Ebola patient in critical condition in Texas hospital 
 
 Although he believes Ebola is contained in Texas, where Liberian man Thomas Eric Duncan first showed symptoms of the virus after traveling to the U.S., an infectious disease expert at the National Institutes of Health says it's "absolutely" possible that one of Duncan's contacts will get sick in the coming days. 
 
 "I would not be surprised if one of the people who came into direct contact with Mr. Duncan when he was ill will get Ebola. You can't say. You can't put a number on it. It's impossible to do that. But there certainly is a risk," Dr. Anthony Fauci who heads up the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. 
 
 Duncan took a turn for the worse Saturday and is now in critical condition at the Dallas hospital that is treating him. 
 
 Despite the possibility that another person may contract Ebola, Fauci said he believes the situation in Dallas has been contained because procedures to prevent an outbreak such as tracing Duncan's contacts have been implemented. But he acknowledged that the case was not handled well from the start: the hospital initially sent Duncan home after he sought treatment for fever and abdominal pain from the hospital. 
 
 "Hopefully, this will be lessons learned so that emergency room and clinic docs throughout the country, when they have someone come in and say they have symptoms compatible with Ebola, you ask them, 'Have you been to West Africa?' And if they are, then you trigger the protocol," he said. 
 
 Does the government have the right strategy to contain Ebola? 
 
 Dr. John LaPook, CBS News' chief medical correspondent, said that the hospitals' fumbling of the case "undermines the public's confidence" that the virus will not spread. 
 
 But, he said, "This is not Africa. There is 40 years of experience with a couple of dozen of previous Ebola outbreaks in Africa. And they've all been successfully handled... this is not the time for magical thinking. This is the time to believe in science." 
 
 One lawmaker, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, has sounded the alarm about the virus and suggested, " it's a lot more transmissible" than believed because even health care workers in Africa who are trying to protect themselves have caught Ebola. 
 
 "I don't think that there's data to tell us that that's a correct statement, with all due respect," Fauci said. "We have had experience since 1976 with how Ebola is transmitted. And it is clear that it's transmitted by direct contact with body fluids, blood, diarrhea, vomit, or what have you. And there's no indication that there is another insidious way that it's transmitted that we're missing because of the experience that we've had." 
 
 Noting that Ebola cannot be spread through the air like the flu is, LaPook said, "If this were spread like the flu there would be millions and millions of cases." 
 
 Paul also questioned President Obama's decision to dispatch 3,000 military personnel to West Africa to help combat the spread of the disease, noting that illness spreads quickly on a ship. "I'm sorry, but that's really not a concern," Fauci said. "First of all, the troops that are going over there are going to be fundamentally for logistic purposes, command, control, engineering, setting up the hospitals. They're well trained. They will not be in direct risk in the sense of contact with individuals. And even if they are, the protocols are in place to prevent spread from there. So, I don't and the Army does not have any real concern that those 3,000 to 4,000 are going to be in danger." 
 
 Kevin McCarthy: Ebola outbreak is a global problem 
 
 In a separate interview on "Face the Nation," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, responding to Paul's comments, said, "I think it's right to ask the questions." 
 
 "Now, I'm not a medical expert. I want to listen to the medical experts. But I do not want to ignore the challenge. So, I want to look at making sure this cannot spread," he said. 
 
 He said the way to get to the "core of the problem" is to invest in a vaccine and a treatment so it can be cured "once and for all." 
 
 An experimental drug, ZMapp, was used during the successful treatment of health workers Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol who became infected in August. But the supply has run out. 
 
 Fauci said that there will be more ZMapp, but it is difficult to produce and probably won't be ready for a month and a half to two months from now. 
 
 "We're not going to get it tomorrow or next week," he said. 
 
 Another vaccine to prevent Ebola is in the early trial phases at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and that by the end of the year scientists should be able to determine whether its safe. At that point they could move to a larger trial in West Africa. 
 
 McCarthy said Congress can play a role in supplying the necessary funding to fight the virus and develop treatments. 
 
 "Let's not have bureaucracy and red tape slow down in the F.D.A. from any experimental drug that can happen and can cure in Africa," He said. 
 
 As flu season approaches and many people will develop symptoms like headache, fever, aches and pains - common in both flu and Ebola - Fauci urged Americans to think rationally about how Ebola spreads. 
 
 "If you are in Massachusetts now and you get a cold, there's no chance that you have Ebola," he said. "You've gotta really be rational and have the evidence be the major thing that gets you in your decisions and your concerns." ||||| Facebook 
 
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 Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who is the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the U.S., traveled to Dallas to marry his longtime girlfriend and the mother of his 19-year-old son, the pastor of the woman's church told NBC News on Saturday. 
 
 The Rev. George Mason, senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, said the church has been "doing whatever is permitted" to help the woman — who is named Louise and whose last name NBC News is not reporting — and the three children with whom she is in isolation at an undisclosed location in Dallas. "Because of the quarantine, we're limited," Mason said, but he said he's been in regular contact with her by phone and reported: "She's doing better now that they have moved her. The place that they're living in now is much easier now. There's less scrutiny, and it's more private." 
 
