Ebola quarantine for 48 ends today

WASHINGTON – The first wave of 48 people, including the fiancée of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan, will emerge from a state-ordered, 21-day Ebola quarantine today, which should probably spark relief in a region that desperately wants to escape the shadow of the disease.

But church officials are considering extra security for Louise Troh and her sons, and at the children’s school, as fears linger about Ebola across the Dallas-Fort Worth area – and throughout the United States.

Troh issued a statement Sunday thanking the community for its support and asking for privacy as she and her family monitor their health.

“We are so happy this is coming to an end, and we are so grateful that none of us has shown any sign of illness,” she wrote in the statement, which also mourned her fiancé, Duncan.