Homeland Security Committee meeting reviews response to Ebola case

DALLAS (KGO) -- A hearing was held by the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee chairman in Dallas, Texas on Friday to review the federal, state and local response to the nation's first Ebola case.

U.S. Representative Michael McCaul is holding the hearing at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Among those scheduled to testify before the Central Texas Republican are Dr. David Lakey, the Texas health commissioner, and Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

The hearing comes two days after the death of Thomas Eric Duncan at a Dallas hospital. Duncan was the first person in the U.S. to develop symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus. He died after a weeklong hospitalization.

Thomas Eric Duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room - a fever that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system.

Medical records provided to The Associated Press show that the man who would become the only person to die from Ebola in the U.S. was eventually sent home, despite the fever and other symptoms consistent with the disease, and despite telling a nurse that he had recently been in Africa.

Duncan's family provided his medical records to The Associated Press - more than 1,400 pages in all.

Meanwhile, according to officials at McCarran International Airport, a Delta flight from New York was quarantined Friday morning as a precaution.

Delta Flight #495 from John F. Kennedy Airport landed at McCarran International Airport at about 10:55 a.m. Friday.

The plane was quarantined because it was reported that a passenger on the plane had recently traveled in Africa and had vomited on the airplane.

Clark County Fire Department, the Centers for Disease Control and the Southern Nevada Health District responded to the report.

After a thorough assessment, it was determined that the affected passenger does not meet the criteria for Ebola.

Of course, tweets about the incident began appearing online soon after passengers were delayed from exiting.