The Dallas Ebola Patient Has Been Identified

The CDC yesterday confirmed the first case of ebola in the United States, and now the patient being treated in Dallas for ebola has been identified as Thomas Duncan.

Both CNN and The New York Times broke the news earlier today, citing (respectively) Duncan’s half-brother and senior Liberian government officials.

The Times provides some details on how Duncan caught the disease:

Mr. Duncan, the first person to develop symptoms outside Africa during the current epidemic, had direct contact with a woman stricken by Ebola on Sept. 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States, the woman’s parents and Mr. Duncan’s neighbors said.

Duncan helped the woman get to the hospital. She ended up being brought back home and died hours later.

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