DALLAS: Health officials in Texas were monitoring 100 people on Thursday for signs of Ebola and ordered four close family members to stay home as authorities investigate the first confirmed US case of the deadly disease. The patient, who was identified in US media as Thomas Eric Duncan, traveled from Liberia to Texas, where he was diagnosed earlier this week. Duncan did not have a fever when he departed Liberia on September 19, said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Tom

Frieden.

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