As fear of Ebola virus spread further, the number of possible people who may have contracted it continues to rise with up to 1,000 people being monitored for symptoms of the dreaded disease.

As of Friday, around 1,000 people who may gained contact with the three Ebola patients in the U.S. are placed under watch.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asked people to self-monitor and report to health officials as soon as they suspect that they may have Ebola.

Among those being closely monitored are the medical workers who helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan while he was being treated at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas until he died on October 8.

Several people were sent into isolation while a larger group is being closely monitored, with their temperatures checked at least once a day.

Part of a bigger bulk of those who are at risk of having the disease is comprised of the group of passengers who may have travelled with Amber Joy Vinson, the second Dallas nurse confirmed to have Ebola, to Cleveland to arrange her wedding and returned with a low-grade fever.

So far, not a single person in the massive pool of possible Ebola patients has shown signs of the disease.

In spite of this, however, the fear of the virus continues to spread with people being sent home or rushed to the hospital due to Ebola-like symptoms such as fever and vomiting.

Several false alarms in Texas and Ohio had also been rampant since the report about a Vinson's travel emerged.

Amidst all this, travel-related issues receive the most attention with a laboratory supervisor from the Dallas hospital where Duncan was treated being sent into quarantine on Friday at a Carnival Cruise Lines ship to show "an extreme abundance of caution."

The CDC had also confirmed that two other Dallas medical workers who were asked to self-monitor had travelled abroad and returned before the travel restrictions for the Presbyterian hospital workers were even imposed.

As of Friday, the agency had made sure to contact the persons at risk of Ebola, confirming that they had not been sick since they travelled abroad.

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