Texas
Fair Park shelter at capacity, additional shelters opening
DALLAS – Dallas faith-based nonprofit OurCalling is opening additional warming shelters to help people in Dallas experiencing homelessness stay safe in the dangerous cold.
OurCalling and Austin Street Center officials said the inclement weather center that opened Friday at Fair Park’s Grand Place reached capacity.
The City of Dallas’ Office of Homeless Solutions will open two additional shelters beginning at 3 p.m. on Sunday: Oak Lawn United Methodist Church along with Austin Street Center’s former, now-closed facility.
The Austin Street Center will house approximately 360 individuals. It is located at 2929 Hickory St.
Oak Lawn UMC will accommodate 80 individuals. It is located at 3014 Oak Lawn Ave.
Text messages will be sent to unsheltered men and women instructing them to head to any of the three facilities, using OurCalling’s proprietary Homeless Emergency Broadcast System. Then, they will be taken to the location with available spots.
The Connector Bus, transportation operated by Austin Street Center and supported by homeless agencies in the Dallas area, is running free-of-charge transit to the temporary shelters, stopping at pre-determined local homeless agencies for pick-up.
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AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has notified the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) that two Texas residents were passengers on the MV Hondius, a ship that experienced an outbreak of hantavirus while traveling in the Atlantic Ocean. The passengers left the ship and returned to the United States before the outbreak was identified.
“Public health workers in Texas have reached the two individuals, and they report they are not experiencing any symptoms and did not have any contact with a sick person while aboard the ship. They have agreed to monitor themselves for symptoms with daily temperature checks and contact public health officials at any sign of a possible illness,” the agency said on Thursday in a statement.
DSHS will not release additional personal details about the passengers to protect their privacy.
“This is not the next COVID, but it is a serious infectious disease,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness at the World Health Organization. “Most people will never be exposed to this.”
More than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing nearly two weeks after the first passenger died on board.
Health authorities on at least four continents are now tracking down and in some cases monitoring the cruise passengers who disembarked on April 24, and trying to trace others who may have come into contact with them since then.
That includes two people in Georgia who are also being monitored, according to our affiliate WTOC.
Hantaviruses are usually spread through contact with wild rodent droppings or urine. The strain in the Hondius outbreak, Andes virus, can spread from person to person in limited circumstances. It typically requires close, prolonged contact with a person who is actively sick with the disease.
It is not known to spread through casual contact such as shaking hands or being in the same room for a few minutes. There have been no documented cases where a person without symptoms spread it to someone else.
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PORTLAND (WGME) – A Portland woman who has been held in a Texas ICE facility for more than six months is reportedly set to be released by Friday.
That’s according to Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who traveled to the facility this week to demand that ICE release 19-year-old Olivia Andre.
Pingree says a federal district court judge ordered Andre to be released no later than Friday.
Andre and her family were arrested by ICE when they were seeking asylum in Canada.
DHS previously said Andre is in the United States illegally but didn’t explain why the rest of her family was released and she wasn’t.
Pingree called the conditions at the facility inhumane, and Andre’s lawyer says her physical and mental wellbeing deteriorated from not having access to clean drinking water, palatable food and appropriate medical care.
“Olivia and her family should never have been detained. The federal court ordered her release because the Trump administration had no lawful basis for detaining her,” Pingree said. “She suffered in detention for six months in violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution’s protections.”
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