DALLAS—Dallas-area taxpayers paid more than $825,000 in costs related to last fall’s Ebola outbreak that left a foreign visitor dead and two hospital nurses infected, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Most of the costs, approximately $623,000, were paid by Dallas County, according to The Dallas Morning News. The figures came from documents obtained by the newspaper under the state’s open records laws.
The city of Dallas paid more than $160,000 in direct costs, including the expense of hazardous response teams and supplies. The rest includes some school districts paying for hazardous materials responses and cleanup.
