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Update: Dallas deputy tests negative for Ebola

Update: Dallas deputy tests negative for Ebola

An earlier version of this story appeared on The Daily Campus online.

Sgt. Michal Monning of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office has tested negative for Ebola, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced Thursday.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital said that Monning is currently in good condition and that he is not showing typical symptoms of the virus.

Monning did not come in direct contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, patient zero in the Ebola case who died Wednesday.

According to WFAA, Monning did however accompany health officials Zachary Thompson and Christopher Perkins into the apartment Duncan was staying at in Dallas. He went in to gain a quarantine order, but did not wear any protective gear.

Monning’s son, Logan Monning, said that his father had monitored his temperature since last week. When he started feeling stomach pains and fatigue, he chose to go to CareNow.

“He spent very little time in the apartment, and he did not come in contact with Mr. Duncan or any bodily fluids,” Logan Monnig told the Dallas Morning News. “We’re just waiting for the facts right now to make sure he’s OK.”

Emergency responders transported Monning from a CareNow facility in Frisco Texas to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Wednesday because he was exhibiting “signs and symptoms of Ebola,” the WFAA reported.

According to Christopher Dyer, with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Association, Monning was feeling sick to his stomach before he arrived at CareNow.

The 14 doctors, staff and people in the lobby of CareNow were all evaluated and later released.

According to The Dallas Morning News, the ambulance that transported Monning is being decontaminated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

Health officials are still monitoring the 48 people confirmed to be in some degree of contact with Duncan. None of these 48 people have reported any symptoms of Ebola.

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