Thomas Duncan

Changes are coming to the Dallas hospital where three people were diagnosed with Ebola. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas announced today it was upgrading medical record software to make sure nurses and doctors know the travel history of a patient...

The CDC is pushing new guidelines for healthcare workers treating Ebola patients. CDC director Tom Frieden announced three new procedures that he says should increase the margin of safety for those workers. The first is making sure the doctors and nurses receive training and show they're ready to treat people infected with the deadly disease...

Another healthcare worker in Dallas is testing positive for Ebola. A Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson says the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas worker reported a fever on Tuesday and was immediately isolated...

A Texas health care worker who was in full protective gear when they provided hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive for the virus and is in stable condition, health officials said Sunday. If the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U...

A U.S. House hearing on the Ebola crisis is underway in Texas. Opening the hearing, Texas Republican Mike McCaul called Ebola a threat to the U.S. homeland. The chairman of the Homeland Security Committee said the crisis is unfolding at an alarming pace in West Africa. ...

Family and friends are telling the life story of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States. The 42-year-old died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday morning. Duncan grew up next to a leper colony in Liberia and was forced to flee by civil war before returning years later to find the country ravaged by Ebola...

After hospital officials on Saturday said the condition of the lone Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has worsened, the woman he came to Texas to visit said she is praying for his recovery. Louise Troh said that she was not aware until a reporter told her that Thomas Eric Duncan’s condition had been deemed critical and that she had not spoken with him Saturday...

Liberian officials are planning to prosecute Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient currently isolated in a Dallas, Texas hospital. Before flying out of the country, all passengers must fill out a questionnaire that asks them if they have been around anyone with Ebola...