Ebola Worries Have Parents Pull Children From School in Dallas

Four days after Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was hospitalized after earlier being sent away from the ER, some parents removed their children from school because of reports he was in contact with five students.

Duncan was first seen at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on Sept. 26, according to information supplied by the hospital’s front desk. He was sent home from the emergency room with antibiotics even though he told a nurse he had recently been in Africa, hospital officials said yesterday.