Judge temporarily blocks disposal of tainted ash

Published October 13, 2014 9:51pm ET



NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state judge signed an order Monday temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site.

Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order to stop the soot from linen, bedding and carpet taken from the Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan first got sick from being brought east. The items were destroyed Friday at the Veolia Environmental Services incinerator in Port Arthur, Texas.

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