Ebola: Panic as US quarantines 81 Suspects

According to new reports, the dreaded Ebola Virus has left the shore of Africa and its believed to be spreading like wild fire in the United Sates Of America.

Reports reveals that at least 81 people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, a former chauffeur, from Liberia to the US on September 20 in Dallas, a major city in Texas, United States, where he was first diagnosed. Speaking at the US Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, Obama announced a comprehensive plan to tackle the endemic, which involves the construction of 17 treatment centres with 100 bed facilities each. Some 500 health care workers will also be trained weekly. “Faced with this outbreak, the world is looking to us, the United States, and it is a responsibility that we embrace. We are prepared to take leadership on this, to provide the type of capabilities that only America has and mobilize our resources in ways that only America can do,’’ Obama had said. It was reveled that Some school-age children have been in contact with the Ebola patient, but the students haven’t exhibited symptoms of the deadly virus, authorities said. Five students at four different schools came into contact with the man, Dallas Superintendent Mike Miles said. The children are being monitored at home, and the schools they attended remain open, he said. Paramedics who transported the patient to the hospital have been isolated, Rawlings’ chief of staff said. They have not shown symptoms of the disease so far, Frieden said. It was not exactly clear how Duncan knew the students, but his sister said he had been visiting with family, including two nephews