It's been a stressful day for the people that live in the neighborhood of the second Ebola patient, who was confirmed to have the disease Sunday.
The concern is palpable. Many woke up to robo calls from the City that a neighbor on their street had contracted Ebola. Also, the hazmat crew arrived around 3 p.m. to begin decontaminating the nurse's apartment.
"We're told they will start by cleaning the outside of the building today, and tomorrow they'll return to decontaminate the inside," said one neighbor. "We know that nurse has a dog and that dog is still inside the apartment. Lately we've learned that it may be possible for dogs to carry and spread the Ebola virus."
The hazmat crew says the SPCA will handle that job and they will handle theirs -- just as they did with the cleanup of Thomas Eric Duncan's apartment.
"We've made every effort to have everything we need. We've been at other hospitals doing cleaning," said Brad Smith of CG Environmental. "This is what we do, so we're prepared."
Smith said the first step is to do cleaning on the outside, including atomizing and spraying chemicals on areas that could have been touched and contaminated.
This afternoon we also saw Dallas County Health Director, Zach Thompson, go door-to-door in this neighborhood. He had door hangers with information about Ebola, how it's spread, and how difficult it is to contract it.
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