DALLAS (AP) — A decontamination crew has completed its work at a Dallas apartment where an Ebola patient stayed prior to his hospitalization.
The hazardous materials crew removed about 140 barrels filled with items taken from the apartment, including bed sheets, towels and three mattresses used by Thomas Eric Duncan before he was hospitalized.
Most everything taken from the apartment will be destroyed but some personal items were saved for the family of four living there. The family was moved by authorities to another location Friday.
Duncan, who traveled to Dallas from Liberia last month, had been staying in the apartment before being diagnosed last week. He’s currently being treated with an experimental drug at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. His condition was downgraded to critical over the weekend, but the hospital describes him today as stable.
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APPHOTO TXMO109: A hazardous material cleaner removes a wrapped item from the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed last week, in Dallas, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Duncan has been hospitalized at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sept. 28. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (5 Oct 2014)
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