The House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the Ebola virus in Dallas, Texas, the location of the only known U.S. case of the disease.
Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, announced Tuesday the panel will hold the hearing on Oct. 10 at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and will “examine the coordinated federal, state and local response to the Ebola case in Dallas, Texas.”
The witness list has not been announced but it is likely to include Dallas health officials and a representative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both have come under heavy criticism after it was learned the Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, was allowed to go home from a Dallas hospital after showing up with a fever and telling a nurse he had come from Liberia.
Duncan is now in critical condition at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and health officials are monitoring several people who came into contact with including a homeless man who may have been exposed to Duncan’s illness who briefly went missing.
