STRONG, Maine – Ebola fever strikes Maine.

The Press Herald reports:

A teacher at Strong Elementary School was placed on a 21-day paid leave of absence after parents told the school board they were concerned that she might have been exposed to Ebola during a trip to Dallas for an educational conference.

The teacher, who was not named, attended a seminar held by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium that is still meeting in Dallas.

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“At this time, we have no information to suggest that this staff member has been in contact with anyone who has been exposed to Ebola,” the district says in a statement published on its website.

“However, the district and the staff member understand the parents’ concerns. Therefore, after several discussions with the staff member, out of an abundance of caution, this staff member has been placed on a paid leave of absence for up to 21 days.”

The MSAD 58 school board suspended the teacher Thursday, after parents and community members expressed frustration that they were not notified that the educator would be traveling to Dallas, where the nation’s first Ebola case was diagnosed and the victim died.

“What the parents were saying last night is that, you sent (this teacher) to a potentially harmful area for exposure, and then to come back and jump into the classroom on Monday seemed a little bit reckless,” parent Matt Dexter says.

Dora Anne Mills, former head of the Maine CDC and the current vice president for clinical affairs at the University of New England, said it was highly unlikely the teacher was in any danger, according to the paper.

“Right now if I had a meeting in Dallas that I needed to take my children to, I would not hesitate,” Mills says.

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The paper points out the government is monitoring about 135 people in the city of 1.25 million.

“In this case… they didn’t want her to come back with it…I realize you have to get in contact, you have so many days or whatever. They did the right thing,” Roscoe Libby tells WCSH.

“It is an infectious disease, so we do need to be concerned and take precautions. But we can go to the extreme in some things, so,” Emily O’Donnell says.

Superintendent Erica Brouillet reportedly refused to talk to the news station.

But the newspaper quotes her as saying, “Last weekend she was packing her bags, (and) it did not seem like a risk that was a problem at that time.

“She never kept it a secret. Her kids in her classroom knew from the very beginning. But there was no intent to keep that a secret at all.”