The Liberian man hospitalized in Dallas with the Ebola virus remained in critical condition Monday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, as health officials reported that none of the nearly 50 people who may have been exposed to the virus have shown signs of illness.
The director, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, speaking on NBC's 'Today' show, said that the 10 people who have had direct contact with the Ebola patient, Thomas E. Duncan, and 38 others who may have had contact with him have had their temperatures taken daily and have not developed fever or other warning signs of infection.
'The key here is to keep doing that every single day, as Texas is doing excellently - and if they have fever, isolate them to stop the transmission,' Dr. Frieden said. A fever is one of the early signs of the virus.
Mr. Duncan remains in critical condition at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, the authorities said.
On Monday, Ashoka Mukpo, 33, a freelance cameraman working for NBC in Liberia who contracted the virus, arrived in the United States on a specially equipped airplane to receive treatment.
Mr. Mukpo will be treated at the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, which is designed for extremely contagious patients, NBC reported. Another Ebola patient, Dr. Rick Sacra, a missionary from a North Carolina-based charity, was treated there and was later released.
On Sunday, at the apartment where Mr. Duncan had been staying with Louise Troh, his girlfriend, one of her children and two young men, about 20 containers were filled with linens and other items. The four were moved to a temporary home on Friday and remain under orders not to leave the premises.
The containers taken from the house were stored 'in an extremely safe and secure location, and guarded by Dallas County Sheriff's deputies,' said a city spokeswoman, Sana Syed. The potentially contaminated medical waste that has been generated so far at the hospital, like bedsheets, gowns and gloves, has been incinerated.
City and county officials said they also had found a homeless man who was among those being monitored. The man rode in the ambulance that took Mr. Duncan to the hospital, before the vehicle was taken out of service and cleaned. Officials said the man, whom they identified as Michael Lively, had been monitored Saturday and then apparently went into hiding.
Prosecutors in Dallas have said that they are considering whether to bring charges against Mr. Duncan after reports that he had contact with a woman who ended up dying of Ebola in Liberia and later lied about that contact before boarding a plane to the United States.
'We are actively having discussions as to whether or not we need to look into this as it relates to a criminal matter,' Dallas County's district attorney, Craig Watkins, said on 'Lone Star Politics' on the NBC station in Dallas-Fort Worth on Sunday. 'We're working with all the different agencies to get to the bottom of it.'
His spokeswoman said that prosecutors had previously filed aggravated assault charges against people who were H.I.V. positive and knowingly had unprotected sex with others, and that it was possible that the same charge might apply in Mr. Duncan's case.
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