HAZLEHURST, Miss. – Parents are alarmed after they learned their kids’ principal recently traveled to Africa.

WJTV reports a Copiah County, Mississippi school principal recently traveled to Zambia, but reportedly did not visit any country in west Africa.

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The Hazlehurst middle school principal traveled from Jackson to Chicago, then from Austria to Zambia.

Superintendent John Sullivan says the principal has been back home since Saturday and that he had the necessary screenings; the principal is out on vacation at this time.

Sullivan tells the news station the principal’s brother was having surgery in Johannesburg.

Strangely, WAPT reported the principal visited Nigeria to attend his brother’s funeral.

Regardless of the details, parents and community leaders are upset.

“Ebola is bad. I feel like he don’t even need to come back because they’re putting our children at risk,” parent Shenetha May says.

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“It is a concern to the community and it needs to be addressed. And if they say they don’t have anything in place, what we’re asking today is put something in place and make sure all the precautions are taken for our children in the community,” local NAACP president Sharley Sandifur tells WAPT.

The superintendent says the district can “only rely on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in handling this situation and the necessary measures are in place.”

That’s not the only panic going on in the state.

Three different hospitals have reported patients have showed up complaining of Ebola-like symptoms.

“Officials with the UMMC confirm they quarantined, questioned and eventually released a patient after determining that patient did not have Ebola,” according to Action News 5.

“Everyone’s alarm level is heightened and people are very concerned, but really the only people at risk are people who traveled to West Africa and then those small amount of people who were exposed to the gentleman in Texas,” said Dr. Thomas Dobbs, an Epidemiologist from the Mississippi Department of Health, tells the news station.