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   DALLAS -- About 120 people are now being monitored for possible   
   infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one   
   of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health   
   officials said Monday.   
      
   Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have   
   passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral   
   disease and are now in the clear.   
      
   But others who cared for a Liberian man who died Oct. 8 at a   
   Dallas hospital remain at risk, along with two nurses he   
   infected and their close contacts. That brings the total to 120   
   people now being monitored, with their wait period ending Nov.   
   7, said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. He said the number may   
   fluctuate.   
      
   Clay Jenkins, the top administrator for Dallas County, said he   
   was unaware that other health officials had allowed one of the   
   nurses, Amber Vinson, onto an airplane the day before she was   
   diagnosed. Vinson had contacted the Centers for Disease Control   
   and Prevention and Dallas County, and she was given permission   
   to fly home to Dallas after visiting family in Ohio.   
      
   "It was a mistake" for Vinson to have flown "and we apologize,"   
   Jenkins said during a news conference Monday morning.   
      
   Still, health officials said they were breathing a little easier   
   Monday as the monitoring period ended for many, and after a   
   cruise ship scare ended with the boat returning to port and a   
   lab worker on board testing negative for the virus.   
      
   Among those no longer in isolation are the family and friends   
   who were hosting Thomas Eric Duncan before he was diagnosed with   
   Ebola. The Liberian man - who became the first person diagnosed   
   with Ebola in the U.S. - died from the disease Oct. 8 at Texas   
   Health Presbyterian Hospital.   
      
   "I want to breathe, I want to really grieve, I want privacy with   
   my family," Louise Troh, whose family had been hosting Duncan   
   before he became ill, told The Associated Press.   
      
   The incubation period also has passed for many health workers   
   who encountered Duncan when he went to the Dallas hospital for   
   the first time, on Sept. 25. Duncan was sent home, but then   
   returned by ambulance and was admitted on Sept. 28. Two nurses   
   who treated him during that second visit - Vinson and Nina Pham -   
    are now hospitalized with Ebola.   
      
   On Sunday, a Carnival Cruise Lines ship returned to Galveston,   
   Texas, from a seven-day trip marred by worries over a health   
   worker on board who was being monitored for Ebola. The lab   
   supervisor had handled a specimen from Duncan and isolated   
   herself on the ship as a precaution, though she later tested   
   negative for Ebola. About 4,000 passengers on the cruise had to   
   miss a stop in Cozumel, Mexico, where the boat was not allowed   
   to dock because of the scare.   
      
   Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and   
   Infectious Diseases, said those caring for Duncan were   
   vulnerable because some of their skin was exposed.   
      
   The CDC is working on revisions to safety protocols. Earlier   
   ones, Fauci said, were based on a World Health Organization   
   model for care in remote places, often outdoors, and without   
   intensive training for health workers.   
      
   "So there were parts about that protocol that left   
   vulnerability, parts of the skin that were open," Fauci said.   
      
   Health officials had previously allowed hospitals some   
   flexibility to use available covering when dealing with   
   suspected Ebola patients. The new guidelines are expected to set   
   firmer standards: calling for full-body suits and hoods that   
   protect worker's necks; setting rigorous rules for removal of   
   equipment and disinfection of hands; and requiring a "site   
   manager" to supervise the putting on and taking off of equipment.   
      
   The guidelines also are expected to require a "buddy system" in   
   which workers check each other as they come in and go out,   
   according to an official who was familiar with the guidelines   
   but not authorized to discuss them before their release.   
      
   The Pentagon announced Sunday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel   
   had ordered the formation of a 30-person military support team   
   to assist civilian medical professionals in the U.S. to treat   
   Ebola. The team won't be sent overseas, and will "be called upon   
   domestically only if deemed prudent by our public health   
   professionals," Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby   
   said in a statement.   
      
   While experts agree that current research will not result in an   
   Ebola "cure" for this outbreak, scientists and startups around   
   the globe are racing to find a marketable treatment.   
      
   http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-outbreak-120-people-now-being-   
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