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(WMC) - Robots are joining the fight against the spread of the Ebola virus, a potentially deadly disease.
Health officials reached out to about 100 people who had contact with Thomas Duncan, a man in Dallas, Texas, who has Ebola.
Duncan is accused of lying about having contact with people who were infected with Ebola before traveling to the United States last month.
A company based out of Memphis develops germ-killing robots that use ultraviolet lights to kill germs from surfaces at health care facilities.
Chuck Dunn is the president and CEO of TRU-D Smart UVC.
"Being able to disinfect the workers so they can care for patients is critically important," Dunn said. "The problem with manual cleaning is that housekeepers even those that are well trained and work very hard, miss a lot of spots."
In August, Dunn deployed two of his robots, named TRU-D, to hospitals in Liberia to help stop the spread of Ebola.
"At the units in Liberia, we had challenges because there are so many open doors in those health care spaces," he said.
Workers had to create walls with sheets in order for the robot to operate safely.
RU-D the robot can evaluate a space and determine exactly the amount of UV to deliver to properly disinfect an area.
Dunn says not only is TRU-D killing germs in Liberia and protecting health care workers, it's making sick people more willing to go to the hospital to seek treatment.
"Assuredness that a room would be thoroughly disinfected when that patient is removed and they have to use it for other purposes or other cases," Dunn explained.
When it comes to the Ebola case in Dallas, officials are confident the virus is contained.
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