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WEBVTT NEW AT FIVE.. CONCERNS OVER THE EBOLA VIRUS TRIGGER A COMPLAINT FROM ONE IOWA PARENT. THE MOTHER OF A TREYNOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WAS WORRIED ABOUT ANOTHER STUDENT'S PLAN TO GO ON A KETV NEWSWATCH 7'S NICOLE GOODRICH IS TRACKING THIS DEVELOPING STORY. SHE JOINS US ADRIAN, MELISSA.. THE STUDENT IS TRAVELING TO UGANDA, WHICH IS NOT AFFECTED BY THE CURRENT EBOLA OUT BREAK IN WEST AFRICA. A STATEMENT RELEASED BY THE TREYNOR SCHOOL DISTRICT SAYS THAT STUDENT WILL BE SELF- RETURNING FROM A MISSION TRIP. THE WOMAN BEHIND THE COMPLAINT IS HAPPY, BUT STILL TREYNOR IOWA MAY BE FAR FROM THE EBOLA OUTBREAK IN WEST AFRICA...BUT NOW...ITS ON THE FRONT LINES FOR THE GROWING CONCERN OVER THE VIRUS. (Traci Comstock, Treynor Mother, My daughter came home from school and she told me that a family was planning on going on a mission trip and that her classmate would be absent from school for a couple of weeks and they were going to Africa.) TRACI COMSTOCK FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE DISTRICT ONCE SHE HEARD THE STUDENT WOULD BE BACK IN CLASS THE DAY AFTER GETTING HOME...ASKING THAT THE STUDENT BE KEPT FROM SCHOOL FOR THREE WEEKS.(TRACI COMSTOCK Is it probable that contagious disease? We don't know that. But there is a risk in regard to Africa and I think it is too great of a risk right now) CURRENTLY, UGANDA HAS NOT BEEN IMPACTED BY THE EBOLA OUTBREAK IN WEST AFRICA, BUT AS OF OCTOBER 9TH, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REPORTS 1 CASE OF ANOTHER DISEASE SIMILAR..THE MARBURG VIRUS. UGANDA SHARES ITS WESTERN BORDER WITH THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO WHERE THE VIRUS IS NAMED AFTER THE EBOLA RIVER AND WHERE CURRENTLY THE C-D-C SAY THERE ARE MORE THAN SIXTY CASES OF THE VIRUS RIGHT NOW. REPONSE TO COMSTOCK'S COMPLAINT, TREYNOR SCHOOLS RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING IN PART, "WE UNDERSTAND THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CDC ARE NOT DISCOURAGING TRAVEL TO THIS PORTION OF AFRICA AND OUR STUDENT IS CONSIDERED LOW RISK FOR CONTRACTING THE VIRUS ...THE STUDENT'S FAMILY IS PLANNING TO VOLUNTARILY SELF-ISOLATE THEIR CHILD UPON RETURN FROM THE MISSION TRIP. THE VOLUNTARY SELF-ISOLATION WILL LAST FOR 21 DAYS." AGAIN THAT STUDENT INVOLVED IS NOT PLANNING ON AFECTED NATIONS THERE. TRACI COMSTOCK TELLS ME SHE PLANS TO ASK THE SCHOOL BOARD TO LOOK INTO A PLAN, POLICY AND PROTOCOL FOR THE FUTURE. REPORTING LIVE IN TH NEWSPLEX, NICOLE GOODRICH, KETV NEWSWATCH 7.