As many as 1,000 people in America are under some sort of watch for Ebola and symptoms. Remember just a few days ago when this number was under 100? Also, about 1,000 people come into this country every week from Ebola infected countries. Feel safe yet? So far, none of these thousand or so people have had any Ebola like symptoms.
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As of Friday, a pool of about 1,000 people are being watched for symptoms, have been asked to monitor themselves or have been urged to check with a counselor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The group includes a handful of people who have been ordered into quarantine, a larger group that is being closely watched with temperatures taken at least daily and a much larger group of travelers who may haven flown on a Frontier Airlines jetliner used at some point by an Ebola patient traveling with a low-grade fever.
None of those being monitored, regardless of their group, has exhibited any Ebola symptoms.
Despite those numbers, the fear of Ebola infection has spread from California to Connecticut —places where people have said they had symptoms such as fever or vomiting, prompting official responses such as sending people home or to hospitals for testing. Schools in Texas and Ohio have been been closed, and false alarms have been sounded across the country.
However it is travel-related issues that have come to fore.