A man walks into a clinic (CareNow) in Frisco Texas with Ebola symptoms and reported direct contact with Patient Zero, Thomas Eric Duncan. • Clinic on lockdown. • Dallas Health and CDC in Hazmat suits respond. update-1 • CDC says this patient is not one of 48 contacts being tracked. update-1 • Report the patient is a police officer who was in Eric Duncan’s apartment.  update-1 • Pictures of hospital arrival.  update-1 • Sheriff Deputy Michael Monnig (CBS did an earlier profile on Monnig – here)

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(Initial Media Report) A person in Frisco who may be showing Ebola symptoms and claims to have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who died of the virus Wednesday in Dallas, is being investigated, the city says.
At 12:32 p.m., Frisco dispatch received a call from CareNow in the 300 block of Main Street, regarding a patient who claims to have had contact with Dallas “patient zero” according to Dana Baird the public information officer for the City of Frisco.
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Thomas Eric Duncan, considered “patient zero,” died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
Baird said firefighter-paramedics are in the process of transporting the patient as well as examining clinical staff and patrons of the clinic. Baird said the number of people impacted is unknown. A news conference is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Frisco’s Central Fire Station.  (read more)
Another Media Link HERE (CBS Local)


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