Ebola In Dallas Texas: Delay In Cleaning Up The Isolation Center Due To Fear Of Infection By Workers

Ebola victim evacuated from the apartment to Isolation centre by Health Workers

We have just gathered information concerning the first incident of Ebola break-out in Dallas Texas, and accordig to reports, since the diagnosis that confirmed the incident of Ebola on the Liberian that arrived the US a week ago, there hasn't been anyone who had accepted to take up the task and clean up the house where the ebola victim is kept in isolation, owing to the alleged fear that one may get infested with the deadly EVD.

It is now said that that the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been sanitized and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home. County officials visited the apartment without protection on Wednesday night. As it stands now, the officials said that it's been very difficult to find any contractor who will manage and take care of cleaning up the place for the time being, therefore they've decided to hire a firm that would oversee to the proper care of the place as soon as possible.

Even though the Texas health Minister Dr. David Lakey had earlier informed reporters at an afternoon news conference that officials have been finding it "a little bit of hesitancy" in contracting a firm to man the cleaning and sanitizing of the apartment. The delay came as reports have it that as many as over 100 persons may have had contact with the victim, "Thomas Duncan"  and this news came a after the hospital accepted to have misdiagnosed him when he first arrived at the hospital.

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where Thomas E. Duncan first sought treatment last week but was sent home.

The four family members of Mr Thomas Duncan which include the woman, one of her children and two nephews, are among a handful who have been directed by the authorities to remain in isolation, after what officials said was a failure to comply with an order to stay home. Texas health officials hand-delivered orders to residents of the apartment at the Ivy, a complex north of downtown, requiring them not to leave their home and not to allow any visitors inside until their incubation periods have passed.

The orders, known as communicable disease control orders, are permitted under the state’s health code. Violations could result in criminal prosecution or civil court proceedings. Police cars were stationed at the complex Thursday to keep reporters out and the family in. Officials said they were arranging to have food and other necessities delivered to the apartment.

Zachary Thompson and Christopher Perkins, Dallas County health officials, leaving the home where Thomas E. Duncan stayed

President Obama called the mayor of Dallas, Mike Rawlings, on Thursday from Air Force One, officials said, pledging whatever federal resources were necessary to treat Mr. Duncan and make sure the disease does not spread. State and federal officials sought to reassure local residents that they were doing all that was necessary to contain the virus. But the area remained somewhat on edge, and some parents kept children home from four schools where several students had been removed because of their contact with Mr. Duncan.