Claim: Seventeen kindergarteners in Wortham, Texas, tested positive for Ebola after being exposed to a Liberian exchange student.
Example: [Collected via email, October 2014]
National report.net claiming 17 Texas Kindergarteners contracted Ebola and shows photos of Parents being held back from their children.
Surely it is a RUMOR!
Origins: On
The unused wing of a retirement community in Wortham, Texas was transformed into a makeshift Ebola ward early this morning after 17 kindergarten students fell violently ill and tested positive for the Ebola virus. It is believed that the children were exposed to the deadly disease after sharing classrooms with a Liberian foreign exchange student. The girl had recently arrived in the states to spend a year with an American family after her own parents were displaced by war. She began vomiting excessively two week after her arrival and tested positive for Ebola shortly before the other children began displaying symptoms themselves.
An accompanying image on the site was labeled as a representative snapshot of distraught parents separated from their children:
Panicked relatives lined up outside of the former Hillsview Retirement Community in Wortham awaiting news about their sick children. One woman who was visibly distressed had to be escorted from the premises by armed security guards. Several trucks carrying 
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Last updated: 20 October 2014
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