 Mason said he hadn't had a chance to meet with Duncan and the woman before they were quarantined, but he said she had told him Duncan came to the U.S. to marry her and to see his son. "That's still a hope that they have," he said. 
 
 Mason confirmed that he sent an email message, obtained by NBC News, alerting his congregation that "sadly, there is a Wilshire connection to the Dallas Ebola case." In the message, he wrote that "we have no reason to believe there has been any exposure of the Ebola virus at Wilshire. None of the family and friends of Mr. Duncan have been present at Wilshire since his arrival in the United States Sept. 20. ... Please join me in praying for God's mercy and peace to fall upon each of them and for God's healing." 
 
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 Now, the 54-year-old Dallas woman faces a new challenge. She has been quarantined because of her contact with the man she shares a son with and planned to marry, Thomas Eric Duncan. He has been confirmed as having Ebola, and the hospital where he’s being cared for today downgraded his condition to critical. 
 
 Troh is worried Duncan may not recover, and that she too may be infected, said George Mason, senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, where Troh worships. 
 
 “She is overwhelmed,” Mason said in an interview yesterday. He has spoken with Troh several times since the ordeal began and is hoping to get permission from health officials to visit her. “It’s a moment by moment, day by day experience,” he said. 
 
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 The church is becoming a focal point of efforts to help Duncan and his close contacts who are currently being quarantined as health workers wait to see if they develop symptoms of the deadly virus. 
 
 Mason made Duncan and Troh a focus of his Sunday service at Wilshire Baptist today. “It seems fitting that it turns out today, throughout the Christian church, is World Communion Day,” Mason told several hundred worshipers at the packed service. 
 
 Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images A hazmat team member arrives to clean a unit at the Ivy Apartments, where the confirmed U.S. Ebola virus patient was staying, in Dallas, Texas, on October 3, 2014. Close A hazmat team member arrives to clean a unit at the Ivy Apartments, where the confirmed... Read More Close Open Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images A hazmat team member arrives to clean a unit at the Ivy Apartments, where the confirmed U.S. Ebola virus patient was staying, in Dallas, Texas, on October 3, 2014. 
 
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 “We are thinking about our connections all throughout the world,” he said, and told congregants that those who want to donate money or other resources to Troh, Duncan or Ebola victims in Africa can give to the church’s general fund and the funds would be steered to those in need. 
 
 “We have a team of people who have cared for and loved this family for quite a while,” Mason said today. “This is not a new thing.” 
 
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 Troh has been moved with three others from her apartment to an undisclosed home provided by another church member. The same day she had the opportunity to speak with Duncan, who is being treated in the intensive care unit at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Mason said. 
 
 “When you love someone, it is not something you can make go away with willpower,” Mason said in yesterday’s telephone interview. “It is something you have to endure.” Asked about the chances Duncan will die, Mason said, “If it comes to that, we will be there to help her and stand beside her.” 
 
 ‘Pain and Loss’ 
 
 Troh, who works at an elder-care facility in the Dallas area, was baptized in June at Wilshire Baptist. The church was founded in 1951 and now has about 3,200 members, said Mason, who has been senior pastor there for 25 years. 
 
 “Louise is a seasoned adult and certainly has plenty of experience with pain and loss,” Mason said. “She lost a child in childbirth not too long ago. She is displaced from her country of origin. She has come to grips with everything as well as she might.” 
 
 Today, the church’s regular service carried a deeper meaning because of the couple’s travails, he said. There has been “many offers to help” pay Duncan’s medical bills, according to Mason. 
 
 Troh was looking forward to having a life with Duncan in the U.S. after reconciling with him following a separation. 
 
 “They had a falling out of some sort,” Mason said. “Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 years ago, she left Liberia for America. Recently, they attempted reconciliation and he intended to marry her.” 
 
 To contact the reporter on this story: Harry R. Weber in Dallas at hweber14@bloomberg.net 
 
 To contact the editors responsible for this story: David Marino at dmarino4@bloomberg.net Drew Armstrong, Bruce Rule
– The Ebola patient who's in critical condition in Dallas traveled there to marry his longtime girlfriend, who's now in quarantine with three children at an undisclosed location, her church's pastor tells NBC News. The pastor, George Mason, says the church has been trying to help the woman, identified by Bloomberg as Louise Troh, as she grapples with fear of the disease and her relationship with fiance Thomas Duncan. "She is overwhelmed," says Mason. "She's doing better now that they have moved her. The place that they're living in now is much easier now. There's less scrutiny, and it's more private." But he admits that his church, Wilshire Baptist, can't do much for her because of the quarantine. It's not her first brush with tragedy, either: After moving to the US from her homeland of Liberia 10 years ago, she lost a baby in childbirth, says Mason. She and Duncan had an earlier child in Liberia, but they "had a falling out of some sort," Mason says, and only recently decided to reconcile. Now Troh worries that Duncan won't recover from Ebola and she too may be infected—which a disease expert tells CBS News is "absolutely" possible. "I would not be surprised" if someone who came in contact with Duncan "will get Ebola," he says. Meanwhile, Mason talked about Troh at Sunday service today and told congregants that donations to the church would to go to helping Duncan, Troh, or Ebola victims in Africa. (Read about an NBC cameraman with Ebola.)