The 21-day quarantine period for those in contact with initial Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan ended Monday morning, with none of the forty quarantined showing signs for Ebola. As five children who were isolated return to school, Dallas officials held a press conference calling for the community’s help in reintegrated them, and assuring the public that they did not have the virus.

“These people, part of our community, are integrating back into our community,” said Judge Clay Jenkins. “I talked to Louise [Troh, Duncan’s fiancée] last night on the phone. Her feeling for this morning was one of fear. Fear of how she and the young men would be accepted, of how they would be treated, whether they would be seen as disease carriers.”

“There’s zero risk that any of those people who have been marked off the list have Ebola,” Jenkins said. “They were in contact with a person who had Ebola, and the time period for them to get ebola has lapsed. It is over. They do not have Ebola. They are people who have been through an incredible ordeal. They’re people that need our compassion, our respect, our love. Treat them the way you would want your own family treated if you were in their place, and they were in yours.”

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