DALLAS (AP) — A hazardous-materials crew is expected to return today to a Texas apartment where the first man diagnosed with Ebola in the United States had stayed.
A city spokeswoman says Dallas officials are waiting for a permit to allow hazardous material taken from the home to be transported along state highways for disposal.
A cleanup crew hired by the county and state arrived yesterday evening to assess the job, but didn’t complete it.
The crew is expected to collect bed sheets and towels used by the infected man before he was hospitalized.
The family living in the apartment has been confined there under armed guard while they are monitored by public health officials. It’s part of an intense effort to contain the deadly disease before it can gain a foothold in the United States.
Louise Troh shares the apartment with her 13-year-old son and two nephews. She says she’s tired of being quarantined.
The family will have to be relocated before the cleanup can begin. The director of the Centers for Disease Control, Tom Frieden (FREE’-den), told ABC’s “Good Morning America” today that “the challenges are real,” but that he’s “confident that we will get it sorted out today.”
The first Ebola diagnosis in the nation has raised concerns about whether the disease that has killed 3,300 people in West Africa could spread in the U.S. Federal health officials say they are confident they can keep it in check.
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APPHOTO TXMO102: A young man retrieves supplies left on the front stoop of an apartment where an Ebola infected man had stayed at The Ivy Apartments complex in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Dallas city officials asked the family who resides at the apartment to remain in their home. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (3 Oct 2014)
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