Questions are being asked in the US about how the ebola virus managed to break out of hospital quarantine in Dallas, where a health worker who treated Thomas Duncan, who died last week, has fallen ill.<br /><br />The newly-infected person’s home has been disinfected and anyone who has had contact is being traced.<br /><br />“We’re going to spray a chemical to help kill, or that will kill everything that it touches exactly,” said HazMat cleaner Brad Smith.<br /><br />In faraway Massachusetts a hospital is monitoring the condition of a man who has been admitted after recently returning from Liberia with ebola-like symptoms.<br /><br />The media is starting to worry that fortress America has been breached, and the authorities in Texas are furiously denying they have failed to correctly apply medical protocols.<br /><br />JFK airport in New York has begun screening arrivals from ebola-hit countries despite most experts warning only screening at point of departure is effective.<br /><br />Chicago, Washington, and Atlanta airports will follow suit.
