adminIn the Dallas community of Vickery Meadow, a cultural polyglot where about three dozen languages are spoken, the one word on everyone’s lips is “Ebola.”On Sunday, a group of blighted apartments in a section of the neighbourhood favoured by West African immigrants was shaken by screams as one family saw a recently arrived relative being carted away in an ambulance. The man was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. He was last seen by neighbours in the parking lot vomiting on the street.
“I heard about Ebola on the news, but I didn’t know it was right here,” said Juan Pablo Escalante, 43, who is from Mexico.
There is little indication a visitor to the community had been infected with a disease that has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa, in the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
“There’s no notes on the doors. No one came to talk to us. I picked up my kids from school down the street and found out it was this close,” Escalante said on Wednesday.
Dallas County said it would put “boots on the ground” to monitor those who may have been exposed. — Reuters
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