FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Suburban Dallas officials say a sheriff's deputy who went into the apartment where the first U.S. Ebola patient had stayed is hospitalized "out of an abundance of caution" after falling ill.

Frisco officials say Sgt. Michael Monnig was transported Wednesday after an urgent care facility reported a patient "exhibiting signs and symptoms" of Ebola claimed to have had contact with the man diagnosed with the disease in Dallas.

Federal and state health officials say there's no indication that Monnig had any direct contact with Thomas Eric Duncan - the first American diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. on September 28. Duncan died from the illness this morning at Dallas’s Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

Frisco Fire Chief Mark Piland says Monnig entered the apartment where Duncan had been staying and had contact with some members of the family that lived there.

Health officials say none of the family members have exhibited symptoms and wouldn't have been contagious.

It will take up to 48 hours to get test results back to determine if Monnig tests positive for the Ebola virus.

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