The Dallas Ebola Outbreak Is About to Be Officially Over

Assuming there are no terrible surprises in the next 24 hours,
the Dallas Ebola outbreak is officially coming to an end, according
to the Texas
Department of State Health Services:

The last person being monitored in connection
with the state’s three diagnosed Ebola patients will be cleared
from twice-daily monitoring by the end of the day Friday after
reaching the 21-day mark, the longest incubation period for the
disease.

No additional cases of the disease have been diagnosed in
Texas.

A total of 177 people—a mix of health care workers, household
contacts and community members—have been monitored over time
because they had contact with at least one of the three Texas Ebola
patients, specimens or medical waste. The last person being
monitored Friday is a hospital worker who handled medical waste
Oct. 17….

Texas also recently cleared the people who were being monitored in
Texas because they were passengers on one of the Dallas-Cleveland
flights that carried a Dallas health care worker before she was
diagnosed with Ebola.

In less happy news, there is a
new outbreak in a part of Sierra Leone where doctors thought
the disease had been contained.