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    So close to Ebola, yet Dallas household stayed well By SHERRY JACOBSON sjacobson@dallasnews.com

    Staff Writer
    Published: 27 September 2015 11:16 PM
    Updated: 28 September 2015 01:24 PM

    After he became sick from the Ebola virus, Thomas Eric Duncan shared brief hugs with five people, a residence with four people and a bed with one person ? even as his condition steadily worsened.
    None of those people knew that his illness would be fatal and that they could easily become infected. Ebola had never been diagnosed in the United States before Duncan brought the virus to Dallas a year ago.
    A scientific report, published last summer, mentions these unidentified people as being among Duncan?s 17 contacts in the Dallas area. None of them got sick, not even the three people designated as ?high risk? for an Ebola infection.
    For five days, Duncan, a visitor from Liberia, was getting sicker and sicker in the northeast Dallas apartment. None of them wore protective clothing or followed the strict protocols designed to stop Ebola?s transmission.
    This remains one of the lingering mysteries about Dallas? Ebola outbreak. A year later, no scientific study has tackled this conundrum, explaining in any detail what happened when Ebola struck inside a Dallas household...
    Turns out that Louise Troh is in the health care field and has training in infection control that she takes very seriously and she used that training and determination to protect herself and other household members. Also this likely prevented and escalation of the whole situation as far as further impact on the health care system and public anxiety.
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