A 2011 photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. In September 2014, Duncan became the first patient in the U.S. diagnosed with Ebola. He died today, October 8, 2014.
“The death of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States renewed questions about his medical care and whether Thomas Eric Duncan’s life could have been extended or saved if the Texas hospital where he first sought help had taken him in sooner.”
His family visited the hospital where he was treated and glimpsed him through a video camera, but said they declined to view him again because the first time was too traumatic. “What we saw was very painful. It didn’t look good,” said the man’s nephew, Josephus Weeks. [AP, HT: Matthew Wililams].