UPDATE 10/16: Belton ISD has additionally closed three campuses on Friday, October 17th, to facilitate additional cleaning and precautionary decontamination. See the press release, below.
Belton ISD sent an email to parents Wednesday evening at 8:57pm informing them of a change in the attendance status of two district students that were on the Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas that also carried the nurse now being treated for Ebola.
Belton ISD officials are saying two students that shared a flight with the nurse now being treated for the Ebola virus at a Dallas hospital will be allowed back in school tomorrow. Hear the complete press conference here.
We have updated this, our original post on the Ebola connection in the Belton Independent School District, to reflect new details that have come to light and new events that have transpired since we initially reported the story on October 15. Please continue to check in as new details unfold.
Though #Nigeria has no current case of #Ebola,@NavarroCollege is denying admission to Nigerians. pic.twitter.com/aRekeGRVRu cc @nytimes
— Idris Ayodeji Bello (@idrisayobello) October 12, 2014
Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas is making headlines, but they're not pleasant ones.
A second health care worker who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has contracted the Ebola Virus and has been quarantined within Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas, according to health officials.
A second health worker at Dallas Presbyterian Health Hospital was diagnosed with Ebola on Wednesday morning. Apparently the nurse had traveled by air from Cleveland on Monday.
DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Department of State Health Services says that a second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the disease.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Members of a Texas task force on Ebola have scheduled their first public hearing as a nurse who contracted the disease remains hospitalized in Dallas.