Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient hospitalized in Dallas, is "fighting for his life," a top U.S. health official said on Sunday, a day after the man's condition worsened from serious to critical.
"The man in Dallas, who is fighting for his life, is the only patient to develop Ebola in the United States," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, told CNN's State of the Union.
Frieden said in the affected parts of West Africa, where Ebola has killed more than 3,400 people, the disease is spreading so rapidly it is difficult for health officials to keep up.
He said he was confident that the virus would not spread widely in the United States.
On Saturday, Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas announced Duncan's condition had gone from serious to critical.
His girlfriend and some of her relatives, meanwhile, are under quarantine at an undisclosed location after being moved from a Dallas apartment on Friday. Health officials said they are monitoring about 50 people who may have had contact with Duncan for signs of the deadly disease. Louise Troh, originally from Liberia, shares the apartment with her 13-year-old son and two nephews.
Workers in hazardous-material suits arrive last Friday at a Dallas apartment visited by Thomas Duncan to disinfect its contents. (LM Otero/Associated Press)
Duncan, a Liberian national who had been living in Monrovia, was in the Liberian city last month. The New York Times reported he might have contracted Ebola after he rode to the hospital with a pregnant 19-year-old woman in a taxi. The paper said he then helped carry the woman back home the same day, where she died hours later.
Duncan arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill a few days later. After an initial visit to the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, he was sent home, even though he told a nurse he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa. He returned to the hospital two days later, last Sunday, and has been kept in isolation ever since.
The hospital issued a news release late Friday saying that the doctor who initially treated Duncan did have access to his travel history, after all. It had said Thursday that a flaw in the electronic health records systems led to separate physician and nursing workflows, and that the doctor hadn't had access to Duncan's travel history.
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