planned for Ebola: Those who cared for Duncan ordered to restrict travel

KXAS-TV ^ | October 15, 2014 | Frank Heinz

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Dallas County Commissioners will hold a special meeting Thursday to declare a disaster over "the potential for widespread or severe damage, injury, loss or threat of life resulting from the Ebola virus."

The declaration could help officials impose new travel restrictions on health care workers who may have cared for the first Dallas Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Dallas County Medical Director Dr. Christopher Perkins will sign a control order that will follow the minimum guidelines outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, blocking those being monitored for Ebola symptoms from using public transportation, including buses and airliners....

[Marie]

I would *never* inflict myself on my family if there was a possibility of exposure. I’d go to a hotel for three weeks

[Windflier]

isn’t this the goofball who went into the contaminated apartment and then drove the family to a house in a gated community?

Yep. One and the same.