The first patient diagnosed of Ebola in America, Thomas Eric Duncan,who contacted the Ebola virus in mid-September in Liberia has died in a Dallas hospital.
The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, made this known to newsmen yesterday.
Duncan, who traveled from Liberia to Texas to visit family, was confirmed to have the Ebola virus last week. He was the first person diagnosed with the disease in the United States.
According to CNN, the body of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died in Texas from Ebola, will be cremated, state health officials said.
He had been in critical condition after being diagnosed with the virus in mid-September. People who had contact with the 42-year-old Liberian national are being monitored for symptoms.
Duncan, who traveled from Liberia to Texas to visit family, was confirmed to have the Ebola virus last week. He was the first person diagnosed with the disease in the United States.
According to CNN, the body of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died in Texas from Ebola, will be cremated, state health officials said.
He had been in critical condition after being diagnosed with the virus in mid-September. People who had contact with the 42-year-old Liberian national are being monitored for symptoms.
The United States is taking new measures at the airports to screen people coming in from West- Africa. The procedures at airport will include taking passengers' temperatures and handing them questionnaires.
The enhanced methods to check Ebola virus on West Africans coming into America will begin at New York's JFK airport and then to four other major international airports: Newark, Chicago, Washington Dulles and Atlanta.
A federal official says the enhanced screening will apply only to passengers arriving from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
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