On Thursday, October 16, 2014 the Rock Island-Milan School District announced that a Rock Island High School student has recently had a family member arrive from Liberia. Taking abundant precaution, the Rock Island County Health Department will be monitoring the student at home for 21 days. The student will not be attending school for this period of time.
Also noted in the announcement was that the county health department said there appears to be no risk of Ebola to the community.
The student’s isolation comes just days after an Augustana College employee was sent home from work after having been in contact with a family member who recently arrived from Liberia.
Rock Island County Health Department Public Health Director Theresa Berg later confirmed the student and the Augustana employee were both family members of the person who recently traveled to the Quad Cities from Liberia.