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Texas Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan Has Died

News agencies are reporting that Thomas Eric Duncan, who was being treated for the Ebola virus at a Dallas, Texas hospital has died.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died Wednesday morning, the Dallas hospital where he was being treated said.

Duncan, 42, was given the experimental Ebola drug brincidofovir, but his family said he was doing poorly and the hospital had downgraded his condition from serious to critical. When the family visited Tuesday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, they declined to view him via video link because the last time had been too upsetting.

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