Dozens taken off US Ebola watch list

Weeks of  worry about possible Ebola infection ended on Monday for several dozen people who have now come off the watch list in the United States. However, 120 others are still being monitored for symptoms as the US Government intensifies its response to the virus. 
    
The Texas Health Department announced that 43 people who had contact with Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the disease in the United States, were cleared of twice-daily monitoring, after showing no symptoms during a 21-day incubation period. They included four persons who shared an apartment with Mr. Duncan and had been in quarantine. 
    
While only three persons have been diagnosed with the disease in the United States, the end of  monitoring for some could ease widespread anxiety over Ebola in the country, where some lawmakers have called for a ban on travel to and from West Africa, to check the spread of the virus.