A Dallas Sheriff's deputy has been put into quarantine with ebola symptoms.
He was inside the apartment that Duncan was in, but did not have direct contact with Duncan.
They won't know for sure for 48 hrs.
It usually takes a while for any infection to spread, it is not like one person becomes ill and 2 days after 100 others are sick .
Maine a few years ago had a cluster of children with some infection that took just one sharp eyed Doctor to wonder about the source. The kids were ill and being brought in to be treated by 4-5 different Doctors that treated them no questions asked.
Fortunately a female Doctor who was up from NYC to cover for a friend on vacation and new to the area with NEW EYES on the community was curious about the source of the infection that was not unheard of but the number of kids getting the disease was odd for the area.
She on her own contacted the CDC with her questions. It took months before the CDC sent anyone up to check on this and when they came she received a backlash from not just the medical community but the Town movers and shakers.
Some how he CDC tracked the problem to a very large family of African resettled residents that had one adult in their family return from a visit to their homeland. It was never published if the male in question was a carrier, not ill themselves but able to pass the disease onto others. [ AKA Typhoid Mary ] This is a big problem with infectious diseases, some may not be able to have some kind of immunity to the disease but still be able to spread it to others.
The cost to the town and the State was huge, the entire school had to be sanitized from top to bottom. Parents of the attending children, teachers an staff them selves having family did not want this brought home to their family's.
