Thomas Duncan, Ebola Patientin in US is Dead





Thomas Eric Duncan, US Ebola patient Zero who was in an isolation unit of Texas Hospital, has been reported by officials to have died.
Thomas Eric Duncan
Just like the case of Patrick Sawyer, who brought the deadly virus to Nigeria and later died, Duncan who took the virus over to America has also lost the battle to the virus.
But Sawyer, who arrived Nigeria by a passenger airplane, Duncan arrived in Dallas before he became symptomatic and was therefore not contagious during his flights from Liberia to Texas through Brussels and Dulles International Airport. But Sawyer was already symptomatic when he landed in Lagos on July 20. At that point, Sawyer, Nigeria's Patient Zero was contagious and dying.

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