CDC Quarantine Office In Miami Is One Of 20 Nationwide
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Officials in Texas worked to monitor the people possibly exposed to an Ebola virus patient as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed what the response to an airline passenger with an infectious disease such as Ebola would be like in South Florida.
The CDC quarantine office in inside the Miami International Airport, is one of 20 nationwide and 18 of those are at airports where international travel is the highest.
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If a passenger were to exhibit symptoms of Ebola, he or she would be taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, the hospital that is equipped to handle an Ebola patient.
"Major airports like Los Angeles, San Francisco, of course here in Miami, you need to have them," said passenger Law Lim.
"It's good that they have it," another passenger explained. "I just wish we didn't have to."
A second person, a freelance cameraman with NBC News named Ashoka Mukpo, who has tested positive for Ebola is set to arrive in the United States for treatment. His diagnosis was confirmed in Liberia.
"Of course he's very, very frightened, but he's also, his spirits are relatively good, and we've been able to reassure him," said his mother, Diana Mukpo.
In Dallas, hazmat crews entered the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan as staying before testing positive for the virus.
Those crews removed bed sheets with Duncan's bodily fluids.
Four people who live at the apartment had contact with Duncan are in quarantine being watched by an armed guard.
They will be monitored for weeks, but are currently not showing symptoms.
50 other people who had direct and indirect contact with Duncan will also be monitored for the full 21-day incubation period.
None of them currently have symptoms, but ten are listed as high risk.
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